2015

Examiner.com, 2015. The year that was in art. (December 31, 2015)
Topic » Letters to Afar

In Geveb, Yiddish Counterlives, or How to Think Beyond Broadway Yiddish (December 24, 2015)
Topic » Jewface

Publishers Weekly, PW's Top Cookbook Stories of 2015 (December 16, 2015)
Topic » Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook

The Forward, How Evgeny Kissin Became a One-Man Yiddish Pride Movement (December 14, 2015)
Topic » Soviet Songs with a Jewish Flavor

Hollywood Reporter, New Anne Frank Documentary Examines U.S. Immigration Standards That Barred Many Jews During World War II (December 12, 2015)
Topic » No Asylum

Ice Cream and Knishes, Potato Milk Soup - The Vilna Vegetarian (December 11, 2015)
Topic » Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook

NPR: Book Concierge, Our Guide To 2015’s Great Reads (December 8, 2015)
Topic » Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook

NPR, Beyond The Dreidel: The Songs Of Hanukkah — And How They've Changed (December 8, 2015)
Topics » Hanukkah / YIVO Archives

JTA, A classic Yiddish operetta, revived for a new generation (December 8, 2015)
Topics » Di Goldene Kale / YIVO Archives

The Forward, Remembering the Days of Vaudeville and Jewface (December 8, 2015)
Topic » Jewface

The Forward, The Best Jewish Cookbooks of 2015 (December 3, 2015)
Topic » Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook

The Forward, חזנות־קאָנצערט מיט יהודית בערקסאָן (December 1, 2015)
Topic » Judith Berkson Presents: Cantorial Music from the YIVO Archives

The Forward, !לאָמיר אַנטדעקן אַשכּנז (November 25, 2015)
Topic » Discovering Ashkenaz

The Blackshear Times, Another look at the world of Otto Frank (November 25, 2015)
Topic » No Asylum

The Washington Post, Anne Frank and her family were also denied entry as refugees to the U.S. (November 24, 2015, picked up by Sun Sentinel and Times Record)
Topic » Otto Frank File

The Jewish Week, A New Chapter in Anne Frank’s Story (November 23, 2015)
Topic » No Asylum

The Forward, New Yorker Cartoonist Roz Chast Gets All the Laughs at YIVO 90th Gala (November 20, 2015)
Topic » 90th Anniversary Benefit

Examiner.com, HIAS CEO Mark Hetfield testifies about the Syrian refugee crisis (November 19, 2015)
Topic » Otto Frank File

Addicting Info, Anne Frank Literally Died Because Of America’s Anti-Refugee Stance (November 18, 2015)
Topic » Otto Frank File

The Forward, “רעפֿעראַט פֿון ד״ר יחיאל (דזשעפֿרי) שאַנדלער אין „ייִוואָ (November 15, 2015)
Topic » “And now I have to read in Jewish something”: Yiddish Performances by Holocaust Survivors

Flatiron Hot!, An Evening at the Center for Jewish History – The Plight of Jewish DPs 70 Years On (November 12, 2015)
Topic » Jewface

Yiddish Book Center, Rediscovering the "Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook" (November 4, 2015)
Topic » Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook

New Books in Jewish Studies, YIVO and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture: Scholarship for the Yiddish Nation (October 29, 2015)
Topic » YIVO and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture

Project Muse, Higher Education for Imperial Russian Jews (October 29, 2015)
Topic » YIVO and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture

TLV1, YIVO and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture (October 16, 2015, podcast)
Topic » YIVO and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture

In Geveb, Essays on Yiddishism: Nokhem Shtif (October 4, 2015, podcast)
Topic » Yiddish

Judisk Kronika, Ett slag för jiddisch (September 24, 2015) 
Topic » Yiddish Fight Club

Radio Sefarad, 90 yor fun der grindung fun IWO, gefayer in Litvishn Seym (Parlament) (September 2015) 
Topic » YIVO's 90th Anniversary

Jewish Community of Lithuania, YIVO Party at Lithuanian Jewish Community (September 23, 2015) 
Topic » YIVO's 90th Anniversary

DELFI, 90th anniversary of Jewish YIVO institute marked in Vilnius (September 17, 2015)
Topic » YIVO's 90th Anniversary

Lietuvos Zinios, Prasideda YIVO 90-mečio minėjimo renginiai (September 17, 2015)
Topic » YIVO's 90th Anniversary

ELTA, Lietuvos žydų (litvakų) bendruomenės spaudos pranešimas (September 17, 2015)
Topic » YIVO's 90th Anniversary

