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Breaching the Walls of History

Dan Rabinowitz in Jewish Review of Books · 25 Mar

Dan Rabinowitz delves into the contentious reaction sparked by his research on the Strashun Library in Vilna, which drew criticism from the haredi community when published in Yated Neeman.

0 History Jewish Law

Breaching the Walls of History

Dan Rabinowitz in Jewish Review of Books · 25 Mar

Dan Rabinowitz explores the controversy sparked by Rabbi Michoel Sorotzkin's impassioned criticism of his report on the Brisker Rov's visit to the Strashun Library in Vilna.

0 History Culture

Dan Rabinowitz in Jewish Review of Books · 15 Jul 2025

Dan Rabinowitz delves into an unexpected discovery in the archives of the Martynas Mavydas National Library of Lithuania, uncovering library ledgers from the Vilna Strashun Bibliotek, the first Jewish public library.

0 History Culture

100 years collecting Jewish history, 24 million artifacts and only 3 rooms to fit it in

PJ Grisar in Forward · 23 Jun 2025

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research's centennial exhibitions, hosted in its modest New York headquarters, showcase a century of Jewish history and culture through a selection of the institution's vast archive of 24 million artifacts.

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Allan Nadler in Jewish Review of Books · 2 Apr 2020

The article discusses the recent controversial firing of librarians from the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, which houses a significant collection of Yiddish books.

0 Holocaust Culture

A Book and a Sword in the Vilna Ghetto

Cecile E. Kuznitz in Jewish Review of Books · 16 Jun 2018

During the Holocaust in the Vilna Ghetto, Jewish inmates faced intense scrutiny at the ghetto gate, with some risking their lives to smuggle various contraband, including rare rabbinic books, to save the Jewish cultural legacy from Nazi looting.