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YIVO YIVO Has Reopened to Researchers on an APPOINTMENT Leadership Forum Chair Rita K hshgu, hshgu, No. 188 IVOIVO Summer 1999 YYNEWS hHuu† pui Dr. Carl Rheins Joins YIVO Weiner and Rosovsky Honored as Executive Director enefit Dinner ollowing a six-month long BRaises $1.5 Million Fnational search, Dr. Carl Rheins, currently Special YIVO Institute Assistant to the President for for Community Relations at Adelphi Jewish University, becomes Executive Research Director of YIVO beginning in hHshagr September. Dr. Rheins, a specialist Dr. Carl Rheins in modern European history, uuhxbaTpykgfgr received his B.S. with Distinction in History from thbxyhyuy ≈ thbxyhyuy the University of Wisconsin, and his Ph.D. in hHuu† Modern European History from the State University of New York at Stony Brook (SUNY). A long-term educator and university executive, Dr. Rheins has served in many capacities at Adelphi Harvey Krueger, honoree Walter Weiner and Bruce Slovin. University, including those of Vice President and “This is my way of giving back,” said Mr. Weiner. Dean of Student Life and Development, and Vice ontinuity and community were the themes of President for External Affairs and Community CYIVO’s 74th Annual Benefit Dinner on April 27. Relations, prior to his current assignment. “After a long heroic journey, YIVO now is in its As an educator and historian, Dr. Rheins has permanent home, the Center for Jewish History,” taught courses in Modern Jewish History at SUNY YIVO Chairman of the Board Bruce Slovin said, at Stony Brook and Adelphi University; his greeting the 500 guests in the ballroom of New research and publications have focused on Jewish York’s Pierre Hotel. “Tonight we celebrate YIVO’s reactions to anti-Semitism, the Holocaust and the role as the primary bridge between the life of our history of the Jewish community in Germany. He Jewish Eastern European ancestors and the has variously served as a judge of the National growing interest in that culture among our youth.” Jewish Book Awards (Holocaust category), as a YIVO’s commitment to Yiddish and Yiddish Site Evaluation Team member for the American culture shone brightly throughout the evening. In Academy for Liberal Education and on the Board special greetings—in Yiddish—devoted YIVO of Directors of the Coalition on Higher Education board member Motl Zelmanowicz stressed the of the Jewish Community [continued on page 5] importance of Yiddish and of YIVO as the repository of Jewish life and struggle. YIVO YIVO has reopened to researchers on an APPOINTMENT Leadership Forum Chair Rita K. Levy and fellow ONLY basis. The entrance is at the Center for Jewish History, committee member Cathy Zises [continued on page 3] 15 West 16th Street. See story on Page 12. For an appointment, researchers should call (212) 246-6080. CONTENTS: Chairman’s Message . .2 Astrinsky Appointed New Board Members . .3 New Head Librarian . .13 Hirsz Abramowicz Book .4 Summer Programs . .16 50th Anniversary Edition Women’s Committee . .17 of College Yiddish . .5 Archives . .18 New Bund CD . .6 Development . .19 Dina Abramowicz Zelmanowicz on Yiddish . .6 Mission to Lithuania . .20 helps launch father’s book. YIVO Posters in Warsaw .7 New Accessions . .24 Max Weinreich Center . .8 YIVO Donors . .28 Page 4 Bruce Slovin, Dr. Walter Reich and honoree Dr. Henry Rosovsky. Fall Lecture Series . .11 Letters . .30 “There is a little ‘Bobruisk’ in each of us,” said Dr. Rosovsky. Message from the Chairman of the Board YIVO Looks to the Future YIVO is taking giant steps forward into The YIVO library and archives have now re-opened to the new millenium. First I want to researchers, by appointment only. We look forward to welcome Dr. Carl J. Rheins as YIVO’s new having our Center partners here later this year, and to the Executive Director. His broad expertise in gala Center opening scheduled for spring, 2000. higher education and administration at The first YIVO Mission trip, “From Shtetl to State,” took a Adelphi University, as well as his Ph.D. in group of 24 persons, including a college student and a 13- modern European year-old boy, to Lithuania, Moscow and Israel. The YIVO News history from SUNY at mission’s success is revealed in the travelogues beginning Stony Brook, make him on page 22. Founded in 1925 in Vilna, Poland as the Yiddish Scientific Institute and a particularly good fit I bid a fond farewell to outgoing Head Librarian Zachary headquartered in New York since 1940, with YIVO. Baker, who has anchored the YIVO library for many years YIVO is devoted to the history, society Our Annual benefit with devotion. We will miss him and wish him well in his and culture of Ashkenazic Jewry and Dinner this past April new position at Stanford University. I also want to welcome to the influence of that culture as it raised $1.5 million as our new Head Librarian, Aviva Astrinsky, who comes to us developed in the Americas. Today, YIVO stands as the