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| | NYU > Office of Public Affairs > NYU New Home of Intensive Program in Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture |
 | | The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research’s Uriel Weinreich Program in Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture, established in 1968, also includes an in-depth exploration of the literature and culture of East European/American Jewry. |
 | | Founded in 1925 in Vilna, Poland as the Yiddish Scientific Institute and headquartered in New York since 1940, YIVO is devoted to the history, society, and culture of Ashkenazic Jewry, and the influence of that culture as it has developed in the Americas. |
 | | As the only pre-Holocaust scholarly institution to transfer its mission to the United States, YIVO is the preeminent center for the study of East European Jewry and Yiddish language, literature, and folklore. |
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