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ideologically responsible for theEurope over the past two years?These are a few of the questions that drew 36 top-level scholars,Jewish leaders from a dozencountries to YIVO for a four-dayinternational conference on anti-Semitism in the West. mark May 11-14 conference, ti-Anti-Semitism in the West,Ówere sold o The auditorium thesessions were simulcast to theoverflow crowd in the adjacentGreat Hall. ChairmanÕs Message . . . .2 Executive Director . . . . . .3Development . . . . . . . . . . .4EPYC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7Conference Excerpts . . . .9Exhibitions . . . . . . . . . . . .12YIVO News . . . . . . . . . . .15Sutzkever Album . . . . . .16 No. 196 / Summer 2003 YIVOÕs 4-day Conference on Anti-Semitism hshgu, Y YIVOÕs Lifetime Achievement Award Some of the luminaries who gathered for YIVOÕs Conference, ÒOld Demons, New Debates: Anti-Semitism in the West.Ó (L-R) ConferenAzar Nafisi; Henry Louis Gates, Jr., chair of HarvardÕs Afro-American and African Studies Department; Deborah E. Lipstadt, dire Semitism? Is the Vatican anti-Jewish? Who isideologically responsible for the thousands of anti-Semitic acts in Europe over the past twoyears? These are a few of the questions that drewand Jewish leaders from a dozen countries toYIVO for a four-day international conference onanti-Semitism in the West. The conference wassponsored by the David Berg Foundation, Nashfriends of YIVO. The nine panels of the landmark May 11-14conference, titled ÒOld Demons,New Debates:Anti-Semitism in the West,Ó were sold out. Theauditorium of the Center for Jewish History,where YIVO is heaquartered, was filled, and the while preparing for the future of YIVO. Our noble and variedMay we returned to the YIVOby organizing , an international conferencetuals held here at YIVO. Thisbrought us intofriends who knew YIVO inEastern Europe are no longernew and recreate thebers. The conferen
2 ce was a stepin the right direction. vat
ce was a stepin the right direction. vative visions and creative plansall require us to reach out to theyoung, to our children, to ourour relatives and to our friends. YIVO has begun this process. have renewed our commit-teachers and parents throughprograms such as the Educa-tional Program on YiddishCulture (EPYC), which pre-mieres this September in highschools in New York City, Seattlein June. The program will touchso many students and parents. It will produce a ripple effect ofinterest in YIVO and our history.I wish all of you could share mypleasure withthis great ac-Eastern Europegroundwork for our future.Through its vigorous scholar-culture inepresent thebest YIVO hasto offer to current and futureable in an ultra-modern user-These two projects, along withour many other activities, areof YIVO.Ó What is that newface? Partly, it is a stronger com-mitment to improving access toArchives collections. We willmake rare collections availablethrough the YIVO web site aspart of our effort to touch theentire world.each and every reader of us financially and intellectually.Please come and visit YIVO;my excitement and pride. Withyour support YIVO will be astrong, vibrant organization for Founded in 1925 in Vilna, Poland, as theddish Scientific Institute and headquarteredin New York since 1940, YIVO is devoted to the history, society and culture of AshkenazicJewry and to the influence of that culture as itdeveloped in the Americas. Today, YIVO standsas the preeminent center for East EuropeanJewish Studies; Yiddish language, literatureand folklore; and the study of the AmericanHistory, YIVO holds the following constituent¥ American Historical Association ¥Association for Jewish Studies ¥ Association of Jewish Libraries ¥ Council of Archives andResearch Libraries in Jewish Studies ¥ Societyof American Archivists and ¥ World Congress Bruce Slovinand External Affairs: Andrew J. De
3 mersFruma MohrerAssociate Dean of the Ma
mersFruma MohrerAssociate Dean of the Max Weinreich Center/Yiddish Editor: Jerry Cheslow, Michele AlperinAdina Cimet, Julie Draskocz Krysia Fisher, Shaindellman, Michael Glickman, Marilyn Goldfried, Leo Greenbaum,FerSolomon Krystal, Yeshaya Metal, Chana Mlotek,AllanNadler, Majus Nowogrodzkiankl Salant, CharlesSimon and Lorin Sklamberg15 West 16th StreetNew York, NY10011-6301 : efischer@yivo.cjh.or g Bruce Slovin From the Chairman of the Board Bringing History to Life ÒEnthusiasm, new ideas,young.Ó These remarks were delivered before the opening plenarysession of YIVOÕs "Old Demons, New Debates: Anti-Semitism in the West: An International Conference"held at YIVO from May 11 to May 14, 2003. hroughout its history in interwar Europe,in the fiercements of the day. In the 1920s, the InstituteÕsto pursue work of contemporary relevance Òwith-which it feared would compromise its intellectualintegrity.ÓStill, among YIVOÕs earlyincluded Albert Einstein, Sig-mund Freud, and GermanEduard Bernstein, Òtherewere two distinct Ñ andcamp succeeded in imposing its program and the Institute proceeded along a middle ground,addressing politically charged issues whileWhile Dr. Max Weinreich, YIVOÕs founder andlongtime Director of Research, urged his col-leagues to stay outside of the political struggles of the day, by the 1930s, with Fascism on the rise,YIVO shifted its focus from literary concerns tofronting the danger of native and foreign anti-Semitism. Weinreich urged the need for a collec-tive and interdisciplinary approach with research-ers in different fields working together to bringproblem.In 1938, three years before the Nazis would oc-cupy Vilna, Weinreich wrote, ÒOur goal is to helpour people in the difficult struggle for its very ex-Based on the available records, it appears that by1939 none of YIVOÕs leaders continued to arguefor YIVO to remain solely a bastion of dispas-sio
4 nate scholarship. Rather, the leadership
nate scholarship. Rather, the leadershipaccepted the premise that the Institute shouldÒserve the folkÓ by doing work of widespreadThese commitments were carried over to theUnited States when, at the outbreak of World WarII, the center of the YIVO was transferred to Nework City. In the very first issue of (September 1943) Weinreich wrote, ÒThe YIVO who have preferred to seek knowledge throughsearch rather than to accept preconceived ideasthe Jew the opportunity to acquire self-knowledgeand of providing the Jewishin the struggle for survival.Ótration camps already liber-the opening session of the YIVO Annual Con-ference, which was held in the Hunter Collegesession, Max Weinreich read from a paper entitledÒThe YIVO Faces the Post-War WorldÓ: The YIVO is ready to do its share, it wantsto elucidate and strengthen the fundamen-It seeks to aid American Jewry in under-it to the advantage of the group and theThe underlying premise of this conference is that an understanding of the worldwide revival of anti-Semitism is a pre-condition to effectivelycombating it. To that end, 36 scholars, public intel-lectuals, and community leaders from Israel, Eng-land, Mexico, France, Germany, Poland, Holland,ounds of discussions yet organized in NorthAmerica on the resurgence of Jew-hatred.It is in this spirit that I am honored to open thisinternational conference, ÒOld Demons, NewDebates: Anti-Semitism in the West,Ó YIVOÕs firstmajor international conference since 1935. Dr. Carl J. Rheins Cecile E. Kuznitz, ÒThe Origins of Yiddish Scholarship and the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research,Ó (unpublished doctoraldissertation), Stanford University, 2000, p. 205.Dr. Max Weinreich, as quoted in ÒYIVO Conference Outlines Broad Program,Ó News of the YIVO/Yedies fun YIVOFebruary 1945, p. 1. eturning from YIVOÕs 2003 Heritage Missionin June, I felt inspired and hopeful. Contem-plating how Jewish lif
5 e was so brutally erased the Baltic repu
e was so brutally erased the Baltic republics are being reborn, underscoredthe importance of our work and its relevance toWhile we cannot ignore the lost world, we alsomust witness and nourish the Jewish future, whichincludes knowledge and affection for Hebrew and Jewish traditions. As Dr. Evgeny Satanovsky,Chairman of the Moscow Jewish community,pointed out, ÒThe re-creation of European Yiddish culture. The remaining Jews are committed to rebuilding Jewish life in theirAs the Jews of Russia and the Baltics reconnectwith their glorious past and find energy andcreativity in their roots, so too, do we. YIVO ismore than an archival resource center for EastEuropean culture; it seeks to enliven our heritageHere, I refer to the 2003 honorees at the Inter-national WomenÕs Division Luncheon who areensuring our cultureÕs vibrancy and vitality.Despite their different backgrounds, commitmentswill to support and preserve our culture. Ourcipients Ñ Ruth Gruber (Lifetime Achievementard), Vera Stern (Vilna Award), Jacob Waisbordand Myra Treitel (Award)Bernice P. Slutzman (Award)are a very distinguished and committed group,Regardless of our roots, the cultural milieu inwhich we were raised, our level of assimilationever, as the past becomes more distant, prewarJewish life in Eastern Europe is fading into stories,epeated from generation to generation. We arelosing touch with the reality behind those stories.Imre Kertsz, one of this yearÕs Lifetime Achieve-ment Award honorees at our 78th Anniversarywriting. He ensures that our culture will beavailable for future generations to study andflect upon. Moshe Safdie, also the recipient ofthe Lifetime Achievement Award, uses architec-ture to shape the spaces in which people live inthe United States, Israel, Canada and Europe. Bothof these prodigious and creative artists representthe aspects of Jewish culture andhistory that we so greatly ch
