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Summer 2003 Old Demons, New Debates YIVO’S 4-Day Conference on Anti-Semitism Attracts International Scholars and Intellectuals ❖❖hshgu, hshgu, YYNEWSIVOIVO hHuu† pui YIVO Institute for Jewish Research No. 196 / Summer 2003 Old Demons, New Debates YIVO’s 4-day Conference on Anti-Semitism Attracts International Scholars and Intellectuals Some of the luminaries who gathered for YIVO’s Conference, “Old Demons, New Debates: Anti-Semitism in the West.” (L-R) Conference advisor and literary editor of The New Republic Leon Wieseltier; Canadian Member of Parliament and human rights lawyer Irwin Cotler; Iranian dissident author Azar Nafisi; Henry Louis Gates, Jr., chair of Harvard’s Afro-American and African Studies Department; Deborah E. Lipstadt, director of Jewish Studies at Emory University; Die Zeit publisher and editor Josef Joffe; and French historian and philosopher Alain Finkielkraut. s anti-Zionism a news anti-Zionism form of the aold new anti- form of sessions were simulcast to the against alarmism and noted that ISemitism? Is theI Vaticanthe old anti-Jewish? anti-Semitism? Who Is isthe overflow crowd in the adjacent American Jews, descendents ideologically responsibleVatican foranti-Jewish? the thousands Who ofis Great Hall. of persecuted European Jews, anti-Semitic acts inideologically Europe over responsible the past two for the “It is outrageous that we are count themselves as “the years? These are athousands few of the ofquestions anti-Semitic that drewacts in still discussing this foul subject,” luckiest Jews who ever lived.” 36 top-level scholars,Europe writers, over public the past intellectuals two years? remarked Leon Wieseltier, litera- and Jewish leadersThese from area dozen a few countries of the questions to ry editor of The New Republic, YIVO for a four-daythat international drew 36 top-level conference scholars, on and one of the organizers of the [continued on page 8] anti-Semitism in thewriters, West. publicThe conference intellectuals was and conference. Yet, he cautioned sponsored by the DavidJewish Berg leaders Foundation, from a dozen Nash Family Foundation,countries Open Society to YIVO Institute, for a four-day Kertész and Safdie honored Nelson Peltz, Slovininternational Foundation, conference and other on anti- Benefit Dinner Raises Nearly $1M friends of YIVO. Semitism in the West. Nobel Laureate Imre Kertész The nine panels ofThe the ninelandmark panels May of the 11-14 land- and Israeli-born architect Moshe conference, titled “Oldmark Demons,NewMay 11-14 conference, Debates: ti- Safdie. The 78th anniversary Anti-Semitism in thetled West,” “Old Demons,New were sold out. Debates: The dinner, held on May 13 at New auditorium of the Anti-SemitismCenter for Jewish in History,the West,” York’s Pierre Hotel, was at- where YIVO is heaquartered,were sold o was The filled, auditorium and the the tended by over 400 guests. It raised nearly one million dollars CONTENTS: for YIVO. Chairman’s Message . .2 Max Weinreich Center .18 “This dinner was one of a kind. Executive Director . .3 Fellowships . .19 It was a great moment for YIVO YIVO’s Lifetime Achievement Award and our supporters to have Imre Development . .4 Uriel Weinreich winners, 2002 Nobel Prize-winning EPYC . .7 Summer Program . .20 Hungarian author Imre Kertész (L) and Kertész and Moshe Safdie receive Conference Excerpts . .9 YIVO in History . .21 Israeli-born architect Moshe Safdie. Lifetime Achievement Awards,” Exhibitions . .12 Archives . .22 noted Bruce Slovin, Chairman YIVO Encyclopedia . .14 New Accessions . .23 t Y IVO’s annual banquet, of the Board. “These men — YIVO News . .15 YIVO Donors . .28 ALifetime Achievement each in his own field — have Sutzkever Album . .16 Letters . .30 Awards were bestowed upon helped to mold the world we Library . .17 Yiddish Section . .32-40 Hungarian Jewish author and live in today.” [continued on page 11] From the Chairman of the Board YIVO News Bringing History to Life s summer draws to a close I pleasure with Founded in 1925 in Vilna, Poland, as the Aam collecting my thoughts this great ac- Yiddish Scientific Institute and headquartered while preparing for the future complishment. in New York since 1940, YIVO is devoted to of YIVO. Our noble and varied Along with the history, society and culture of Ashkenazic history is daunting; and this EPYC, The Jewry and to the influence of that culture as it May we returned to the YIVO YIVO Encyclo- developed in the Americas. Today, YIVO stands tradition of debating important pedia of Jews in Bruce Slovin as the preeminent center for East European issues in the Jewish community Eastern Europe Jewish Studies; Yiddish language, literature by organizing Old Demons, New will also help lay the and folklore; and the study of the American Debates: Anti-Semitism in the groundwork for our future. Jewish immigrant