100 Objects from the Collections of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
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Book Talk
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5625 Arlington Avenue Bronx, NY 10471.
A pair of ruby red slippers. A medieval manuscript. A Yiddish folk medicine prescription. These and 97 other objects comprise a new centennial coffee-table-book, 100 Objects from the Collections of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, which chronicles modern Jewish history through 100 objects from the YIVO Archives and Library. This gorgeously illustrated book highlights unique manuscripts, photographs, objects, and other ephemera with accompanying essays by 57 leading scholars. Join the book’s editor, YIVO’s Director of Collections Stefanie Halpern, for a discussion that highlights how this book traces YIVO’s role in documenting key moments in modern Jewish history and culture through its 100 years of collecting.
YIVO is dedicated to the study of the history, language, religion, folkways and material culture of Jews in Eastern Europe and Russia.
About the Speaker
Stefanie Halpern is Director of Collections at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. She received her Ph.D. from the Department of Jewish Literature at the Jewish Theological Seminary and a Masters in archival studies from Clayton State University. Halpern has published on archival theory and practice, Yiddish theater, and Jewish performance and was the assistant curator of the MCNY exhibition From the Bowery to Broadway: New York’s Yiddish Theater.