“We were not simply the beat-up remnants of a civilization, the victims of anti-Semitism. It was a dynamic, thriving, self-reflective and ambitious culture,” says CEO of YIVO Jonathan Brent.
The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research has completed the Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections Project (EBVOCP), a historic 7-year, $7 million initiative to process, conserve and digitize YIVO’s divided pre-war library and archival collections. In 1941, the Nazis ransacked the YIVO Institute in Vilna. Many documents were destroyed and a group of Vilna ghetto…
“We were not simply the beat-up remnants of a civilization, the victims of anti-Semitism. It was a dynamic, thriving, self-reflective and ambitious culture,” says CEO of YIVO Jonathan Brent.