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A Coffee Table Book With 100 Jewish Artifacts

JL;DR SUMMARY The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research has launched a commemorative coffee table book titled "100 Objects: From the Collections of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research," showcasing a diverse array of Jewish artifacts from their extensive archives. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Yiddish LiteratureJewish ImmigrationJewish StudiesYiddish CultureHolocaust HistoryCultural PreservationYivo InstituteEastern European Jewish LifeChaim GradeJewish Artifacts

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Vilnius, Vilnius County, Lithuania
"YIVO, originally the Yidisher Visnshaftlekher Institut, or Yiddish Scientific Institute, was founded on March 24, 1925, in Vilna, Poland (todays Vilnius, Lithuania)."
New York City, New York, United States
"many of the hidden items as well as crates of objects looted by the Nazis were sent to YIVOs headquarters in New York City, where the institution had relocated in 1940."
New York, United States
"In the chapter on antisemitism, a 1922 letter from the Lake Mohonk Mountain House in the Catskills lays bare the bias of the era."

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