ELTA, Seime bus paminėtos 90-osios YIVO (Žydų mokslinių tyrimų instituto) metinės (September 17, 2015)
Topic » YIVO's 90th Anniversary

The Jewish Press, Unique Cookbooks Explore Intriguing Culinary Territory (September 11, 2015)
Topic » Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook

The Forward, Yiddish Fight Club: A Tour of the Exhibition with Eddy Portnoy (September 9, 2015)
Topic » Yiddish Fight Club

Jewish Review of Books, Vegetarian in Vilna (September 9, 2015)
Topic » Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook

Rocky Mountain Jew, Vilna Vegetarian: Rhubarb compote, Salad vinaigrette tested (September 9, 2015)
Topic » Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook

Rocky Mountain Jew, Vilna Vegetarian: Apple cake tested (September 7, 2015)
Topic » Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook

Intermountain Jewish News, No Meat, Oy! Really? Really. (September 3, 2015)
Topic » Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook

In Geveb, Is There Such a Thing as “Yiddish Architecture”? (August 10, 2015)
Topic » Yiddish

In Geveb, Incomplete Yiddish Philology (August 9, 2015)
Topic » YIVO Archives

The Jewish Book Council, July 2015 Jewish Book Council Staff Picks (July 28, 2015)
Topic » Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook

The Jewish Week, Bikel’s Gift As An Actor (July 28, 2015, mention)
Topic » 13th Annual Heritage Gala / Theodore Bikel

The Economist, Yiddish on the rise (July 21, 2015, mention)
Topic » Yiddish

The Spendid Table, Finding, then publishing a rare Yiddish vegetarian cookbook from the '30s (July 15, 2015)
Topic » Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook

Pop Matters, When the Past Sits at Your Dinner Table (July 9, 2015)
Topic » Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook

The Forward, Theo Bikel, Guardian of Yiddishkeit, Honored By YIVO (July 1, 2015)
Topics » 13th Annual Heritage Gala / Theodore Bikel

The Jewish Book Council, The Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook (July 2015)
Topic » Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook

Jewniverse, Introducing a Yiddish Lifestyle Cookbook from 1938 Vilnius (June 30, 2015)
Topic » Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook

The Algemeiner, A Look at the Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook (June 30, 2015)
Topic » Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook

Arutz Sheva, A Woman Who Wished to Make History (June 29, 2015, picked up by The Algemeiner and The Hong Kong Herald)
Topic » Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook

VOA News, В Нью-Йорке отметили героизм евреев, сражавшихся с нацизмом (June 26, 2015, mention)
Topic » Blavatnik Archive Foundation

JWeekly, Saving the world, one slow bite at a time (June 25, 2015, mention)
Topic » Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook

Times of Israel, There’s a star of David in the Eye of the White Tiger (June 23, 2015, mention)
Topic » Yiddish Fight Club

Jewish Journal, Recipes: Rediscovered and Reimagined (June 18, 2015)
Topic » Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook

Jewish Journal, Recipes: Vilna Vegetarian (June 18, 2015)
Topic » Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook

Sheldon Kirshner, The Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook (June 18, 2015)
Topic » Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook

Rutgers Today, Jewish Boxers? Who Knew! (June 15, 2015)
Topic » Yiddish Fight Club

Jewish Currents, From Yiddishland to America: The Creation & Preservation of YIVO (June 14, 2015)
Topic » YIVO and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture

Publishers Weekly, Turning a Long Lost Cookbook Into a Bestseller (June 12, 2015)
Topic » Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook

The Forward, Leek Appetizer Recipe From ‘Vilna’ (June 10, 2015)
Topic » Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook

The Forward, ‘Vilna Vegetarian’ and Me (June 10, 2015)
Topic » Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook

Unity, Lithuania’s political and economic diary. Lithuanian President delivers State of the Nation address (June 7, 2015)
Topic » Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections

Lietuvos Zinios, Vilniuje sukauptas žydų archyvas atkuriamas Niujorke (June 5, 2015)
Topic » Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections

DELFI, Jewish archives from Vilnius to be restored in New York (June 5, 2015)
Topic » Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections

The Forward, How YIVO Became a Lasting Cultural Center (June 1, 2015)
Topic » YIVO and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture

The New York Post, ‘Citizen-Poet’ Takes Big Apple (June 1, 2015)
Topic » Isaac Babel Event

The New York Post, Carving the Shtetl (June 1, 2015)
Topic » Yudovin Exhibition

The Observer, Jewish Vegetarians Rejoice: The Resurrection of a Rare Yiddish Cookbook (May 28, 2015)
Topic » Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook

