"Those prized possessions are in the #archives of the #YIVO Institute for #Jewish #Research, celebrating its 100 anniversary. The documents, photographs and objects record modern Jewish #history and culture, from the #religious to the #comic, from the horror of the #Holocaust to the joys of Irving Berlin #sheetmusic.
YIVO was established in 1925 in #Vilna, then in #Poland, now #Lithuania, with the support of such luminaries as Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud. Today headquartered in #NewYorkCity, it is an institution that represents the wholeness of the Jewish people, said its executive director, Jonathan Brent.
"There are #Zionistic works, there are #antiZionistic works," he said. "There are materials about #anarchism, there are materials about #Bolshevism, there are materials about #immigration, 'atheism, the entire gamut of Jewish life."
That is not by accident, Brent said. Its founding ethos was that every part of Jewish life was important."
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