Belatedly, I’m passing along word concerning a Zoom lecture that I will be giving this Wednesday, February 19th, at 1:00 p.m. Eastern time: "The YIVO Library in New York: Personal Reflections on Its History and Collections.” Details and the registration link are at: https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://yivo.org/YIVO-Library-in-NY__;!!KGKeukY!1t4rNaBTs6hV479rp_8D8pCXH6dgTWrOfo99Y9r5hO8bzjK1uTgxbYUaWszdjrwbzyuuyj6T3qTYHuJcUwv32NqxDv4PrfFIrRw$ .
Here’s a brief summary of my forthcoming talk: In the mid-1930s a group of New York Yiddishist intellectuals established the Central Jewish Library and Press Archive, whose collections became the nucleus of the YIVO Library when the Institute relocated from Vilna to New York in 1940. Over the succeeding decades, the Library grew by leaps and bounds, thanks to the dedication of its librarians and supporters. It emerged as a “collection of collections,” absorbing the extensive personal libraries of prominent Yiddish writers, scholars, and book collectors. Crucially, after 1945 the Library also recovered large portions of the Vilna YIVO’s prewar holdings along with thousands of rabbinic works from Vilna’s Strashun Library. Throughout its history, the YIVO Library has been a beehive of scholarship and bibliography, which has been fostered by such outstanding figures as Mendl Elkin and Dina Abramowicz. Zachary Zachary M. Baker [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
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