JIRS: YIVO-Institute for Jewish Research

YIVO-Institute for Jewish Research

YIVO-Institute for Jewish Research
15 West 16th Street

New York, NY 10011-6301

Phone #:(212) 246-6080
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Web Page: www.yivoinstitute.org
E-mail: yivomail@yivo.cjh.org

Program/Service Notes:

Exec. Director: Dr. Carl J. Rheins - crheins@yivo.cjh.org      Chairman: Bruce Slovin 

Conducts social and cultural research pertaining to eastern European Jewish life.  Maintains library and archives on works relating to Jewish folk life, etiology, and other topics. Trains graduate students in Yiddish, East European and American Jewish studies. Publishes books, holds conferences. For 75 years, YIVO has collected and preserved the primary records of daily life in Jewish Eastern Europe: the large and small things that comprise a culture and society, such as theater and political posters, family photographs, telephone directories from cities and towns, books in many languages (especially Yiddish), printed and recorded music, record books of Jewish organizations, family trees, folklore, and much more.

Founded in 1925 in Vilna, Poland (now Vilnius, Lithuania), as the Yiddish Scientific Institute, the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is dedicated to the history and culture of Ashkenazi Jewry and to its influence in the Americas. Headquartered in New York City since 1940, today YIVO is the world's preeminent resource center for East European Jewish Studies; Yiddish language, literature and folklore; and the American Jewish immigrant experience. The YIVO Library holds over 360,000 volumes in 12 major languages, and the Archives contains more than 23,000,000 pieces, including manuscripts, documents, photographs, sound recordings, art works, films, posters, sheet music, and other artifacts. YIVO also offers a series of cultural events and films, adult education and Yiddish language classes (including the pioneering Uriel Weinreich Program in Yiddish Language, Literature and Culture intensive summer program begun in 1968), various scholarly publications, research opportunities and fellowships.

Program Details:

Hours: Mon-Thurs, 9:00-5:30/Fri, 9-4

Person In Charge: Exec. Director:Dr. Carl J. Rheins

Eligibility: Any one can use

Fees: Accepts donations/Membership

Service Area: World

Intake Process: Just Call

Operating Agency: Independent Organization (Not classified)

This information was last updated on 11/29/2007

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Hours:	Mon-Thurs, 9:00-5:30/Fri, 9-4
Person In Charge:	Exec. Director:Dr. Carl J. Rheins
Eligibility:	Any one can use
Fees:	Accepts donations/Membership
Service Area:	World
Intake Process:	Just Call
Operating Agency:	Independent Organization (Not classified)

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