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YIVO, founded in 1925, is a centre for scholarship on East European Jewish history, language and culture. This guide is a repository-level finding aid to the archives (over 1200 collections), including a brief history of the institute and archives, and descriptive entries on each collection.

The Yivo Institute for Jewish research studies the past and current social, economic, and cultural life of the Jews, maintains a central repository for published and unpublished material and makes available in printed form the data accumulated through documentation and research.