The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe
The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe is a two-volume, English-language reference work on the history and culture of Eastern Europe Jewry in this region, prepared by the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and published by Yale University Press in 2008.[1] The Encyclopedia, 2,400 pages in length, contains over 1,800 alphabetical entries written by 450 contributors, and features over 1,000 illustrations and 55 maps. The online version of the Encyclopedia was officially launched June 10, 2010.
Editoral staff
Editor-in-Chief: Gershon David Hundert, McGill University
Editorial Board:
- Marion Aptroot, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf
- David Assaf, Tel Aviv University
- Gershon Bacon, Bar-Ilan University
- David Engel, New York University
- Immanuel Etkes, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Edward Fram, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
- Michał T. Galas, Jagiellonian University
- Haim Gertner, Hebrew University
- Avraham Greenbaum, University of Haifa, Hebrew University
- Ze'ev Gries, Ben Gurion University
- Avner Holtzman, Tel Aviv University
- Jack Jacobs, John Jay College, City University of New York
- Samuel Kassow, Trinity College
- Hillel J. Kieval, Washington University in St. Louis
- Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, New York University
- Mikhail Krutikov, University of Michigan
- Dov Levin, Hebrew University
- Olga Litvak, University at Albany
- Rachel Manekin, University of Maryland, College Park
- Alice Nakhimovsky, Colgate University
- Magda Opalski, Victoria, British Columbia
- Elchanan Reiner, Tel Aviv University
- Yaakov Ro'i, Tel Aviv University
- Michael K. Silber, Hebrew University
- Mark Slobin, Wesleyan University
- Shaul Stampfer, Hebrew University
- Michael Stanislawski, Columbia University
- Michael C. Steinlauf, Gratz College
- Adam Teller, University of Haifa
- Chava Turniansky, Hebrew University
- Leon Volovici, Hebrew University
- Chava Weissler, Lehigh University
- Mordechai Zalkin, Ben Gurion University
See also
References
Bibliography
- The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe, ed. Gershon D. Hundert. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. ISBN 9780300119039
External links