YIVO and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture
Author
Professor Cecile Esther Kuznitz (Bard College, New York)
Using documents believed destroyed by Hitler and Stalin, this book is the first history of YIVO, the original center for Yiddish scholarship. Founded after World War I, YIVO became the apex of secular Yiddish culture and fought for Jewish rights throughout the world at a time of rising anti-Semitism.