experience. West, an international conference Through its vigorous scholar- ship, encompassing viewpoint Afounding partner of the Center for Jewish of scholars and public intellec- History, YIVO holds the following constituent tuals held here at YIVO. This and attention to the details of memberships: brought us into the massive • American Historical Association • the public eye history of Jew- Association for Jewish Studies • Association in ways that “Enthusiasm, new ideas, ish life and of Jewish Libraries • Council of Archives and will continue to innovative visions and culture in Research Libraries in Jewish Studies • Society benefit YIVO creative plans all require Eastern Eu- of American Archivists and • World Congress by showing its rope. In scope, of Jewish Studies. relevance in us to reach out to the The YIVO Ency- today’s world. young.” clopedia will Chairman of the Board: Bruce Slovin Although represent the Executive Director: Carl J. Rheins many of our best YIVO has friends who knew YIVO in to offer to current and future Director of Development Eastern Europe are no longer generations. It will be a building and External Affairs: Ella Levine with us, we must continue to block of home, synagogue and Director of Finance and renew and recreate the institutional libraries. It will Administration: Andrew J. Demers enthusiasm of those early mem- make our complex history avail- Dean of the Library and bers. The conference was a step able in an ultra-modern user- Senior Research Librarian: Brad Sabin Hill in the right direction. friendly form. These two projects, along with Chief Archivist: Fruma Mohrer Enthusiasm, new ideas, inno- vative visions and creative plans our many other activities, are Head Librarian: Aviva Astrinsky all require us to reach out to the what I like to call “the new face Associate Dean of the Max Weinreich young, to our children, to our of YIVO.” What is that new Center/Yiddish Editor: Hershl Glasser co-workers, to our students, to face? Partly, it is a stronger com- Editor: Elise Fischer our relatives and to our friends. mitment to improving access to YIVO has begun this process. YIVO’s priceless Library and Production Editors: We have renewed our commit- Archives collections. We will Jerry Cheslow, Michele Alperin ment to educating and training make rare collections available Contributors new generations of students, through the YIVO web site as Adina Cimet, Julie Draskoczy, Krysia Fisher, Shaindel teachers and parents through part of our effort to touch the Fogelman, Michael Glickman, Marilyn Goldfried, Leo programs such as the Educa- entire world. Greenbaum, Fern Kant, Erica Blankstein Kaplan, Solomon Krystal, Yeshaya Metal, Chana Mlotek, Allan tional Program on Yiddish With all this in mind, I ask Nadler, Majus Nowogrodzki, Yankl Salant, Charles Culture (EPYC), which pre- each and every reader of Yedies Simon and Lorin Sklamberg mieres this September in high to be a part of the NEW YIVO schools in New York City, Seattle and to encourage others to join 15 West 16th Street us financially and intellectually. New York, NY 10011-6301 and Israel. Excitement was unan- Phone: (212) 246-6080 imous among the teachers who Please come and visit YIVO; Fax: (212) 292-1892 participated in the inaugural then you will better understand EPYC teacher training seminar my excitement and pride. With www.yivo.org in June. The program will touch your support YIVO will be a e-mail to Yedies: [email protected] so many students and parents. strong, vibrant organization for It will produce a ripple effect of another 80 years. interest in YIVO and our history. I wish all of you could share my 2 YIVO News Summer 2003 From the Executive Director “Old Demons: New Debates” These remarks were delivered before the opening plenary sionate scholarship. Rather, the leadership session of YIVO’s "Old Demons, New Debates: Anti- accepted the premise that the Institute should Semitism in the West: An International Conference" “serve the folk” by doing work of widespread held at YIVO from May 11 to May 14, 2003. relevance. These commitments were carried over to the hroughout its history in interwar Europe, United States when, at the outbreak of World War “TYIVO was often caught up in the fierce II, the center of the YIVO was transferred to New Dr. Carl J. Rheins competition” among the varied political move- York City. In the very first issue of Yedies fun YIVO ments of the day. In the 1920s, the Institute’s (September 1943) Weinreich wrote, “The YIVO position was to foster communal engagement and has become a meeting place for those intellectuals to pursue work of contemporary relevance “with- who have preferred to seek knowledge through out aligning itself with a specific political camp, research rather than to accept preconceived ideas which it feared would compromise its intellectual at their
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