6 erish. Our honorees at both events arepr
erish. Our honorees at both events arepreserve and enrich our culture.spire other generations. The commitment tocontinuity is best expressed through YIVOÕs most ambitious projects: and EPYC, the Educational Program on YiddishCulture, to be introduced to Jewish and non-Jewish high schools in September, 2003. Perhapsthis is YIVOÕs most important mission. Development by Ella Levine, Director of Development and External Affairs 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY10011-6301I want to help YIVO preserve our Jewish heritage.$54 Ð You will receive the YIVO newsletter, in Yiddish and English.$100 Ð Aset of postcards from YIVOÕs $180 Ð Aset of holiday cards from YIVOÕs$360 Ð Anew Yiddish recording.$500 Ð Abook from YIVO.$1000 and more Ð Abook from YlVO and a set of YIVO holiday cards, and a listing in Other.Enclosed is my contribution of $.Please charge my gift to:MasterCard Card No. Exp. DatePlease make checks payable to YIVO Institute forJewish Research. Your gift is tax deductible. ommitment to preserving the culture of EastEuropean Jews for future generations was themessage of the 3rd Annual International WomenÕseon, entitled ÒAHeritage Journey Ñ LeÕdor,Ó drew more than 160 people to the Centerfor Jewish History to honor Dr. Ruth Gruber, VeraStern, Jacob Waisbord, Myra Treitel and Bernice P.Slutzman. Chaired by Caren Constantiner and Co-chaired by Susan Oppenheim and Carol A. Stahl,members of the YIVO Leadership Forum, theGruber, recipient of the , is best known for escorting 1,000 Worldar II refugees from Europe to America in a co-while serving as Special Assistant to Harold Ickes,the Secretary of the Interior. She is an acclaimedjournalist and author and was honored for her con-stant vigilance and dedication to Jewish culture. Stern, recipient of the ilna Awardcauses. As president of the American-Israel Cul-tural Foundation (AICF) and throughout her
7 40years of leadership, she has engender
40years of leadership, she has engendered manyartistic innovations and successes. To honor herilna roots, she works to preserve Vilna and is committed to maintaining its culture. ÒTo be honored by my friends is a special moment forme,Ó Stern noted, after an introduction by heraisbord and Treitel (father-daughter), recipi-plify dedication and love for culture andhow it is shared between generations.ÒWe are so pleased to be here. It is justwonderful to be honored together withmy father,Ó Myra Treitel said after shewas introduced by Stuart, one of herYIVO Ñ his student card from Vilna,dated April 8, 1940, is reproduced on the back of each program.ÓSimilarly, Slutzman, recipient of the, and Vice Presidentof The New Cracow Friendship Society, credits herfather, Roman Weingarten, as her inspiration infrom Cracow. Weingarten spoke in brief remarksabout how proud he is of his daughter and of hercommitment to continuity.and food critic, entertained the crowd with storiesof her childhood and spoke about the role thatas Honorary Chair, as an Òimportantto reconnect people to Jewish culture.Ó YIVOÕs 3rd Annual Internationalsupport of the Educational Program oniddish Culture (EPYC), a comprehen-debut in September of this year. (See omenÕ s Luncheon Three Generations Celebrate TogetherHonoree Vera Stern flanked by her grandsons Noah (L) andEytan Stern-Weber. father, Roman Weingarten.Eta Wrobel, Chair, and FanyaGottesfeld Heller, President, YIVOÕs International WomenÕs (L-R) Mark Treitel, Jacob Waisbord, Myra Treitel, Dr. Hermaneitel and Stuart Treitel. Caren Constantiner. yra Treitel glows when her father talks abouthis life in Europe and the United States. Byage 28 Jacob Waisbord had made his way fromarsaw to Vilna, across Siberia to Japan, and final-ly to Seattle, Washington, on March 31, 1941, al-aisbord continued on to New York City where,in January 1942, he married Adele Suk
8 enik. Notyet a citizen and knowing very
enik. Notyet a citizen and knowing very little English, Wais-bord was drafted into the United States Army, inwhich he served more than three years.Returning to New York after the war, he workedas a linotype operator and proofreader, first for . An activeber of the printersÕ union, he became treas-urer of the Yiddish Typographical Union. Later hewas elected treasurer of the WorkmenÕs Circle andhe still serves as financial secretary at age 89. Thewho had been WaisbordÕs instructor in Left PoaleZion in Poland. Ringelblum, the Warsaw Ghettohistorian, encouraged people from all walks of lifeto write and tell of the treatment of Jews in theghetto as part of the "Oneg Shabbat" resistancegroup. Ôgive backÕ to the Jewish community at large.ÓaisbordÕs connection to YIVO dates to his yearsin Europe, during which YIVO provided the op-portunity to study almost any topic in Yiddish. According to Myra, her father continues to sup-port YIVO because it is the only organization thatpreserves andJews of prewarEurope Ñ livestunity, Zionism, the use of the Yiddish languageand more. His YIVO membership card from Vilna,dated April 8, 1940, was reproduced in Recently, Jacob Waisbord established a charitablesignificant contribution to YIVO while providingalso assured that YIVO will continue to receivefuture support to help it sustain the chain ofJewish continuity.ÒI say, ÔdonÕt burn with a big flame that may dieout,ÕÓ Waisbord commented. ÒIt is better to burnwith a small steady flame that burns forever!Óaisbord and Treitel were honored at theInternational WomenÕs Luncheon where theyard (see page 5).eitel explained that her parents taught her threemajor lessons: to honor those who came beforevalues and the Jewish mission. Her fatherÕsthree objectives. he Gaon Society, named for the 18th century RabbiElijah Ben Solomon Zalman Ñ the Vilna Gaon Ñ wasestablished to recognize and thank YIVO frien
9 ds anddonors who have created a legacy f
ds anddonors who have created a legacy for YIVO in their willsor estate plans, or through a charitable gift annuity orcharitable trust.Like the Vilna Gaon, who was known for his vastfriends understand and appreciate the role YIVO plays in preserving our heritage for future generations. Bysupporting YIVO you advance Jewish scholarship andperpetuate the culture, language and history of EasternEuropean Jewry. To learn how you can help YIVO whileat (917) 606-8293. If you have already included YIVO inthe members of The Gaon Society. Gene and Mildred ForrellGeorge HechtJacob Waisbord Milton WeinerRita Winningham Jacob W aisbord and Myra T reitel Jacob Waisbord and his daughter Myra YIVO Gaon Society Founders hshgu, pui hHuu bun' 691 zungr 3002 Debut T raining 3-Day Seminar LaunchesEPYC Curriculuma three-dayseminar, officiallyProgram oniddish Culturefrom public andschools aroundteachers are thefirst group ofwere led byEast European culture and history. Starting June23, the Fellows attended lectures on history,literature, music, theater and Holocaust studies.Their afternoons were devoted to intensivedissected, reviewed and evaluated under theguidance of Dr. Robert Shapiro, history instructorlot program, starting in September. They will actas a sounding board for EPYC, discussing thematerial in their classrooms. search,Ó said Steven Solomon, principal of theEast Brunswick Jewish Center school, one of thelargest synagogue schools in New Jersey. ÒWithoutThe generosity of many individuals and foun-YIVO Leadership Forum, made the trainingfirst phase of this program. The EPYCFellowseceived a review version. The Fellows came from the United States,trum: public schools; private Jewish day schools,including orthodox, conservative and reform; aswell as special afternoon Jewish religious schoolprograms. EPYC fundraising has also entered a new phasethis phase, the texts will also be t
10 rans-lated into Hebrew, Spanish and Russ
