The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe
Encyclopedia
The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe is a two-volume, English-language
reference work on the history and culture of Eastern Europe Jewry
in this region, prepared by the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
and published by Yale University Press
in 2008.
The Encyclopedia, 2,400 pages in length, contains over 1,800 alphabetical entries written by 450 contributors, and features over 1,000 illustrations and 55 maps. The online version of the Encyclopedia was officially launched June 10, 2010.
Editorial Board:
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
reference work on the history and culture of Eastern Europe Jewry
History of the Jews in Europe
Judaism in Europe has a long history, beginning with the conquest of the Eastern Mediterranean by Pompey in 63 BCE, thus beginning the History of the Jews in the Roman Empire, though likely Alexandrian Jews had migrated to Rome slightly before Pompey's conquest of the East.The pre-World War...
in this region, prepared by the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
YIVO
YIVO, , established in 1925 in Wilno, Poland as the Yidisher Visnshaftlekher Institut , or Yiddish Scientific Institute, is a source for orthography, lexicography, and other studies related to the Yiddish language...
and published by Yale University Press
Yale University Press
Yale University Press is a book publisher founded in 1908 by George Parmly Day. It became an official department of Yale University in 1961, but remains financially and operationally autonomous....
in 2008.
The Encyclopedia, 2,400 pages in length, contains over 1,800 alphabetical entries written by 450 contributors, and features over 1,000 illustrations and 55 maps. The online version of the Encyclopedia was officially launched June 10, 2010.
Editoral staff
Editor-in-Chief: Gershon David Hundert, McGill UniversityMcGill University
Mohammed Fathy is a public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The university bears the name of James McGill, a prominent Montreal merchant from Glasgow, Scotland, whose bequest formed the beginning of the university...
Editorial Board:
- Marion Aptroot, Heinrich Heine University, DüsseldorfDüsseldorfDüsseldorf is the capital city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and centre of the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region.Düsseldorf is an important international business and financial centre and renowned for its fashion and trade fairs. Located centrally within the European Megalopolis, the...
- David Assaf, Tel Aviv UniversityTel Aviv UniversityTel Aviv University is a public university located in Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel. With nearly 30,000 students, TAU is Israel's largest university.-History:...
- Gershon Bacon, Bar-Ilan UniversityBar-Ilan UniversityBar-Ilan University is a university in Ramat Gan of the Tel Aviv District, Israel.Established in 1955, Bar Ilan is now Israel's second-largest academic institution. It has nearly 26,800 students and 1,350 faculty members...
- David EngelDavid EngelDavid Engel is an American historian and Professor of Holocaust and Judaic Studies at New York University. Dr. Engel holds a Ph.D...
, New York UniversityNew York UniversityNew York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan... - Immanuel Etkes, Hebrew University of JerusalemHebrew University of JerusalemThe Hebrew University of Jerusalem ; ; abbreviated HUJI) is Israel's second-oldest university, after the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. The Hebrew University has three campuses in Jerusalem and one in Rehovot. The world's largest Jewish studies library is located on its Edmond J...
- Edward Fram, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
- Michał T. Galas, Jagiellonian UniversityJagiellonian UniversityThe Jagiellonian University was established in 1364 by Casimir III the Great in Kazimierz . It is the oldest university in Poland, the second oldest university in Central Europe and one of the oldest universities in the world....
- Haim Gertner, Hebrew University
- Avraham Greenbaum, University of HaifaUniversity of HaifaThe University of Haifa is a university in Haifa, Israel.The University of Haifa was founded in 1963 by Haifa mayor Abba Hushi, to operate under the academic auspices of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem....
, Hebrew University - Ze'ev Gries, Ben Gurion University
- Avner Holtzman, Tel Aviv University
- Jack JacobsJack Jacobs"Indian" Jack Jacobs was an American and Canadian football player in the National Football League and Western Interprovincial Football Union. He was a charter member of the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 1963....
, John Jay College, City University of New YorkCity University of New YorkThe City University of New York is the public university system of New York City, with its administrative offices in Yorkville in Manhattan. It is the largest urban university in the United States, consisting of 23 institutions: 11 senior colleges, six community colleges, the William E... - Samuel KassowSamuel KassowDr. Samuel D. Kassow is an American historian of the history of Ashkenazi Jewry. He was born in a displaced persons' camp in Stuttgart, Germany. His mother survived because a classmate hid her and her sister in a cave underneath the barn on his family's farm, his father was arrested by the...
