The Jew and the Carrot (Free subscription) | 09/07/2008
Thanks to Eve Jochnowitz for this guest post. Eve teaches Yiddish, Jewish Studies, and Culinary History at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and the Culinary Center of New York - she is also a Tuv Ha’Aretz CSA member at the 14th Street Y in NYC. The rich soils of the United States are full [...]
Tracing the Tribe (Free subscription) | 15/05/2008
The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research accepted applications (the deadline is today, May 16) for six research fellowships with the Milstein Family Jewish Communal Archive Project. This three-year pilot project - "New York and the American Jewish Experience" - focuses on preservation and exploration of the Jewish communal archival heritage in the New York region. Although the deadline has passed,
History On Trial (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
I will be in conversation with Jan Gross tonight at YIVO at 7 p.m. For details click here
FailedMessiah.com (Free subscription) | 02/12/2007
The Forward has two opinion pieces on the future of the Center for Jewish History in NYC. In brief: In 2000, five Jewish historical institutions — the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, Leo Baeck Institute, Yeshiva University Museum, American Sephardi...
A Simple Jew (Free subscription) | 29/10/2007
Kesser Shem Tov - Lemberg, 1863 YIVO Institute: The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe A Waxing Wellspring: double vision CrownHeights.info: Is Starbucks Kosher? - Halachic Musings
