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- initialism Institute for Jewish Research
Etymologies
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Well, while perhaps not clear for general uninitiated, nevertheless, YIVO is Yiddish standard transcription. (ie YIVO%correspondent German: bay%bei, mayn%mein; but above I added apostrophe to signal syllable, ru'e, dort'n, which is not in Yivo ...)
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I think calling YIVO orthography long-standing is a bit of an over-statement.
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Dr. Paul Glasser, associate dean of the Max Weinreich Center of the YIVO Institute, very kindly helped me with Yiddish translations.
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Dr. Paul Glasser, associate dean of the Max Weinreich Center of the YIVO Institute, very kindly helped me with Yiddish translations.
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Sklamberg still works at YIVO, but today he is "the caretaker of the collection."
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Dr. Paul Glasser, associate dean of the Max Weinreich Center of the YIVO Institute, very kindly helped me with Yiddish translations.
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Dr. Paul Glasser, associate dean of the Max Weinreich Center of the YIVO Institute, very kindly helped me with Yiddish translations.
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Among the respondents was Lorin Sklamberg, a Los Angeles-born, classically trained musician who had a day job at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.
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Although she never finished her program at Columbia University, Lucy Dawidowicz began her academic career at YIVO (after it moved to New York in 1940).
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In 1976, a year after Kalich's death, Picon sold Chez Schmendrick, giving pictures, plaques, and books to YIVO, and rented a house in Cortland.
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