נאריש זשלאָב מענטש<p>"<a href="https://babka.social/tags/YIVO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>YIVO</span></a>’s story, which began in 1925 in <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Vilna" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Vilna</span></a> (now <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Vilnius" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Vilnius</span></a>) as a means to lend scholarly legitimacy to the <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Yiddish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Yiddish</span></a> language and <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Jewish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jewish</span></a> people of Eastern <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Europe</span></a>, took a more existential turn in <a href="https://babka.social/tags/WorldWarII" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WorldWarII</span></a>, by which time YIVO’s headquarters had relocated to <a href="https://babka.social/tags/NewYork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewYork</span></a>, with most of its materials remaining behind."</p><p><a href="https://forward.com/culture/731245/yivo-institute-jewish-research-exhibit-centennial-history/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">forward.com/culture/731245/yiv</span><span class="invisible">o-institute-jewish-research-exhibit-centennial-history/</span></a></p>