Yivo celebrating 90
VILNIUS—Despite the relatively modest number of participants in the hall, around fifty, the 90th Anniversary Conference of Yivo in Vilnius was unanimously judged to be a major success with Yiddish scholars and cultural leaders from Buenos Aires, New York, Tel Aviv and Vilnius reading papers in English, Lithuanian, and Yiddish. Four papers were in Yiddish (by Lea Garfinkel, Dovid Katz, Abraham Lichtenbaum and Mordehay Yushkovsky), representing a serious Yiddish-in-Yiddish component of an academic conference for the first time in years. Yiddish greetings were also delivered by Emanuelis Zingeris, parliamentarian and founder of the city’s Jewish museum. There were greetings from the Israeli ambassador and the Lithuanian parliament and foreign ministry.
The conference, jointly organized by Yivo’s New York team in partnership with the Jewish Community of Lithuania, was held at the Seimas (parliament) under the friendly gaze of Rimantas Stankevičius, director of the parliament’s Office of International Affairs, who spared no effort to make all feel welcome, whatever their background or local “political profiles.” There were a number of additional sponsors, including the World Jewish Congress’s new Yiddish center in Vilnius led by Yitzhak Averbukh and Professor Mordehay Yushkovsky.
From: Defending History , 20/9/2015
As every year, a Jewish calendar was published, this time dedicated to Yivo's activities. Last year the calendar was dedicated to Jewish doctors who worked in Lithuania. The New York Yivo delegation presented a vegetarian cookbook by Fanny Levanda translated into English. The original book was published in Vilnius (Vilna) before the war in 1937. The Israeli participants included the members of the Association of Jews from Vilna and vicinity in Israel , chairman Mickey Cantor, Yaarit Glazer, Bella Zion and Rosa Litai
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