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YIVO Institute for Jewish Research

LC control no.n 79122376
Descriptive conventionsrda
Corporate name headingYIVO Institute for Jewish Research
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Variant(s)YIVO (Organization)
YIVO (Institut evreĭskikh issledovaniĭ)
IVO-Institut evreĭskikh issledovaniĭ (Nʹi︠u︡-Ĭork)
ИВО Институт Еврейских Исследований
יווא
ייִדישער װיסנשאַפטלעכער אינסטיטוט
יידישער וויסנשאפטלעכער אינסטיטוט ־ ייווא
יידישער וויסענשאפטליכער אינסטיטוט
ייווא
ייווא אינסטיטוט פאר יידישער וויסענשאפט
ייווא - יידישער וויסנשאפטלעכער אינסטיטוט
ײדישער װיסנשאַפטלעכער אינסטיטו
See alsoPredecessor: Yidisher ṿisnshafṭlekher insṭiṭuṭ
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Absorbed corporate body: Yidisher ṿisnshafṭlekher insṭiṭuṭ. Ameriḳaner opṭeyl
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Associated countryUnited States Lithuania
Associated placeVilnius (Lithuania)
LocatedNew York (N.Y.)
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Found inDokumenty po istorii i kulʹture evreev ... 1997: p. 3 (IVO-Institut evreĭskikh issledovaniĭ (Nʹi︠u︡-Ĭork); YIVO Institute for Jewish Research (New York))
Homes of the Past, 2024: CIP galley (YIVO established in Vilna, 1925; moved to New York during World War II; YIVO was originally known in English as the Yiddish Scientific Institute; the more recent English version of its name is the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research)
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research website, viewed February 22, 2024: (The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research was founded by scholars and intellectuals in Vilna, Poland (now Vilnius, Lithuania), in 1925 to document and study Jewish life in all its aspects: language, history, religion, folkways, and material culture; World War II and the Holocaust forced YIVO's relocation to New York in 1940; YIVO has individual members all over the world; it has two sister organizations in Chicago and Argentina, which operate as independent institutions)
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