YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe

The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe (YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe ) is an English-language reference work on the history and culture of Eastern European Judaism in this region, produced by YIVO , the Yiddish Scientific Institute in New York , and published in 2008 by Yale University Press was published.

Subject

The two-volume work covers the history and culture from their first settlement in the region to the present day. Editor-in-chief of the encyclopedia was the Judaist Gershon David Hundert (born 1946) from the Department of Jewish Studies at McGill University in Montreal , Quebec , Canada . The lexicon in its printed edition comprises 2,400 pages with more than 1,800 alphabetical entries covering a wide range of topics, including religion, folklore, politics, art, music, theater, language and literature, places, organizations, intellectual movements and important personalities. It also contains over 1,000 illustrations and 55 maps. The contributions come from an international team of 450 distinguished scientists. The encyclopedia covers the region between Germany and the Urals, from which, according to the publisher, more than 2.5 million Jews emigrated to the United States between 1870 and 1920, with the majority of Jewish immigrants to North America coming from Eastern Europe.

Author Joseph Croitoru points out that

“For the first time […] the extensive memorials of the survivors [was] taken into account, the focus being less on the extermination of the Jews than on a comprehensive presentation of Jewish life in Eastern Europe. Behind this is the publisher's credo that Eastern European Judaism must not be defined exclusively through the Shoah. "

The encyclopedia was published in 2008 in print in two volumes in New Haven, Conn. [u. a.] at Yale University Press (2008). Your entries have also been freely accessible online since 2010.

Editorial team

Editor-in-Chief: Gershon David Hundert , McGill University
Editor-in- Chief :

• Marion Aptroot , Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
• David Assaf , Tel Aviv University
• Gershon Bacon , Bar Ilan University
• David Engel , New York University
• Immanuel Etkes , Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• Edward Fram , Ben Gurion University of the Negev
• Michał T. Galas , Jagiellonian University
• Haim Gertner , Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• Avraham Greenbaum , University of Haifa , Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• Ze'ev Gries , Ben Gurion University of the Negev
• Avner Holtzman , Tel Aviv University
• Jack Jacobs, John Jay College , City University of New York
• Samuel Kassow , Trinity College
• Hillel J. Kieval , Washington University in St. Louis
• Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett , New York University
• Mikhail Krutikov, University of Michigan
• Dov Levin , Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• Olga Litvak , University at Albany, The State University of New York
• Rachel Manekin , University of Maryland, College Park
• Alice Nakhimovsky , Colgate University
• Magda Opalski , University of Victoria
• Elchanan Reiner , Tel Aviv University
• Yaakov Ro'i , Tel Aviv University
• Michael K. Silber , Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• Mark Slobin , Wesleyan University
• Shaul Stampfer , Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• Michael Stanislawski , Columbia University
• Michael C. Steinlauf , Gratz College
• Adam Teller , University of Haifa
• Chava Turniansky , Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• Leon Volovici , Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• Chava Weissler , Lehigh University
• Mordechai Zalkin , Ben Gurion University of the Negev

See also

• Gershon David Hundert (English)
• Encyclopaedia Judaica / Jewish Encyclopedia / Jüdisches Lexikon

References and footnotes

1. ↑ yalebooks.yale.edu
2. ↑ Life Beyond the Holocaust - Joseph Croitoru (faz.net, accessed January 17, 2019)

Bibliographical information

• The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe , ed. Gershon D. Hundert. New Haven : Yale University Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-300-11903-9

Web links

• The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe
• Preface to the Print Edition (Gershon David Hundert)

• Life Beyond the Holocaust - Joseph Croitoru (faz.net)
• OCLC
• SUB GÖ

YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe (alternative names of the lemma)
The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe; YIVO encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe; YIVO Encyclopedia of Eastern European Judaism; YIVO Encyclopedia of Eastern European Jews; YIVO Encyclopedia on Jewish History in Eastern Europe; YIVO encyclopedia on Eastern European Judaism