rans-lated into Hebrew, Spanish and Russian for globalAt the closing ceremony Dr. Carl Rheins, YIVOExecutive Director, highlighted the revolutionarycharacter of the program.ÒEPYC is a way forYIVO to return to its instructional mission,Ó henoted. ÒThe program is a unique curriculum forJewish Education in America.Ó Then he presentedflowers to Dr. Adina Cimet, the EPYC Director,first time at the Seminar. service in the Polish army, sitting infront of a portrait of Ber Borochov, Eva L. Abbamonte Harrison High School Harrison, NYRochelle AnziskaSamuel H. Wang Holliswood, NY Rabbi Jonathan Maimonides SchoolBrookline, MA Shira Breuer Pelech Religious Jerusalem, Israel Experimental High School Mira CohenBeverly Hills High SchoolLos Angeles, CA Paula Cohen Abraham Joshua Heschel School New York, NY Sameya GewirtzTemple Beth AmSeattle, WA Rochel LichtBeis Yaacov AcademyBrooklyn, NYRebeca MareynaYavneh SchoolMexico City inoam PattCongregation Agudath Israel West Caldwell, of West EssexNJCynthia PetermanCharles E. Smith Rockville, MD Jewish Day School Abraham RabensteinIsrael Henry Beren HighBaltimore, MD Shifra RabensteinShalheves High School for GirlsBaltimore, MDGaby ReissAmit Gush Dan Technological Ramat Gan, High SchoolIsrael Shelly RossoffMilken Community Day SchoolLos Angeles, CA Dr. Robert ShapiroRamazNew York, NYSteve SolomonEast Brunswick Jewish CenterEast Brunswick, Miriam WielgusYeshivah of FlatbushBrooklyn, NY EPYC Teacher Seminar Fellows Old Demons During the conference, Britishhistorian Simon Schama re-ceived disturbing news relatedback home. ÒMy great-aunt andmy great-uncle were among thetwo years, French historianMoslems and the progressiveIslamist hatred of the Jews hasfound, if not outright approval,ÒPhysical acts are committedby Moslems, but the rhetoriccomes from the European politi-cal elite,Ó declared Mortimer B.Zuckerman, president of theConference of
11 Presidents ofMajor Jewish Organizations
Presidents ofMajor Jewish Organizations andSemitism is the proverbialThe speakers were almostAmericans and Europeans, withothers from Israel, Iran andand its spread to the West was a repeated theme. Daniel Gold-HitlerÕs Willingfrom Europe to the Middle East,where Islamic anti-Semitism wasexported back to Europe.Ó ÒThe first step to overcomingthis plague and to the treatmentof this disease which threatensPeople,Ó contended HebrewUniversity Professor RobertWistelentless, implacable exposureof its roots, and that has been theraison dÕtre of this conference.Óconfer- ence throughout its fourdays,Ó remarked Bruce Slovin,Chairman of YIVO. ÒWe haveThe conference was organizedin the wake of resurgent anti-Semitism in Europe followingthe attack on the World TradeCenter, which took on newurgency with the Iraq war. TheConference Committee wascomposed of YIVO NationalBoard members Joseph Green-berger, Max Gitter, MartinPeretz, Bruce Slovin and Dr.Arnold Richards, as well as Dr.Leon Botstein, President of BardCollege. Audio of the conferencecan be heard on the web site ofwww.cjh.org/about/old_demons.htm YIVO Executive Director Dr. Carl Rheins YIVO National Board member Martin Peretz, Irwin Cotler, Fiamma Nirenstein and David Pryce-Jones. Islamic schools in New York and [continued from page 1] 9 he taxonomy of present-day anti-Semitism is ominously large. Thereare religious varieties and secular varie-varieties and new varieties. There is the anti-Semitism ofof Muslims, which comes in many forms. There is the anti-Semitism of the Right, in Europe and in the United States,still stubbornly blaming the Jews forcompliment); and there is the anti-Semitism of the Left,most recently seeking shelter (and finding it) in the anti-globalization movement, which has presided over a revivaland Americanism. And there is the anti-Semitism thatThis is, I think, the most dangerous anti-Semitismof
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themwho are consigned by anti-Semites of one kind or anotheraddress for Jews on the run, just a safer haven. I believe,rather, that the United States represents a revolution inJewish history, a country that is Ñ in its philosophicalfoundations and in its political practices Ñ structurallyhospitable to us. We cannot be pilloried as a state within cannot be excoriated for difference in a society in which difference is the substance of sameness. use the Zionist terms, I would define the AmericanOf course I do not mean to contend that there is no anti-Semitism in America. Not at all. But the story of Jew-hatredin America differs profoundly from the story of Jew-hatredin Europe. It is a scandal to be refused admission to apogrom. And it is not only the virulence of anti-Semitismmacy, too, has been diminished. In fact, its legitimacy hasbeen altogether repudiated. The remarkable fact about the American Jewish campaign against anti-Semitism inAmerica, like the African American campaign againstracism in America, is that it is made in the name of Amer-Jews, is the anomaly here. David I. Kertzer ne might think that today, in the wakeof both Vatican Council II and PopeJohn Paul IIÕs call for repentance andtican-supervised journal would recognize and apologizefor the pernicious role it played in the development ofmodern anti-Semitism. What we now see, however, is justThe VaticanÕs continuing effort to distance itself from anyanti-Semitism. In this account, these are two very differentphenomena, and while some in the Church had unfortu-nately participated in religious anti-Judaism, this wascompletely different from modern anti-Semitism that theChurch had nothing to do with. ÉThe problem that the Vatican has encountered in clingingginal rationale Ñ that the ChurchÕs hostile characteriza-tions of the Jews were based on negative religious imagesOne only has to read the pages of t
13 he Vatican-supervisedin the years from 1
he Vatican-supervisedin the years from 1880 to 1939 to see that itthings they were collectively responsible for socially,Something very troubling is going on today in theatican. Those Catholics Ñ from simple laypeople tocardinals Ñ who have tried to get the Church to come to terms with its role in spreading anti-Semitism in the past have been subjected to strong sanction. Even thosewho have tried to offer a different interpretation of ÒWeRememberÓ are now being repudiated. The latter includes Cardinal Edward Cassidy himself,Nov. 9, 1998, speech, Cardinal Cassidy said: ÒIn making aChurches and the anti-Semitism of the Nazis, ÒWeRememberÓ does not intend to deny the relationshipbetween these two evils.Ó Yet this is exactly what thetican-approved The Vatican is here playing with fire Ñ for there are stillparts of the Roman Catholic Church in no way resigned toaccepting the lessons of the Second Vatican Council. In-deed, for the fringe groups on the right of the Church whoject the reforms of the Second Vatican Council, there is noclearer litmus test than continued demonization of the Jews.Excerpts from Talks Delivered at the YIVO ConferenceÒOld Demons, New Debates: Anti-Semitism in the WestÓ (Please turn to page 10 for additional conference excerpts.) YIVO News Summer 2003 Lost Tribe of Israelhy are the Jews like the fruitof the olive tree? ask therabbis in the Midrash. ÒBecause,Ó they answer, Òasall liquids mix with each other, but the oil of theGentiles. É And as the olive does not yield its oilunless it is crushed, so Israel does not return toGod unless it is crushed by affliction.ÓBeingHistorically, this is the normative Jewish point ofview. Classical Zionism, too, viewed the Jews asHere is Leo PinskerÕs lished 14 years before HerzlÕs certain justification in the psychic life of humanity,The misfortunes of the Jews are due, above all, totheir lack of desire for nat
14 ional independence . . . Óferently from
ional independence . . . Óferently from rabbinic Judaism, which made itmore optimistic about overcoming them. And yetthere is in all self-blame a peculiar sort of opti-mism that helps to explain why, starting with thebiblical prophets, there has been so much of itamong Jews; for if you are the cause of your ownsuffering, you have the ability to rectify it. . . clared proudly and defiantly: ÒDo not blame theÒBecause mankind will always have fears, hatredand phobias, there will always be anti-Semitism,cially great for those of us who have believed, andgo on believing, that Zionism and Israel were themost appropriate and far-sighted of all Jewishesponses to modernity, a heroic effort on the partof the Jewish people to rejoin the family of man. Christopher Caldwell Christopher The Weekly Standardlose bonds between Americaand Israel are bound to meanthere is another, more practicallink between the two prejudices, that we can statecrassly. Many Americans are convinced, with goodeason since September 11, that there are a largeslaughtered. We sincerely believe that many peo-and set it off. This is as true of a Lutheran farmerthe Trade Towers, and it has a consequence: thevast majority of Americans are outraged at at-tempts to excuse or explain terrorist attacks onIsraelÕs democracy. Jos Saramago, BreytenBreitenbach, and others who try to do so are per-ceived by Americansnot just as foreigners whodisagree with us on foreign policy; they are per-ceived as enemies of America itself. So at a timewhen a lot of anti-Semitism uses Israel as a pretext,even excusing the terrorism practiced against it,Europe will either come to share in these commonso Ñ or our continents will grow further apart. . . .This does not mean, as certain European cari-caturists claim, "unqualified support for ArielSharon." But it does mean that in the ongoing war against terrorism, the convergence betweent
