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June 10, 2025

One-Hundred Years of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research

Documenting and preserving the culture of East European Jewry.

This year, the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research celebrates the 100th anniversary of its founding, which began with a meeting of a few dozen Jewish intellectuals in the then-Polish city of Wilno—now Vilnius, Lithuania but known always to Jews as Vilna. James Deutsch tells the organization’s story:

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