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The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is dedicated to the preservation and study of the history and culture of East European Jewry worldwide. We are the home of the foremost archives and library on this history and the presenter of acclaimed exhibitions, concerts, and lectures.
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The YIVO Library has nearly 400,000 volumes in all European...
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The YIVO archives contains more than 23 million original...
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The YIVO Archives and Library represent the single largest...
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YIVO (Yiddish: ייִוואָ, pronounced) is an organization that preserves, studies, and teaches the cultural history of Jewish life throughout Eastern Europe, Germany, and Russia as well as orthography, lexicography, and other studies related to Yiddish.
Learn about the history and culture of Jews in Eastern Europe from the YIVO Encyclopedia, the only resource of its kind. Explore articles, maps, photos, and more on this website.
YIVO is a non-profit organization that preserves and studies the history, language, and culture of East European Jews. Founded in 1925 in Vilna, it moved to New York in 1940 and holds the world's largest collection of Yiddish books, documents, and artifacts.
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