15 he values of the US and Israel may becom
he values of the US and Israel may become morehappens in the coming years, the U.S., as the targetof Islamic fundamentalist terrorists, will spendSemites. This may create a sacred American vo-day, at most of the anti-globalization rallies,the refrain is the same one against neo-liberalism[i.e. capitalism], war, and racism ... And the repre-If you ask protesters why, of all the dozen con-flicts now unfortunately roiling the Muslim world,Israel-Palestine is the one where the ÓcapitalistÓworld of the West meets the underprivileged Jewish family, Kertsz, like many other Europeanafter being deported to Ausch-and returned to Budapest, hethe Holocaust. Two of his novels,, were translated into English, while almost allhis works are available in German. In its Nobelcitation the Swedish Academy said of Kertsz:ÒFor him, Auschwitz is not an exceptional occur-ence É outside the normal history of Western Europe. It is the ultimate truth about human de-Ill health prevented Kertsz from attending thevideo featuring a recent interview with the writerat his Berlin office and excerpts from his Nobelphilanthropist George Soros introducedImre Kertsz and the film. Moshe Safdie was introduced by his friendand YIVO National Board member MartinPeretz. Peretz termed architecture Òa JewishprofessionÓ and mentioned a few other wellknown architects, including Frank Gehry, lastyearÕs YIVO honoree, and Daniel Liebeskind. ents immigrated to Israel from Syria. Thefamily moved to Montreal when Moshe was15. Safdie made his architectural debut at age1967 WorldÕs Fair in Montreal. Since then,Safdie has continued to create bold and ori-ginal projects all over the world. His award-Canada, the Library Square in Vancouver and theestern Wall Plaza in Jerusalem. In 1978, Safdiebecame director of the UrbanDesign Program at HarvardSafdie, who is Sephardi, said,ÒIn the absence of my Yiddish, Igreet you i
16 n Ladino,Ó expressingdelight at being ho
n Ladino,Ó expressingdelight at being honored by his Ashkenazi breth-n. He credited growing up in the early days ofZionism for his Òrespect for nature and its scarceesources.Ó Representing younger generations was YairaSinger, daughter of EPYC Program Director AdinaCimet Singer. Greeting the dinner guests in bothsee YIVOÕs door opened for our generation É tocontinuityÉ.Ó Singer closed her remarks with asalute to YIVO: ÒMay you all succeed in yourand respect your work deserves.Ó[continued from page 1]YIVOÕs door opened forspeaker Yaira Singer. Left photo: YIVO NationalBoard member(L) with YIVOChairman BruceSlovin.Right photo:YIVO NationalBoard memberMartin Peretz (L)Moshe Safdie.Benefit Dinner ight One Candle: AChildÕs Diary of theLight One Candle: From Lithuania , by Solly Ganor. It features the photo-graphs of George Kadish [Zvi (Hirsh) Kadushin],secretly photograph life in the Kovno ghettoduring the war. The exhibition is made possiblethrough the generous support of Cindy and DavidSolly Ganor,ghetto memoir,stated, ÒGeorgeThe result con-graphic recordshero.Ó Otherphotographs were taken post-war by the United States Army.tos of children in the streets ofmass murders of Kovno Jewsakirchen, Bavaria, on May 2,troops who liberated SollyGanor. ÒIt was there that thethe remnants of LithuanianJewry, while we were on a DeathMarch from Dachau to the Tyrol Mountains,ÓGanor recalled.exhibition: ÒIt is the fulfillment of a promise I Holocaust. We were a group of young boys andchances that any one of us would survive wereslim É we made a solemn promise to each other, my promiseÉÓfeatures photo-met as a young boy.History, 15 West16th Street in Nework City. Viewinghours are Mondayto Thursday, 9 A.M.to 5 P.M.; Friday, 9 A.M. to 4 P.M.;and Sunday, 11 A.M. to 5 P.M.ÒA five-year-old boy receives hot soup for the family from smaller children. The boy became the provider of the family. If
17 rom the Germans during the ÔChildrenÕs A
rom the Germans during the ÔChildrenÕs ActionÕ on March 27,ÒWretched body, skinny/ Weak,From an age, far from/ Beauty or splendor.Ó Army. 12 Also at YIVO,PermanentÒOur HometownVilna.Ó Call for reservations. new YIVO exhibition, ÒTheKishinev Pogrom of 1903:Anniversary,Ó has opened at theCenter for Jewish History, 15est 16th Street, New York City.It will be on display throughto Thursday, 9 A.M. to 5 P.M.;Friday, 9 A.M. to 4 P.M.; andSunday, 11 A.M. to 5 P.M.Admission is free. ÒThis exhibition explores thefacts of this gruesome event andnoted Dr. Carl J. Rheins, YIVOExecutive Director. ÒAll the ex-hibition materials are taken fromthe YIVO Archives and the YIVOLibrary. I urge everyone to viewthe exhibit in order to under- n April 6, 1903, the last day of Pas-sover, which coincided with Easter,there was a terrible pogrom in Kishinev,a city in the Bessarabia region in thesouthern part of the Russian Empire.What distinguished this pogrom fromits predecessors, besides being the firstof the 20th century, was that it tookarist regime. Rumors about the po-grom circulated in the city a few daysbefore Passover. asked Governor Von creased police protection. The governorwould require special police attention. After 48 hours, 49 people were killedand more than 500 were injured orand shops were destroyed and looted. The Kishinev Pogrom was a turningpoint in Jewish history, as the historianSimon Dubnow wrote in his memoirs.This and subsequent pogroms demon-strated that Tsarist Russia would notafford any protection to its Jews. Afterthe Kishinev Pogrom a self-defensemovement sprang up, with groups incommunities throughout the RussianEmpire. Asharp rise in emigration fromRussia to America also followed thepogrom, similar to the mass departuressecure in a homeland of their own. Thisknown as the Second Aliyah. Finally,Jewish revolutionaries, especially thoseconvinced that only the overth
18 row ofthe Tsarist government could preve
row ofthe Tsarist government could preventsuch atrocities. A Turning Point in Jewish HistoryJoseph Brody. in Eastern Europeawarded more than half a mil-lion dollars from the Nationaland its broad appeal in helpingother. The National Endowmentuse the Encyclopedia proposalgrant for future grant-seekers.definitive reference work on experience in Eastern Europe. Professor Ger-by an impres-publication promises to be amajor breakthrough in JewishStudies. Previous funding in-cludes grants from: the RevsonFoundation, the Conference onJewish Material Claims AgainstGermany, The Righteous Persons Jeffrey P. NEH Awards IVOÕs new Chief Archivist intends to launch a digiti-zation effort to make more YIVO documents acces-sible to researchers worldwide. ÒInside thousands of grayboxes lie papers and artifacts of extraordinary signifi-cance, created during the best and worst times of recentJewish history,Ó declared Fruma Mohrer. ÒOur mission Mohrer, who had been Acting Chief Archivist, succeedsMarek Web, who headed YIVOÕs Archives from 1970 to2001. Web is now a Senior Research Scholar at YIVOÕsMax Weinreich Center for Advanced Jewish Studies. Mohrer and Web co-authored the Archives, which won the Association of Jewish Librariesard for the outstanding Judaica reference work inEldridge Street Synagogue, 1890-1916enement Museum, 1988), ÒThe NatureGhetto (Viking Penguin, 1989), andecent YIVO publication (Yale University Press, 2002). Mohrer has been the curator of severalHere and Now: The Vision of the Jewish LaborBund(2002); and the current exhibition marking the 100thanniversary of the Kishinev Pogrom. She holds a B.A. inHistory and a Graduate Diploma in Education fromMcGill University, as well as a J.D. from New York LawSchool. She is a member of the New York Bar, the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference (MARAC) and theArchivistsÕ Roundtable of Metropolitan New York (ART). Fru
19 ma Mohrer Appointed Project Director for
