{"product_id":"yiddish-scholarship-comes-to-america-the-yivo-institute-at-100-paperback","title":"Yiddish Scholarship Comes to America: The Yivo Institute at 100 - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKalman Weiser\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eA century-long effort to preserve eastern European culture.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis comprehensive history of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research--a groundbreaking American Jewish cultural organization, library, and research center--details its longstanding efforts to preserve eastern European Jewish culture during a century of genocide and mass emigration. Founded in 1925, YIVO was a global organization with headquarters in Vilna until World War II. It represented the symbolic pinnacle of building a modern, secular Yiddish culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYet post-war, YIVO struggled to establish itself on a new continent, to reclaim what had survived of its Vilna collections, to document a lost world, and to impart the value of eastern European Jewish history and culture to new generations. Through the institute's steady commitment to establishing itself in New York and beyond, Yiddish language learning and scholarship became a crucial part of post-Holocaust Jewish life in a time when Hebrew was increasingly promoted in Jewish communities. Drawing on extensive archival research and oral histories, Weiser focuses on the transitional period of the YIVO Institute from 1940 to 1970 and showcases how the institute carved its own path toward scholarship and public engagement that remained true to its founding ethos--\"from the folk, for the folk, and with the folk\"--while acclimating to American society and mainstream Jewish culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis comprehensive history of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research--a groundbreaking American Jewish cultural organization, library, and research center--details its longstanding efforts to preserve eastern European Jewish culture during a century of genocide and mass emigration. Through YIVO's steady commitment to establishing itself in New York and the broader United States, Yiddish language learning and the study of eastern European Jewish history and culture became a crucial part of post-Holocaust Jewish life. Focusing on the institution's transitional period from 1940 to 1970, the book explores how YIVO charted a course for scholarship and public engagement that remained true to its founding ethos--\"from the folk, for the folk, and with the folk\"--while acclimating to American society and mainstream Jewish culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKalman Weiser is the Silber Family Professor of Modern Jewish Studies and director of the Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies at York University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eJewish People, Yiddish Nation: Noah Prylucki and the Folkists in Poland\u003c\/i\u003e, which won a Canadian Jewish Book Award. Weiser is also the coeditor of several works, including\u003ci\u003e Czernowitz at 100: The First Yiddish Language Conference in Historical Perspective\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eKey Concepts in the Study of Antisemitism\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 356\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.98 x 9.01 x 6.07 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 24, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56558616838449,"sku":"9780814353394","price":66.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1004\/9532\/7537\/files\/OHy64vtVww9780814353394.webp?v=1790808730","url":"https:\/\/mitchellofficial.com\/products\/yiddish-scholarship-comes-to-america-the-yivo-institute-at-100-paperback","provider":"MITCHELL","version":"1.0","type":"link"}