Tagged YIVO

What a Bergen-Belsen prenup teaches us about Jewish resilience

A post-Holocaust marriage contract features a Jewish star between the words Bergen-Belsen, a notorious concentration camp. (Archives of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research)
March 5, 2019 / Henry Abramson, JTA

(JTA) — It is jarring to see a Star of David placed between the Hebrew transliteration of the words Bergen-Belsen, the notorious Nazi concentration camp where 37,000 Jews, including Anne Frank, were murdered – and on a marriage contract, no less. But there it was, a small bureaucratic form, typed in Rabbinic… Read more »

A YIVO conference finds a new audience for Yiddish anarchism

Some 450 people attended a conference at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in New York on the history of Yiddish Anarchism, Jan. 20, 2019. (JTA Photo)
January 22, 2019 / Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA

NEW YORK (JTA) — To the degree that you know anything about Yiddish anarchism, it probably boils down to one name: Emma Goldman. And even then you are probably more familiar with Goldman as an immigrant firebrand and ur-“nasty woman” than for the truly radical content of her political… Read more »