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YIVO digitizes writer Chaim Grade’s archive, a Yiddish treasure with a soap opera backstory

JL;DR SUMMARY YIVO Institute for Jewish Research has completed the digitization of the extensive archives of Chaim Grade, a significant Yiddish writer whose legacy was fiercely protected by his widow Inna Grade. 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 LiteratureVilnaYivoNew York Jewish WeekDigitizationIsaac Bashevis SingerArchivesChaim GradeMax GrossInna Grade

Places mentioned

Manhattan, New York, United States
"They are now stored in YIVO headquarters on Manhattans W. 16th Street."
Vilna, Vilnius County, Lithuania
"The writer was born in Vilna (now in Lithuania) in 1910."
Ukraine
"Inna Hecker was born in Ukraine in 1925, and met Grade in Moscow during the war."
Israel
"for Jewish Research and the National Library of Israel."

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