ma Mohrer Appointed Project Director for the mul-Jews in Eastern Europe. Jeffrey P.Edelstein comes to YIVO fromwhere he served as the Publi-cations Editor for reports andPreviously, Edelsteinwas Seni-or Project Editor and ManagingEditor of Scholarly Reference atOxford University Press. Some of his major projects include: Modern Islamic Worldof Archaeology in the Near East graduate of Amherst College and Columbia University. dation awarded $200,000Eastern Europe.The funds arethe preparation of major essaysThese essays form the core ofengage in more extended discus-surveys of geographical regions,literatures of Eastern EuropeanJewry, and cultural subjects suchArts, Theater, and the Press andRevson Foundation Awards arren Grover, a YIVONational Board member,has authored the new book(TransactionNewarkÕs major ethnic groupsas they reacted to the growingNazi presence in the 1930s. Thestrained relations between theAccording to Grover, Óis a comprehensivechronicle of local Jewish resist-ance, both organizational andprivate, and it also records theefforts of NewarkÕs other ethnicgroups to fight the Nazi pre-Grover uses archival infor-and interviews to produce thetant American communityÕs re-crucial years of 1933-1941. preceding World War II.ewark native, Grover serves on the boards of the YIVOInstitute for Jewish Research, theNew Jersey Historical Society,of MetroWest. He is a founder ofthe Newark History Society. from Transaction Publishers, lovakiaÕs Ambassador to the United States, Dr. MartinButora, visited YIVO in Febru-Director Carl J. Rheins. Accom-community, which traces its his-tory to the 10th century. Today a restaurant, a kindergarten, ato restore synagogues and Jew-orld War II.and political activists. From 1966lava, Slovakia. After the Sovietinvasion, he was prohibitedfrom publishing officially andButora refused to sign a procla-rights group Charter 77. He wasa c
20 o-founder of Public AgainstSlovak movem
o-founder of Public AgainstSlovak movement in the VelvetFrom 1990 to 1992, he was Advi-President Vaclav Havel and Di-Rights in the Office of the Presi-Federal Republic. Later, Butoracoordinated a research projectPolish Borderlalso visited YIVO. Founded in1991 to promote understandingamong ethnic groups, the foun-dation is located in Sejny, nearthe Lithuanian border. Its Bor-derland Center of Arts, Culturesand Nations runs a publishinghouse, a theater, an art gallery,and a Klezmer Music Group. staging of An-sky's play ÒThefrom the YIVO Archives by theprewar Jewish ethnographerKipnis, who died in the WarsawJan T. Gross, about the 1941Jedwabne massacre, which ig-Polish-Jewish relations duringCzyzewski has visited YIVOthe Borderland Center's work.He is interested in projects con-EPYC educational project (see isitors Slovak Ambassador and Polish Foundation Chair Visit YIVONew Book by YIVO Board Member Warren GroverCover of new book by National Board member Warren Grover. Aleichem Shul in the Bronx, and he neverforgot his . Apioneer in the movementto create art books since 1966, Colker decided tohonor Abraham Sutz-the Yiddish poetÕs 90th birthday. Colkerapproached the well-Barnett Zumoff, whoSutzkever's poetry. The result is the Trees: Poems byAbraham SutzkeverÕs containing the Yiddishcolor, in a limited edition of 90 copies. Colkervisited YIVO and presented a copy to the YIVOLibrary, where itcan be viewed upon request. Under the auspices of Haybarn Press, Colker haspublished other letterpress volumes of poetry byNeruda and KathleenNorris. All include Col-kerÕs lithographs andare printed on paper in New York City. As ayoung artist he receivedof numerous museums,of Modern Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art,College Museum of Art. braham Sutzkever, born in1913 in Smargon (now inBelarus), is one of the greatestformer partisan fighter. Duringthe First World War his familyin Viln
21 a, where Sutzkever at-tended school. He
a, where Sutzkever at-tended school. He wrote poetryfrom the age of 14, but it washis appeared in print. Begin-ning in 1935, he was a regularung-Vilneorgan of modernist writers injournals in Warsaw and in thetwo volumes of poetry beforeFrom June 1941 to Septem-the Vilna ghetto, where helectures and poetry readings ghetto theater and led a YouthClub literary circle. TogKaczerginski and other wor-of art into the ghetto to pre-he spent in the YIVO buildingpoems, which he then read including the dramatic chron-Kol-nidre, the greatpoem in which he recounts the liquidation of VilnaÕsÒGhetto 2Ó on Yom Kippur Sutzkever escaped from thein the Naroch Forest. On Marchcow, where he stayed until histhe Soviet prosecution in theNuremberg Trials during Feb-poetry and prose in Israel to-day. For more than 40 years, heguished Yiddish literary andcultural quarterly. Beneath the Trees: Poems by Abraham Sutzkever Abraham Sutzkever: Yiddish Poet and Partisan Abraham SutzkeverÕsthe Trees: Poems By aranovitsh was considered a young city. It didnot possess an old cemetery, old schools, oldtoo distant past consisted of dense forests. And inern city. Also, because of its geographic location itbecame an important railroad junction at the endoad junction at the endry and communication center as well as businesscenter. It therefore became known as the unofficialcapital of the area. The city was not large. In 18971921 there were 6,605 Jews (57.5% of the total pop-ulation). The population grew to more than 28,000people and among them less than half were Jewish.Thanks to its own peculiarities and its great sta-tus the city stood out from among its neighbors.Baranovitsh was louder, livelier and more opena communication center and business center.Baranovitsh was also known as ÒLittle WarsawÓfrom different areas in Poland. There was a certainintimacy in the city. This feeling of belonging wasbrought o
22 ut by the following anecdote: who travel
ut by the following anecdote: who traveled from city to city was asked by the people of Baranovitsh: ÒWhere do come from?Ó He answered;The city consisted of three parts: 1) Old Barano-The snakelike Shosay Street connected the threeareas. The blueprint for the construction of Baran-ovitsh was well conceptualized: the streets weremoderate, symmetric and crossing one into theother. The streets did not flow downwards orupwards; they were level and resembled a chess-board. From 1914 to 1915, the city was the head-quarters of the Russian General-Staff. Nicholas II,the Emperor of Russia/King of Poland, alsoThe Jewish community played an important rolein providing manual labor as well as being activenot play an important role in industry aside fromowning a few sawmills. In the professional fields,the Jews proportionately outnumbered all othergroups in the medical field. Most of the doctors in Baranovitsh were Jews. Most Poles worked inThe Poles ruled from 1921 to 1939, and from 1939the Russians were the rulers. But overall the rela-tionship was civil. The government officials wouldvisit Jewish stores and employ Jewish labor. Thislasted until a few years before World War II. Thenall the relationships changed for the worse É There were the Bund and the General Zionists andwas also a rich center of Torah and two great yeshivas: 1) Ohel Torah, led by the greatorah scholar Rabbi Elhanan Wasserman É and 2) the great yeshiva of Torat Hesed. It yeshivas had great influence within the Jewishcommunity. Baranovitsh was also the seat ofwere Rabbi Nehemya and Rabbi Alter. It also hadthe largest shtibl that was used by the SlonimerHasidim. The Rebbes of Slonim were Rabbiof Belarus. Its geography is as it was but thedynamic, rich and colorful city is no more. Its Y -Bikher in YIVO Collection yizker-bikher(memorial books) in its collection. These books are pub-lished histories of Eastern
23 European communities that memorialize th
European communities that memorialize the town and its Holocaust victims.ypically, there is a narrative overview of the town's history, culture, institutions and rabbis. Sometimesthis includes lists of Holocaust victims, survivors or immigrants. Most memorial books are entirely inHebrew and Yiddish. Some of the books may also have an English section. The shtetl of Baranovitsh was remembered in a published memorial book. The following is an abstract of the opening chapter,translated into English by YIVO Reference Librarian Yeshaya Metal. zker-bukh. nna Lipphardt has beenSalit-Gitelson Tell Memorial Fel-low at YIVO. She is also a mem-Potsdam University in Germany.The working title of her YIVOFellowship research is "Vilne,ilne Diaspora in New York, l Aviv and Vilnius, 1944 to the Present.ÓLipphardt is exploring the in-terrelation of cultural memorythree groups that emerged fromone core community Ñ Jewishrk and Israel (mainly Tel Aviv, who choose differentplaces of residence after theHolocaust, remember Ñ orforget Ñ their old hometown, within their re-spective organizations, culturalproductions and in their indi-vidual memories. In New YorkCity the focus is on the VilnaÒApart from being a dress itself, YIVO has been andcontinues to be in many respectsa crucial point of reference formy project,Ó Lipphardt explains.Weinreich Program in YiddishLanguage, Literature and Cul-ture during the summer of 2001,YIVO staff introduced me toDavid Rogow, today the presi-Nusakh Vilneorganization in New York. This contact latersider Ñ to conduct numerous survivors from Vilna.ÓLipphardt had the opportunityto explore the wider Yiddishtopography of New York City as a participant in the ThirdInternational Yiddish ResearchSeminar, co-sponsored by YIVO.doing archival research at YIVO,Salit-Gitelson Tell MemorialFellow, my focus was mainly onnewly acquired archival items,specifically from the
24 Sutzkever-Kaczerginski and the Vilnawell
