YIVO and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture

Dr. Cecile Kuznitz, director of Jewish Studies at Bard College and author of YIVO and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture: Scholarship for the Yiddish Nation retraces with host Gilad Halpern the history of the 90-year-old Yiddish Scientific Institute from Interwar Poland to Postwar America.

Song: Tuna ft. Shlomi Saranga - Lama Lo Achshav

This episode originally aired on Oct. 16, 2015