The Jerusalem Post, Books: The Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook (May 28, 2015)
Topic » Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook

LA Review of Books Marginalia, A Blessing on Your Head, and Other Ways to Deliver a Beating in Yiddish (May 28, 2015)
Topic » Yiddish Fight Club

Vice, Fightland: Jewish Fighters and Their Fighting Words (May 27, 2015)
Topic » Yiddish Fight Club

Tasting Table, This Thing Now: "The Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook" (May 27, 2015)
Topic » Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook

Jewlicious, JewliciousEats: The Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook Pays Homage to Fania Lewando (May 27, 2015)
Topic » Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook

Tablet Magazine, No Brisket, No Chopped Liver: Recipes for a Meat-Free Jewish Kitchen (May 26, 2015, picked up by Forum Żydów Polskich)
Topic » Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook

MyJewishBooks.com, The Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook (Spring 2015)
Topic » Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook

Haaretz, Veggie Burgers in 1930s Vilna – a Jewish Chef Ahead of Her Time (May 26, 2015)
Topic » Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook

New York Post, This Week's Must Read List (May 23, 2015)
Topic » Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook

Vogue, Gifts for Your Memorial Day Hostess That Are Not a Bottle of Rosé (May 21, 2015)
Topic » Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook

A Rumor of Empathy with Lou Agosta, How Things Were Done in Odessa (May 20, 2015)
Topic » Isaac Babel Event

Listening with Empathy, A Rumor of Empathy in Odessa – and at Yivo (May 19, 2015)
Topic » YIVO Archives

The Forward, $1,160,000 Matching Grant to Preserve YIVO Library (May 20, 2015)
Topic » Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections

WBUR: Only a Game, ‘Yiddish Fight Club’ And A 600-Pound Jewish Wrestler (May 16, 2015)
Topic » Yiddish Fight Club

The Jewish Week: Food & Wine, Reviving The Alice Waters Of Vilna (May 14, 2015)
Topic » Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook

Jewish Currents, A Zetz! “Yiddish Fighting Words” at YIVO (May 11, 2015)
Topic » Yiddish Fight Club

DerStandard, Biografien schreiben im Kampf um Brot und Arbeit (May 11, 2015)
Topic » YIVO Autobiography Contests

DELFI, Lithuanian government and Jewish community agree on plan to preserve Jewish heritage sites (May 8, 2015)
Topic » Lithuanian Joint Commission

ELTA, PRANEŠIMAS SPAUDAI (May 8, 2015)
Topic » Lithuanian Joint Commission

LRT, Vyriausybė ir žydų atstovai sutarė dėl plano išsaugant paveldą bei kapines (May 7, 2015)
Topic » Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections

Square Cylinder, Letters to Afar @ Contemporary Jewish Museum (May 7, 2015)
Topic » Letters to Afar

The Forward, YIVO Turns 90 (May 6, 2015, in Yiddish)
Topic » YIVO's 90th Anniversary

Shtetl Magazine, Shortwave: Yiddish Fight Club & Joni Mitchell (May 6, 2015)
Topic » Yiddish Fight Club

The Jewish Week, Fighting to Keep Yiddish Culture Alive (May 5, 2015)
Topic » Yiddish Fight Club

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania, Lithuania’s Foreign Vice-Minister congratulates the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research on its 90th anniversary (May 4, 2015)
Topic » YIVO's 90th Anniversary

The Forward, Yiddish Fight Club (May 3, 2015, in Yiddish)
Topic » Yiddish Fight Club

Jewlicious, YIVO Gives a Zetz To Jewish Wrestlers As Mayweather and Pacquiao Prepare to Brawl (May 1, 2015)
Topic » Yiddish Fight Club

Haaretz, People of the Ring: New York exhibition celebrates Jewish boxers and wrestlers (May 1, 2015)
Topic » Yiddish Fight Club

The New York Times, Jewish Boxers and Wrestlers, and Yiddish Fighting Words, at YIVO Institute Exhibition (April 30, 2015, picked up by Jewish Journal and Mosaic Magazine)
Topic » Yiddish Fight Club

The Forward, How Do You Say 'Uppercut' in Yiddish? (April 28, 2015)
Topic » Yiddish Fight Club

Le Monde, L’Histoire devant soi (April 27, 2015)
Topic » Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections

The Daily News, In the Now: Freedy Johnston in residence at Rockwood Music Hall; explore pro wrestling's Yiddish roots; get a prime spot to watch polo ponies (April 24, 2015)
Topic » Yiddish Fight Club

