Guide to the YIVO Archives

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Author(s)Yivo Institute For Jewish Research
DescriptionYIVO, founded in 1925 in Wilno (Vilnius), is a centre for scholarship on East European Jewish history, language and culture. During the 1920s and 1930s a network of YIVO affiliates was established across Europe and the Americas including one in New York,. The latter became the Institute's new home when YIVO was re-established in 1940 by members of its board who had escaped from Nazi-occupied Europe. This is the first repository-level finding aid to the archives (over 1,400 collections) of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in New York. It includes a brief history of the institute and archives, descriptive entries on each collection, a detailed index of key words and subject headings, and information on the archive's basic services.
Publication Date31 October 1997
PublisherRoutledge
Pages480
ISBN 139780770000000
ISBN 10765601303
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