Sutzkever-Kaczerginski and the Vilnawell as with experts from Yid-Lipphardt looks forward to able to draw from Òthe MountEverest of materials I broughtÒJewish Vilna from the InterwarPeriod to the PresentÓ that sheUniversity. ÒOur students willsearch YIVOÕs online pictureownsÓ) for visual impressionsabout Jewish Vilna, research thedreams of Jewish teenagers indiaries of Herman Kruk andother YIVO-based materials. ÒI cannot stress enough thewith other researchers of andular Yiddish culture that I foundthrough YIVO and the WeinreichProgram,Ó Lipphardt concludes.lin, these discussions providethe intellectual input to rechargemy ÔYiddish batteries.Õ Exploring Jewish Cultural MemoryAnna Lipphardt Max Weinreich Begins in OctoberYiddish classes,Mini-coursesCall YIVO at (212) 246-6080 for a flier and application.administrator of the Max Weinreich Center. Brumberg's support forsympathy to her family. ÒI cannot stressenough the value ofwith other researchersof and with activeYiddish culture that Ifound through YIVO.Ó in Your Will. For information on YIVOplease please visit the YIVO or call Ellen Siegel at . Max Weinreich Dina Abramowicz Dr. Eric GoldsteinAssistant Professor, History and Jewish Studies, Emory University Prof. Bernard Dr. Marcin WodzinskiResearch Centre for Polish Jewry, University of Wroclaw Rose and Isidore Susan Roth BreitzerHistory, University of Iowa Vladimir and Pearl Paula Eisenstein BakerMusic, University of St. Thomas, Houston Aleksander and Dr. Sean MartinAdjunct Professor of History, Kent State University CENTOS and Jewish Child Welfareivian Lefsky Dr. Jan SchwarzVisiting Assistant Professor of Germanic Studies, University of Illinois iddish Writers in New York After the HolocaustAbraham and Eliyana AdlerModern Jewish History, Brandeis University Education of Jewish Girls in Vilna Provinceorkmen's Circle/Dr. Jack JacobsProfessor of Government,
25 John Jay College, CUNY Dr. Emanuel Patt
John Jay College, CUNY Dr. Emanuel PattBundist Counterculture in Inter-War PolandNatalie and Mendel Szonja KomoroczyFaculty of Modern Languages, Oxford University Maria Salit-Gitelson Anna LipphardtGraduate Faculty, Potsdam University, Germany Jewish Vilna in New YorkDora and Mayer Hagit CohenJewish History, Bar-Ilan University Abram and Fannie Gottlieb Dr. Julija SukysPostdoctoral fellow, Comparative Literature, Immerman and Abraham Northwestern University RECIPIENTS OF YIVO FACULTY AND GRADUATE STUDENT FELLOWSHIPS, 2003 - 2004ARD RECIPIENT AFFILIATION/TOPICstipend, have been awarded forYIVOÕs Max Weinreich Centerfor Advanced Jewish Studies.cific research project in the YIVOLibrary and Archives and mostwill then report on the progressin a public lecture at YIVO. [See the listing of thefellowship winners, affiliations and topics.]ÒThis yearÕs YIVO fellows are exceptionally able,and YIVO has added two new fellowships,Ó notedDr. Paul Glasser, Associate Direc-tor of the Max Weinreich Centerand Chair of the YIVO Fellow-orkmenÕs Circle/Dr. Emanuel Pattsiting Professorship in EasternEuropean Jewish Studieslished by the Van CortlandtorkmenÕs Circle CommunityHouse and awarded to Dr. JackJacobs of John Jay College, CUNY. The second, theDora and Meyer Tendler Fellowship in Jewish Studiesestablished in memory of Dora Tendler, goes toHagit Cohen of Bar-Ilan University.Ó warded Dr. Eric L. Dr. Marcin Uriel Weinreich he 36th session of the Uriel Weinreich Programin Yiddish Language, Literature and Culture, or two times life Ñ finds the prog-ram flourishing with an enrollment of 66 students,some from far away as Donetsk, Ukraine; TimSum Village, Hong Kong; Stockholm; Tokyo; Teliv and Houston, Texas. vating a new crop of students. The next issue ofwill include an overview of the programand a report on the ceremony). T
26 here are two additions to this yearÕs wo
here are two additions to this yearÕs workshopofferings. YIVO has developed a new workshopzumer-program, ÒResearching in Yiddish,Óto guide budding Yiddish scholars to literary, cul-tural and historical sources and around linguisticsearchers in reading Yiddish manuscripts, which The Yiddish teacher-training workshop, whichhad not been offered for a number of years, isback. Veteran faculty of the zumer-programthe sessions, in which they offer their methodo-the integration of Yiddish video and audio sourcesthorny grammatical issues and the creation ofgames that reap rich pedagogical benefits.zumer-program in the future, please write to YanklSalant, Director of Yiddish Language Programs, Uriel Weinreich Summer ProgramYIVO Archives Completes Vilna Projecthe YIVO Archives has completed a project to arrange and microfilm the Records of theThe Vilna Kehillah, as this autonomous bodywas also known, dates back to the 16th century.The documents of the Kehillah shared the fate ofmany other important archival collections fromilna, which were pillaged and moved by the Nazis to Germany, then recovered by the Alliesand finally transferred to the reestablished YIVOInstitute in New York in 1947.The Tsarist government abolished the Kehillah in 1844, but the organization that replaced it, thesedakah Gedolah, though reduced to charitableand religious functions, remained the pivotalcommunal organization for the Jews of Vilna and the vicinity. In 1919, the New Kehillah wascreated to replace the Tsedakah Gedolah. TheThe surviving records of the Kehillah at YIVO,which cover the period from 1800 to 1940, provideJewish center. The collection includes records ofon the 19th century Meat Tax levied on the Jewishcommunity. There are also documents of VilnaDepartment, the Interest-Free Loan Office, theCommittee and Social Services. There are fragmentary birth, marriage and death records,which wil
27 l be of interest to genealogists.Funded
l be of interest to genealogists.Funded by the Conference on Jewish MaterialClaims Against Germany, the project was carried out by Archivist Vital Zajka, who completed the analysis of Russian, Yiddish and Hebrew docu-ments and compiled the new electronic findingaid. The collection was microfilmed by the YIVOPreservation Department. Education Committee, a constituent part of the Vilna Kehillah, 1920s (YIVO YIVO in History More than 50 years ago, American Jewish leaders gathered in New York under the auspices of YIVO to consider many of the issues on which they still focus today, namely questions related to Jewish integration into the American society and economy. That conference was the lead story in edies fun Yivo/News of issue number 31, in February 1949, which is reproduced below. February, 1949. 22 n 1911, Mendl Beilis (1874-1934), Jewish super-intendent of a brick kiln in Kiev, was chargedwith murdering 12-year-old Andrei Yushchinskywide protests and his acquittal was celebrated theworld over. Beilis emigrated to Palestine and thenthe United States. The injustice appears in Bernardspeaks to us through two songs in the YIVO MusicArchives, excerpted below:posed by Mark Warshawsky, describes BeilisÕssuffering in prison. halt men dos oys?' der yid fregt farvundert.Theologians, learned men, cannot comprehend it; they come forth with sharp protests against the dreadful blood libel. They cry out, they ask:'How can one bear it?' There, in Kiev, a black gangof ugly criminals murders a child. Mendl Beilis isthrown in prison É accused of the dreadful crime,arrogantly to incite a wild pogrom. ÒTo sit in the court and hear the charges of theevil É prosecutor, brings hot tears to oneÕs eyesÉ.There in the prison, in a dark cell, nightfall comes,like a black Torah curtain. There Mendl Beilis sitsÉ longs É for his wife and children.É He weepsGod, You punish me too much! comes
28 from the 1913 Yiddish playDer Martirer M
from the 1913 Yiddish playDer Martirer Mendl Beylis Martyr Mendl Beilis), with words by Arnold Perlmutter and HermanIkh bet aykh, mentsh, rebe, dertseylpeal to you, man, rabbi, to relate my wife and children É I committedno crime, I worked hard, I carriedWhen did I murder a child?ÓArchives, the YIVO Archives containphotographs of Beilis and rare lettersthat he wrote to writers and otherprominent people. Russian postcard "In memory of the Beilis Trial 1913" showing the jury, and a cameo portrait ofSheet music of Boris ThomashefskyÕs operetta entitled, ÒThectim or Mendel Beilis,Ó New York City (1913). HISTORYJudith C. Moroz of the Jewish Historical Society ofSchiff, entitled ÒEvents in the Jewish and Zionistrecords of the Hebrew Technical Institute, a New1884 that closed in 1939. Some records date to 1903.¥ Bonnie Aidelman donated documentation on thebeen demolished) at the John F. Kennedy Interna-tional Airport in New York City.munity in Ireland, and YIVO Chief Archivist FrumaMohrer donated materials on the Jewish communityof Montreal.¥ Yiddish educator Michael Baran donated materials onthe Jewish community of Grodno, now in Belarus.¥ Louis L. Lipshutz donated a Yiddish account writtenby his father, Jacob, of a Jew murdered in Krivoi Rog,Ukraine, at the turn of the 20th century. The donation¥ The Houts and Davidoff families donated the auto-biography of Dr. Ida Fisher Davidoff, a pioneeringsearcher of the roles of educated women in Ameri-can society.¥ Hannah Truth donated, via former YIVO LibrarianNikolai Borodulin, the 1934 charter of WorkmenÕsCircle Branch 808, a womenÕs branch connected to the orderÕs School Number 2 in the Bronx. Dr. ChavaLapin, YIVO National Board member, gave Work-menÕs Circle materials.¥ YIVO Archives volunteerMajus Nowogrodzki donatedto the papers of Borukh Shef-ner, a prominent Yiddishnated a large number ofBlit, who was a Yiddish,¥ YIVO Arc
