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Director/Person-in-Charge: Jonathan Brent Executive Director & CEO
Principal Staff Members:
Melissa Cohen, Chief Development Officer
Shelly Freeman,Chief of Staff
Robert Wagman, Chief Financial Officer
Stefanie Halpern, Director of Archives
Year Established:1925
Staff: Salaried - 35; Volunteer - 20
Type of Organization: 501(c)(3)
Mission: To preserve, study, share and perpetuate knowledge of the history and culture of East European Jewry worldwide.
Services: YIVO is a research institute, an institution of higher learning, an adult education organization, a cultural organization, and a world-renowned library and archive. The Institute is dedicated to the preservation and study of the history and culture of East European Jewry worldwide. For nearly a century, YIVO has pioneered new forms of Jewish scholarship, research, education, and cultural expression. The YIVO Archives contains more than 23 million original items and YIVO’s Library has over 400,000 volumes—the single largest resource for such study in the world.
Selected Publications:
Yivo Periodicals:
Yedies fun yidishn visnshaftlekhn institut (Warsaw, Vilna, and New York: 1925-2013).
YIVO Annual of Jewish Social Science (later YIVO Annual) (New York: 1946-1996).
Yivo bleter (Vilna and New York: 1931-2003).
Philological Publications:
Filologishe shriftn (Vilna: 1926-1929).
Yidishe shprakh (New York, 1941- present).
Yivo Publications:
Hundert, Gershon, ed. The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe. New Haven: YIVO and Yale University Press, 2008.
Holocaust Publications:
Mendelsohn, Shloyme. Der vidershtand in varshaver geto. New York: YIVO, 1944. Trunk, Isaiah. Lodzher geto. New York: YIVO, 1961.
Weinreich, Max. Hitler’s Professors. New York: YIVO, 1946.
YIVO-Yad Vashem Bibliographical Series. 15 vols. New York and Jerusalem: YIVO and Yad Vashem, 1960-1978.