The Forward, Exhibition on Yiddish Slang by Jewish Fighters (April 21, 2015)
Topic » Yiddish Fight Club (Yiddish translation of release)

The Chicago Tribune, Rare Yiddish cookbook from '30s gets new life in English translation (April 21, 2015)
Topic » Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook

Booklist Review, The Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook (April 15, 2015)
Topic » Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook

Evan Kleinman: Culinary Multitasker, Cookbook: The Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook (April 9, 2015)
Topic » Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook

Jewish Currents: JEWDAYO, April 27: The Poet of the Vilna Underground (April 6, 2015)
Topic » Shmerke Kaczerginski

KBIA, Jewish vegetarians say you don't have to make brisket for Passover — and they've got the recipes to prove it (April 2, 2015)
Topic » Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook

Jewish Journal, Glimpses of a lost world (April 2, 2015, picked up by the Huffington Post)
Topic » Letters to Afar

The Forward, The Weekly Dish (March 31, 2015)
Topic » Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook

KCRW, Vilna Vegetarian: A Vegetarian Jewish Cookbook Ahead of Its Time (March 28, 2015, also on their SoundCloud and mentioned in The Forward)
Topic » Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook

KCRW Good Food, Passover Recipe: Horseradish and Apple Salad (March 27, 2015)
Topic » Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook

KCRW Good Food, Passover Cheesecake (March 27, 2015)
Topic » Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook

The Weiser Kitchen, The Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook: Garden-Fresh Recipes Rediscovered and Adapted for Today’s Kitchens (March 26, 2015)
Topic » Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook

Ami Magazine, The Vilna Project: Digitizing the Jewish Treasures of the YIVO Collection (March 25, 2015, picked up by Long Island Jewish World)
Topic » Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections

The Bay Reporter, Before the shadows closed in (March 12, 2015)
Topic » Letters to Afar

Examiner.com, ‘Letters to Afar’ at the Contemporary Jewish Museum (March 8, 2015)
Topic » Letters to Afar

San Francisco Weekly, Letters to Afar: Contemporary Jewish Museum Recalls Poland’s Jewish Community (March 5, 2015)
Topic » Letters to Afar

The San Francisco Examiner, Vintage home movies from Poland at CKN (March 5, 2015)
Topic » Letters to Afar

Bill Nichols, Letters to Afar: Peter Forgacs’ New Installation (March 5, 2015)
Topic » Letters to Afar

Agence France-Presse, Lithuania’s Lost Jewish Archives Come to Life Online (March 2, 2015, picked up in YNetNews, Yahoo! Finance, The Hindu, Jakarta Globe, France24 and 40+ other international news outlets in France, China, the Maldives, and Middle East North Africa)
Topic » Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections

Art and Entertain Me Blog, A Rare Glimpse at Vanished Civilization at the Contemporary Jewish Museum San Francisco (February 25, 2015)
Topic » Letters to Afar

Examiner.com, The CJM Presents Exhibitions of 1930’s Poland (February 23, 2015)
Topic » Letters to Afar

San Jose Mercury News, Bonny Zanardi: Exhibitions examine everyday life before the Holocaust (February 20, 2015)
Topic » Letters to Afar

Jewish News Weekly, Murmurs of a lost world, via Poland’s home movies (February 19, 2015)
Topic » Letters to Afar

Long Island Jewish World, Two Exhibitions, The vanished world of Polish Jewry, and the life of one who left (February 6, 2015)
Topic » Letters to Afar

The Jewish Week, Digitizing the Jewish Past (February 4, 2015)
Topic » Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections

DELFI, Unique Jewish archive from interwar Vilnius to be reassembled in digital library (January 30, 2015)
Topic » Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections

Haaretz, The first professor of Yiddish in the United States Dies (January 29, 2015)
Topic » Max Weinreich (article about the anniversary of Max Weinreich’s death)

Buffalo News, mention of Letters to Afar, Three Minutes in Poland: Discovering a Lost World in a 1938 Family Film by Glenn Kurtz (January 25, 2015)
Topic » Letters to Afar

Financial Times, Letters to Afar, Museum of the City of New York, review (January 21, 2015)
Topic » Letters to Afar

The Forward, YIVO Vilna Project: Archives Go Digital (January 16, 2015, picked up by Aurora in Spanish for Spanish-speaking Israelis)
Topic » Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections

New York Post, Professors finds long-lost home movies playing at NYC museum (January 12, 2015, picked up by New York Times: New York Today, translated into Dutch on The Post Online)
Topic » Letters to Afar

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