preeminent center we honored our new from the University of Pennsylvania. She brings her own for East European Jewish studies; Board member Walter wealth of experience and enthusiasm to YIVO. Yiddish language, literature and Weiner and the eminent In the year 2000, YIVO will expand its outreach to folklore; and the study of American scholar, Dr. Henry younger generations, while continuing the original focus of Jewish immigration. Rosovsky with Lifetime Max Weinreich and the YIVO founders on Yiddish, Chairman of the Board Bruce Slovin Achievement Awards. It scholarship and education. Simon Dubnow’s words in 1891 Executive Director was a great evening— still resound today: “I appeal to all educated readers…to Carl J. Rheins warm, friendly and the old and the young…come join the camp of the builders Director of Development focused on the future. of history!” and External Affairs Ella Levine Director of Research Development and External Affairs Lisa Epstein Director of Finance Reclaiming Roots and Administration by Ella Levine, Development Director Assaf Astrinsky Chief Archivist “We rise by raising others, and he who bends over to aid the fallen, Marek Web stands erect.” Head Librarian —Rabbi Jacob Weinstein Aviva Astrinsky Head of Preservation YIVO’s roots are in Vilna, but very few By supporting YIVO you are ensuring Stanley Bergman signs of what our organization once stood that our community shall not disappear. Production Staff for remain there. In May, a group of 24 While the buildings may not survive, and Editor people—diverse in both age and family the rich Jewish life has vanished from Elise Fischer history—returned to what is now many cities, we are here to preserve and Yiddish Editor Lithuania. Some were retracing their teach a history unlike any other. Hershl Glasser earliest memories; others went to find the At the Benefit Dinner, I was struck by Production Editors places they knew from stories passed the number of young people who were in Jerry Cheslow, Kim Hirsh down from generation to generation. The attendance, speaking Yiddish with pride. Contributors group members shared a desire to under- We invite you to join us and become Dina Abramowicz, Zachary Baker, Nikolai stand their heritage and to reclaim it the link between the rich Jewish past and Borodulin, Chava Boylan, Krysia Fisher, Shaindel Fogelman, Leo Greenbaum, Chana exactly where it almost cost them or their the Jewish future—Me’Dor Le’Dor. Be part Mlotek, Fruma Mohrer, David Rogow, Jenny relatives their lives 50 years ago. of a community committed to preserving Romaine, Jeffrey Salant, Elisheva Schwartz, While reclaiming one’s family history and teaching East European history Yermiyahu Ahron Taub, Bella Hass made for an emotional journey, perhaps and culture, where services and rich Weinberg, Bina Weinreich what made it all the more important was historical resources are brought to a 15 West 16th Street the condition of Jewish life in Lithuania— world-wide academic community, New York, NY 10011 once the cradle of Eastern European students and the public, and where Phone: (212) 246-6080 Jewish scholarship, culture and history. genealogical services, exhibits and Fax: (212) 292-1892 www.baruch.cuny.edu/yivo/ There are very few remnants of that past. varied cultural programs open endless YIVO is one of the last testimonies to the opportunities and challenges into the rich history that was once housed there. Jewish future. 2 YIVO News Peretz and Weiner Join YIVO Board IVO is proud to announce founder of The Electric Newsstand, the largest Ythe two newest members of periodical site on the Web, among many other its Board of Directors: Martin business ventures. He is the honorary chairman of Peretz, editor-in-chief of The the Jerusalem Foundation and a long-term friend New Republic and lecturer on of YIVO and the Center for Jewish History. social studies at Harvard Mr. Weiner, honored at the 1999 YIVO Benefit University; and Walter H. Dinner with a Lifetime Achievement Award (see page 1), brings with him broad professional Dr. Martin Peretz Weiner, the newly retired Chairman and Chief Executive expertise, an enthusiasm for Jewish genealogy, Officer of Republic New York Corporation and its and a record of distinguished philanthropic principle subsidiary, Republic Bank of New York. community and professional activities. Although They were elected at the board meeting on newly retired, he remains a consultant to and YIVO News February 1, 1999. director of the Republic New York Corporation Dr. Peretz—a journalist, academic, entrepreneur and Republic Bank of New York. Mr. Weiner is a and philanthropist—is an invaluable addition trustee of the Museum of Jewish Heritage, the to YIVO. As the top editor at The New Republic New York Community Trust and the International since 1974, he has received awards for excellence Sephardic Education Foundation. from Columbia University and the University of Dr.
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