29 hives volunteerCamp Hemshekh Yiddishist-
hives volunteerCamp Hemshekh Yiddishist- esby omposer-conductor Iwo Wesby (1902-1961),born Ignacy Singer in Cracow, worked inprewar Polish musical theaters, films and caba-ts. His papers were donated by Harold Siegel,a cousin of Wesby's late wife, Eleonor Berlineresby. They include forged ÒAryanÓ papers,photographs and programs of his performances.esby was the musical director of WarsawÕsthen-famous ÒQui Pro QuoÓ theater, where heworked with such major stars as Hanka Ordo-nowna (1902-1950), whose CD recordings stillenjoy brisk sales. Wesby also worked with pop-who was active in the anti-Nazi underground,rsaw, including Wesby, his wife Eleonor ÑAzazelÓ theater in the Warsaw ghetto. Later hejumped from a train headed to the Treblinkadid not protect him from being caught againand sent to forced labor in Vienna. After beingeunited with his family in 1945, Wesby con-ducted orchestras in displaced personsÕ camps,eventually settling in New York, where he con- of the donor, New York CityIwo Wesby (inset) with sheet music of a shimmy [continued on page 24] Archives ¥ Rose Weiss donated a partly hand-on silk, of a meeting in Vitebsk,Belarus, held in May 1917.father, Abraham Troop, a Bundactive in the WorkmenÕs Circle¥ Raanan Geberer donated Ameri-can Yiddish Anarchist materials,and Bruce Ballin donated materi-als relating to radical groups in the 1960s.¥ Tina Ben-Israel donated additionalmaterial about the Yiddish radiointerview tape is also in the YIVOArchives.¥ Judith Jaffe donated letters anddocuments from the collection ofher grandfather-in-law, RabbiSolomon Elchanan Jaffe, whoofficiated at the Beth HamidrashHagodol, the oldest East Euro-pean congregation in New York. of Montreal for his steady streamand literary documents from Jew-¥ Special thanks are also to HannahDonner of the National YiddishBook Center for forwarding sub-documents received there as part¥ Dr. Gary Ka
30 ntrowitz, Ruth Lem-AMILY AND GENEAOLOGY
ntrowitz, Ruth Lem-AMILY AND GENEAOLOGY Patt, the extensive Yiddish min-Beneficial Society, covering theory of her father, William Seiden,Pilzner Benevolent Society. Therecords of the United Pruzinerand Vicinity Relief Committee.Pruzhany is located in Belarus. Dr. Francine Sobel Lasken donatedlent Society. Solotvina is a town in¥ Joseph Lerner donated a Yiddish-dent Sharogroder LadiesÕ Auxili-ary. The town of Shargorod is in¥ Dr. Alice Kahn Ladas gave familycareer as a psychologist. She alsophy of Dr. Theodor Bloom, aVienna, who settled in New Yorkdonated many Yiddishand photographsfamily, which lived in¥ Marcy Levinsontation of her long careeras a New York Citytaken during visits of Americanlatives in Warsaw and Smargon(now in Belarus) in 1930.photographs of the FeitelbergGoldstein-Bobrow family photo-graphs from Gomel, Belarus andMt. Vernon, New York.¥ Alice Canick donated familypostcards with Jewish motifs.¥ Lillian Altman donated familyphotographs taken in Americaand in both Dobrzyn and Bledow,Poland. Family members weregraph of his grandparents. Thegrandmother, Lina Besprosvannitimes of Tsar Nicholas I.¥ Iris Lane Struber donated a largeas many antique postcards with¥ Irene Gelin donated additionalcorrespondence between hergrandparents conducted fromLodz and Riga before they[continued from page 23]New Year card sent to the family ofMiriam Raphael, the donor, from theidentified, New York City (1908/09).Struber. 25 ¥ Aviva Benemy donated a 1936ddish letter written from Haifaby her father, Joseph Adler,¥ Allen Standard donated a letterwritten to his grandmother, whichperished in Auschwitz.Poland, during the Tsarist period.husband and father-in-law fromChina. They were Jewish refugeeswho were able to leave China¥ Harold Siegel donated the papersesby and his wife, Eleonor. (See featured collection.) Thepapers include forged identity¥ Carol Wilson of the Swiss Benevo-
31 Cardozo, who had Swiss citizen-ship thro
Cardozo, who had Swiss citizen-ship through marriage though sheLopes CardozoÕs unsuccessfuleffort to save her family.ment on a Danube river barge andafter an 18-month struggle, theymanaged to reach the United¥ Professor Dov Levin donatedto his papers, which mostly re-detailed account in Yiddish ofsurvival in the Komi Autonomousmany Polish Jewish refugees weredeported during World War II. ¥ The Yiddish account in poeticescape from a train to Treblinka,occupied Europe. ¥ Manfred Weininger and Dr.nated their work on Sergeanthis life for aiding the resistancemovement in the Vilna ghetto.¥ Professor Manuel Sanudo ofQueens College/CCNYdonatedthe extensive Abraham H. Bermanon the Holocaust. Dr. LawrenceNazi proclamations about PolesLITERATURE, LANGUAGEAND CULTUREof his father, Joseph, co-editor ofleading Yiddish publications for¥ Rochelle Lederman Abelson do-nated a letter from the Yiddishpoet Ruvn Aizland addressedjointly to the Yiddish poet ManiLeib and to the Yiddish essayist¥ Dr. Jeanne Anderson donated let-ters written by the Yiddish novel-vaudevillian Philip Carr.from the Yiddish actor and can-tor Noah Nachbush and from the Yiddish novelist and poetLamed Shapiro. Included in thisdonation are three unpublishedNachbush recordings.¥ Hershel Post donated, via LynSlome of the American JewishHistorical Society, Yiddish andHebrew manuscripts written byhis father, David, who was activein the Labor Zionist Alliance andother organizations in Milwaukee.¥ Paul Liebhaber and Beverly Ferenterials relating to current YiddishMUSIC AND THEATERsive papers of his mother, Zypora,a star of the Folksbine YiddishTheater in New York. This¥ Morris Wyszgorod do-the Yiddish-Lensky.¥ ProfessorSandrow gaveYiddher research for the Yiddish theater.¥ Yiddish actor David Rogow do-collection of his papers alreadypreserved in the YIVO Archives.gregations in New York City andMykola Lysenko's"Taras Bul
32 ba,"Company, New Belarsky. Zypora Spaism
ba,"Company, New Belarsky. Zypora Spaisman appearing in a Folks-bine Theater production of "Hard to be aJew" by Sholem Aleichem, New York Detroit. The papers include hisrecordi¥ Vivana Brodey donated the largesister Marianna Esther Brodey, aa music instructor in New York.¥ Michael Ezer donated, via Yev-the Soviet Yiddish singer Mikhailson to perform publicly in Yid-papers of her late father, SidorBelarsky. Included in this do-nation are record masters ofseveral of his Yiddish recordings.relating to the Yiddish-American¥ Chana Mlotek, YIVO Music Archi-Moses Kligsberg, a longtime YIVOarchivist.¥ Claire Stadtmauer donated operettas by Abraham Goldfaden,father of the Yiddish theater.composer of Yiddish art songs.programs of recent Jewish musicfestivals in Europe.grandmother, Sonia, who sang inmusic and recordings of Jewish¥ Recordings of Jewish music weredonated by Myril Bennett Axel-od, Estelle and Louis Baron,Evelyn Eber, Ann Golub, GladysLeopold, Abe Liebling (via EdithForman), YIVO Executive Direc-tor Dr. Carl Rheins, Dr. ChanaSchachner and Ellen Share of theashington Hebrew Congrega-¥ Andreas Schmitges donated a fullset of storyboards from an exhibitabout klezmer music currentlytouring Germany.ART AND ARTIFACTS¥ Carolyn Tobias gave additionalmaterials on the career of her hus-band, Abraham Joel Tobias, whoof buildings in New York Stateand at Howard University inan original lithograph by Leonard¥ Marilyn Dornhelm donated Yid-dish letters of BaruchDornhelm, a prominentCentral Europe in thecentury. She also includedsung by the AcademicSociety Yiddish Culture in Vienna in 1910.¥ Professor Rochelle G.Ruthchild donated threeSoviet artist AnatoliKaplan derived fromJewish folklore andddish literature.materials about the careerof the Warsaw-based artist ChaimGoldberg, much of whose workwas published on postcards. He¥ Janette and Danny Lesser, via An-dreas Schmitges, gave a F
33 riendsof Yiddish Culture poster from¥ Dr
