{"description":"Founded in 1925 in Berlin and Wilno, Poland (now Vilnius, Lithuania) YIVO, or the Yiddish Scientific Institute, became the leading institution for scholarship in Yiddish. It was forced to move its HQ to New York in 1940.\nYIVO CEO and historian Jonathan Brent discusses with Philippe Sands the importance of the Institute for Jewish Research\u2019s discovery, preservation and digitisation of millions of pages of documents and books, spanning over 500 hundred years of Jewish life. What do these materials teach us? Why is this important today? How can these materials affect the Jewish future?\u00a0\nIn Partnership with YIVO","height":1080,"html":"<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%\"><iframe src=\"https://skiv.com/embed/9fiMYMc\" style=\"width:100%;height:100%;position:absolute;left:0;top:0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"fullscreen\" allowfullscreen></iframe></div>","provider_name":"Skiv","provider_url":"https://skiv.com","thumbnail_height":198,"thumbnail_url":"https://cdn.skiv.com/u/MkG8VMM/56a0c976f141411f7f94bfb0c2e4ca30d2bbf159c67a2a010e06f1bf59d5a1ca/thumbnails/thumbnail.jpg","thumbnail_width":352,"title":"YIVO and the Recovery of Jewish Memory","type":"video","url":"https://skiv.com/v/9fiMYMc","version":"1.0","width":1920}