, Trinity CollegeTrinity College (Connecticut)Trinity College is a private, liberal arts college in Hartford, Connecticut. Founded in 1823, it is the second-oldest college in the state of Connecticut after Yale University. The college enrolls 2,300 students and has been coeducational since 1969. Trinity offers 38 majors and 26 minors, and has... - Hillel J. Kieval, Washington University in St. LouisWashington University in St. LouisWashington University in St. Louis is a private research university located in suburban St. Louis, Missouri. Founded in 1853, and named for George Washington, the university has students and faculty from all fifty U.S. states and more than 110 nations...
- Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, New York University
- Mikhail Krutikov, University of MichiganUniversity of MichiganThe University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...
- Dov LevinDov LevinDon Levin was an Israeli jurist and Supreme Court justice in the years 1982–1995.Levin was born in Tel Aviv to Eliyahu and Dvora Levin, in a family of rabbis and scholars, descendants of the Vilna Gaon and residents of Israel since the mid-19th century...
, Hebrew University - Olga Litvak, University at Albany
- Rachel Manekin, University of Maryland, College ParkUniversity of Maryland, College ParkThe University of Maryland, College Park is a top-ranked public research university located in the city of College Park in Prince George's County, Maryland, just outside Washington, D.C...
- Alice Nakhimovsky, Colgate UniversityColgate UniversityColgate University is a private liberal arts college in Hamilton, New York, USA. The school was founded in 1819 as a Baptist seminary and later became non-denominational. It is named for the Colgate family who greatly contributed to the university's endowment in the 19th century.Colgate has 52...
- Magda Opalski, Victoria, British Columbia
- Elchanan Reiner, Tel Aviv University
- Yaakov Ro'i, Tel Aviv University
- Michael K. Silber, Hebrew University
- Mark SlobinMark SlobinMark Slobin is an American scholar and ethnomusicologist who has written extensively on the subject of East European Jewish music and klezmer music. He is a Professor of Music and American Studies at Wesleyan University....
, Wesleyan UniversityWesleyan UniversityWesleyan University is a private liberal arts college founded in 1831 and located in Middletown, Connecticut. According to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Wesleyan is the only Baccalaureate College in the nation that emphasizes undergraduate instruction in the arts and... - Shaul StampferShaul StampferShaul Stampfer is a researcher of East European Jewry specializing in Lithuanian yeshivas, and Jewish demography, migration and education.-Biography:...
, Hebrew University - Michael StanislawskiMichael StanislawskiMichael F. Stanislawski is the Nathan J. Miller Professor of Jewish History at Columbia University. He obtained his B.A. , M.A. Ph.D. from Harvard University, and has been at Columbia since 1980. His dissertation, "Tsar Nicholas I and the Jews: The Transformation of Jewish Society in Russia,...
, Columbia UniversityColumbia UniversityColumbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the... - Michael C. SteinlaufMichael C. SteinlaufMichael C. Steinlauf is an Associate Professor of History at Gratz College, Pennsylvania. Steinlauf teaches Jewish history and culture in Eastern Europe and Polish-Jewish relations. He is the author and editor focused on studies of Jewish popular culture in Poland. His work has been translated into...
, Gratz CollegeGratz CollegeGratz College is a general college of Jewish studies founded in 1895 offering a broad array of credentials and programs in virtually every area of higher Judaic learning to aspiring Jewish educators, communal professionals, lay people and others seeking to become more knowledgeable of... - Adam Teller, University of HaifaUniversity of HaifaThe University of Haifa is a university in Haifa, Israel.The University of Haifa was founded in 1963 by Haifa mayor Abba Hushi, to operate under the academic auspices of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem....
- Chava Turniansky, Hebrew University
- Leon Volovici, Hebrew University
- Chava Weissler, Lehigh UniversityLehigh UniversityLehigh University is a private, co-educational university located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in the Lehigh Valley region of the United States. It was established in 1865 by Asa Packer as a four-year technical school, but has grown to include studies in a wide variety of disciplines...
- Mordechai Zalkin, Ben Gurion University