riendsof Yiddish Culture poster from¥ Dr. Edy Kaufman donated a pos-ter commemorating the heroicHolocaust rescue activities ofOskar Schindler.¥ YIVO National Board memberMartin Peretz donated a largethe death of the famed Yiddishwriter Yitskhok Leybush Peretz.of her father, Rabbi Hyman L.President of the Rabbinical Su-¥ YIVO Head Librarian Avivafrom the Jewish National Fund in New York.and set of tefilin that her father,Louis Desgun, may have broughtwith him from Russia in 1907.¥ Ilsa Wagner donated 660 mastertainment Hour,Ó a New Yorktelevision program produced gner, from 1965 to 2002. Theprograms constitute a veritablewith American and Israeli poli-500 recordings of Jewish music, ¥ Margaret Siegal Weiss donated afilm made by her father, Morrishometown of Zborow, now in[continued from page 25] Jewish soldiersfrom Palestineserving in theBritish armyin North Africa.Nowogrodzki. ¥ Yakov Kopelansky donated, at the recommendation of Prof. Dovtrips to Vizhun (Vizuonos) andThe tapes include the donorÕs nar-rative about the areaÕs Jewish pre-tape of the Modicot Yiddish Pup-pet Theater, established by thepainters Yosl Kotler and Zuni¥ Bernard Aptaker donated an edu-Lewis, several feature films madeÒDream of My People,Ó whichstarred Cantor Yossele Rosenblatt.father, Philip S. Lewis.¥ Livia Turkel donated 55 rare,¥ Victor and Norah Mayper donatedprewar photographs of the townteam, taken in the town of Warta,tograph relating to the Americanactivities in Brest Litovsk (now in Belarus) from the early 1920s.¥ Professor Allan Nadler and Tobyly photographs of Yiddish schoolsin New York and others of her fam-ilyin graphs of her mother, the YiddishBially, whose papers are on depo-sit at the YIVO Archives. Felloware also pictured.of the Borokhov Labor Zionist-Lodz, Poland. Also included weresonsÕ camp in Feldafing, Germany. A delegate from the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committ
34 ee registers needy Jews for relief inBri
ee registers needy Jews for relief inBrisk, Poland (1920s). Donor: Leo Hershkowitz. he life of Dr. Frank Rosenblatt (1882Ð1927), took himfrom his scholarly family in Lapin, a small shtetl inpresentative of the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC).The Rosenblatt archival material, donated by his grand-daughter Emily Ford, focuses on his experience with theJDC. It includes reports, minutes of meetings, newspapersand a vast correspondence, mostly from officials of thefamily correspondence with his wife and children. The son of a merchant and Talmudic scholar, Rosenblattbecome a rabbi. After studying in yeshivas and a secularBundist ideas. Facing arrest, he escaped to Switzerland,He worked in a New York shop while continuing hisstudies, graduating in 1910 from Columbia Universitywith a Ph.D. in philosophy. Rosenblatt became an experton American tariff law, wrote extensively under the nameof Ben Yakir for the Yiddish and English press, and in1915 was elected general secretary of the WorkmenÕsCircle. In 1919 he was appointed JDC representative in ith the political order in Russia in flux at the end oforld War I, Rosenblatt sought to help the Jewish popu-lation recover after suffering through the war, pogroms,murders and the continued fighting of the White armies.terial reflecting the general situation in Russia, with apublishing house, where he served as president. SolomonKrystal, long-term YIVO National Board member andvolunteer, arranged the collection. For researchers andhistorians of this period, the archival material in the Dr.and is a rich source of information. WWI JDC Representative Frank RosenblattÕs Collection Available YIVO Donors Conference on Jewish MaterialClaims Against Germany, Inc.an Cortlandt WorkmenÕs CircleONORSOFBOVEhe YIVO Institute for Jewish Research thanks the following donors for helping to preserve ourJewish heritage through their generous support
35 . In the last issue, Yedies acknowledged
. In the last issue, Yedies acknowledged gifts of$1,000 - $4,999. This issue recognizes donors of $5,000 and above from June 1, 2002 - May 31, 2003. $50,000 AND David Berg FoundationSDAEnterprises, Inc.Dr. Edward L. Steinberg Diane and Joseph S. Steinbergand Jeffrey GlenThe Robert Wood JohnsonAmerican Stock Transfer CompanyGeorge KarfunkelCarol and Lawrence Saper Ernst & YoungJerrold P. Fuchs and Jane Harvey Greystone & Co.Stephen RosenbergAndrea and Warren GroverDorothy and David RothbartCarol and Gershon KekstLancer GroupLehrer McGovern BovisJacob MorowitzAnna and Dr. Martin PeretzSalo W. and Jeannette M. BaronMorris and Alma Schapiro Fund $25,000 AND $10,000 AND 1,2002 Ð M31,2003Edythe and Eli BroadEdgar M. BronfmanSharon and Jeffrey W. CasdinCaren and Dr. Arturo ConstantinerClaire and Joseph H. FlomUlla and Dr. Steven F. HarwinJ.P. Morgan Chase & Co.Anne and William B. Harrison, Jr.Susan and Jerome L. KatzCarolyn and Steven KotlerCarol and Earl I. MackNew York Metropolitan Referenceand Research Library AgencyHarold OstroffRebecca Patt and Avram PattRonald O. PerelmanPhilipp Brothers Chemical, Inc.R.A.K. Group, LLCCarol A. StahlSharon and Fred SteinCharitable Trustinson & Elkins L.L.P.Jacob WaisbordMyra and Dr. Herman TreitelClaudia and William WaltersFrances WeinsteinDr. Louise Crandall and WilliamLandberg OF $5,000 AND VE confirmation class from Congregation Agudas Achim in Austin, Texas, visited YIVO during its spring break tourto places of both Jewish and secular interest in New York and Washington. Over cookies and soda, the 14 studentsfrom the Conservative synagogue met with Executive Director Carl Rheins who told them about the YIVO InstituteÕshistory and mission. Brad Sabin Hill, Dean of the Library, gave them a tour of the YIVO Rare Book Room. At the end of their visit, the students, all fourth-generation Jewish-Americans, each received as a conf
36 irmation gift a copy of European Jews in
irmation gift a copy of European Jews in Two Worlds, edited by Deborah Dash Moore (Northwestern University Press/YIVO, 1990). One of the Texas students views photos from YIVOÕs recent exhibitionYIVO Executive Director Dr. Carl Rheins demonstrates the restorationof treasured books and manuscripts in the Preservation Laboratory. YIVO Welcomes Texas High School Students Letters Dr. Joanna Lisek of Wroclaw Uni-Salit-Gitelson Tell Fellow for 2001at YIVO. Her lecture, held onOctober 30, 2001, explored "TheIdentity of the Artistic Groupung-Vilne.'" LisekÕs disserta-tion reviewer was Dr. Monika(Lublin, Poland), the Vivian Lefskyto the Educational Program on Yid-dish Culture (EPYC) at YIVO.inform YIVO ng-VilneThree weeks ago were acceptedby the examination board. Myfor publication and an award. I wish to thank you once morefor your help. I am fully awareopportunity to do research atincludes materials from theCentral State Archives of Lithu-ilnius. What is more, I reallyenjoyed my stay in New York. It was a great, unforgettableadventure.Sincerely yours,In the Winter 2002 issue of am listed as a recipientof a YIVO scholarship grantedfrom Columbia and since 1961 II am still a member of YIVO. As a visiting Professor at theand at the University of Amster-studies at YIVO and Columbia.as Chaim Berman, but hereI amknown as Hy. I hope that thisof 50 years ago was appreciated* **Great EPYC Training How do I even thank you? Youhave provided me with such atruly wonderful learning oppor-tunity Ñ one that surely hasstudy with engaging instructors,people YIVO has to offer. Thankclose relationship É personallyand professionally with YIVOand Dr. Adina Cimet, the ProjectDirector. (See EPYC, p. 7) Director of EducationSeattle, WAgrants from Rezekne, Latviaknow what language the recordsare in, and I wonder if they areaccessible as I am doing researchon those who immigrated fromthis town to Ameri
37 ca.New York, NYThe YIVO Archives does po
ca.New York, NYThe YIVO Archives does possessecords, correspondence and acemetery map. The minutes wereprobably taken in Yiddish. TheYIVO archivist on duty will assistyou. No appointment is necessary.* **photo, dates of construction,closure, etc.Sophie Wilzig-Garcia The following sources contain(Ôorekh Dov Levin);zikaron(ha-orkhim B. EliÕav, M.Bobeh, A. Kremer); pp. 337-338* ** Letters to YIVOJoanna Lisek I am trying to locate records ofwas based in New York, andwere members of.The YIVO Archives has thefollowing records on Kalisz:1) Kalisher Social Vereincinity, WorkmenÕs Circle Branch* **My grandmother was frompictures to the Konin MemorialBook. I would like to visit YIVOor read Yiddish. Memorial book. Our reference* **travels in Yiddish literature andthe press and I spent almost thewhole month reading periodicalson microfilm at the YIVOlibrary.I am grateful to Yeshaya Metaland Herbert Lazarus. WithoutI needed for my research.QueenÕs UniversityBelfast, Northern Irelandesearched Chaim Zhitlowsky atthe YIVO library. I am writing fically Herbert Lazarus, who not only introduced me to theintricacies of the YlVO cataloguesystem, but also took an interestin my project. It is not easy tophotocopy from old microfilms,search both more efficient andmore pleasant.Sincerely yours, Karen RosenbergMontclair, NJfrom Latvia and Lithuaniaespectively, this trip had greatmy expectations. It was a pre-which went through so much inyears past, are today. My trip-to YIVO for organizing thisoutstanding effort. Letters should be sent to YIVO at 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY10011-6301 or YIVO Mission 2003 at the memorial in Rumbula Forest, near Riga, Latvia, where 25,000 Jews from the Riga Ghetto were murdered on November 30 and December 8, 1941.Photo by Joan D. Levin Letters to YIVO Join YIVOÕ s e-mail list Keep on top of the latest news from YIVO. Find out about programs and eventsnot
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