Correspondence with YIVO Institute for Jewish Research

Identifier
WL3000/9/1/1600
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 110106
Dates
23 Apr 1951 - 19 Dec 1963
Level of Description
Collection
Languages
  • German
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Creator(s)

  • Yivo Institute for Jewish Research
  • Yad Vashem-Yivo Documentary Projects

Biographical History

Established in the then Polish city of Vilnius in 1925, the Yivo Institute for Jewish Research is an organisation for the study of Eastern European Jewry and the Yiddish language. Since 1940 its headquarters are in New York.

Scope and Content

Correspondence primarily regarding the procurement and sending of published as well as unpublished material. The latter includes, for instance, a YIVO request for Warsaw Ghetto photographs from The Wiener Library’s photo archive (1962). A further recurring subject is The Wiener Library’s involvement in a joint documentary project of YIVO and Yad Vashem, a bibliographical series on published and archival source material on the Holocaust starting in 1954.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

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People

  • Zylberberg, Michael
  • Friedman, Philip

Subjects

Places

  • United States
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