The 40th Anniversary Conference of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research opened here last night with a review of its achievements during the 40 years of its existence presented by Dr. Joshua A. Fishman, member of the YIVO planning committee, who presided at the opening session, held at Hunter College, Delegates from numerous communities throughout the country are attending the conference, which will last six days.
Dr. Fishman reported that the YIVO has embarked upon an extensive and diversified program of research, publication and community service for its next decade. Among the projects carried out in 1965 was an in-service course on “Antecedents in American Jewish Life” for teachers in the New York public school system. The course was presented in 15 sessions. Another course, in 10 sessions, was given on standardized Yiddish orthography. A concise Yiddish-English, English-Yiddish dictionary by Prof. Uriel Weinreich, of Columbia University, will be published by the YIVO this year.
The opening session was also addressed by Dr. Salo Baron, of Columbia University, noted Jewish historian, and by Dr. Max Weinreich, vice-chairman of the executive committee of the YIVO. The sessions will discuss various studies on American-Jewish life, including a study on the East European Jewish community’s contribution to the shaping of the American Jewish community, a study on Israeli students in the United States; and a study on contrasting minorities: Mexicans and Jews in the United States.
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