of Lithuania, Brent established the landmark Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections project at The YIVO Institute to preserve and digitize over 1.5 million documents and approximately 12,200 books representing 500 years of Jewish history in Eastern Europe and Russia. In addition to New York City and Buenos Aires, the Chicago YIVO Society is a third center active today. Publications YIVO has undertaken many major scholarly publication projects, the most recent being The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe, published in March 2008 in cooperation with Yale University Press. Under the leadership of editor-in-chief Gershon David Hundert, professor of history and of Jewish Studies at McGill University in Montreal, this unprecedented reference work systematically represents the history and culture of Eastern European Jews from their first settlement in the region to the present day. More than 1,800 alphabetical entries encompass a vast range of topics including religion, folklore, politics, art, music, theater, language and literature, places, organizations, intellectual movements, and important figures. The two-volume set also features more than 1,000 illustrations and 55 maps. With original contributions from an international team of 450 distinguished scholars, the encyclopedia covers the region between Germany and the Ural Mountains, from which more than 2.5 million Jews emigrated to the United States between 1870 and 1920. See also Academy of the Hebrew Language, for Hebrew Autoridad Nasionala del Ladino, for Ladino Dina Abramowicz (long-time YIVO librarian) Yiddish Book Center League for Yiddish References Notes Bibliography Prager, Leonard, "Yiddish Studies in Israel III", Mendele, Vol. 6.277, April 4, 1997. Further reading Dawidowicz, Lucy S. From that Place and Time: A Memoir 1938 - 1947. New York: Norton, 1989. *Fishman, David E. Embers Plucked From The Fire: The Rescue of Jewish Cultural Treasures in Vilna New York: YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, 1996. (in English and Yiddish) Kaiser, Menachem. "Paper brigade: The incredible story of the Vilnius archive". The Jewish Quarterly, Winter 2022. External links The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe YIVO (Yidisher Visnshaftlekher Institut) – The Yiddish Scientific Institute in the online exhibition The Jerusalem of Lithuania: The Story of the Jewish Community of Vilna by Yad Vashem Guide to the Records of the YIVO Aspirantur, 1934-1940 YIVO Digital Archive on Jewish Life in Poland Jews and Judaism in Manhattan Jewish studies research institutes Publishing companies established in 1925 Bundism in North America Book publishing companies of the United States Language regulators