Guide to the YIVO Archives

YIVO, founded in 1925 in Wilno (Vilnius), is a center for scholarship on East European Jewish history, language, and culture. During the 1920s and early 1930s a network of YIVO affiliates was established across Europe and the Americas including one in New York, which became the institute''s new home when YIVO was reestablished in 1940 by members of its board who had escaped from Nazi-occupied Euro...