ספרנים יקרים, ק I wanted to take a moment to tell you about this very special event and exhibition coming up at YIVO highlighting the library of one of Jewish history’s greatest bibliophiles - Matisyahu Strashun - on Sunday, January 22nd at 1:00pm.
Strashun’s astounding collection was torn apart and scattered while Vilna was under the Nazi occupation. After the war, 40,000 books from the Strashun Library, YIVO, and other Vilna libraries were brought to YIVO in New York, while other books remained in Vilna, and some books were destroyed or lost forever. The conference and exhibition will not only chronicle the dramatic story of the ongoing rescue and reconstruction of this important collection, but will also explore the essential role of libraries in East European and Russian Jewish history and culture. There will be special presentations on YIVO’s multi-year, international Vilna Collections Project. YIVO and the Martynas Mazvydas National Library of Lithuania are in the process of cataloging and digitizing all of the surviving books of the Strashun private library in order to make them available on a free-access website that will launch in 2017. I hope to see you at YIVO for what will be a very important and fascinating afternoon. More information and tickets can be found here: https://www.yivo.org/Strashun-Conference and below. מיר װאַרעמע גרוסן Alex The History of the Strashun Library <http://yivo.convio.net/site/R?i=UmTWqif-AKAN949DYPXVdQ>Sunday, Janary 22, 2017 at 1:00pm Matisyahu Strashun’s astounding collection of books was the core of one of the most important Jewish public libraries of Eastern Europe. Torn apart and scattered during the Holocaust, it is now being digitally rebuilt. Discover the dramatic story of the library’s destruction and the ongoing rescue and reconstruction of this collection. An exhibition of rare books and documents from the original Strashun Library will open January 22, 2017. To celebrate this exhibition opening, scholars Brad Sabin Hill, David Fishman, Zachary Baker, Jeffrey Veidlinger, and Frida Shor will discuss the historical importance of Matisyahu Strashun’s private library, the Strashun Library as a “Jewish Public Library,” Jewish public culture in the Russian Empire, and the Library’s survival during WWII and transition to YIVO. Lyudmila Sholokhova and Roberta Newman (YIVO) and Lara Lempert (National Library of Lithuania) will discuss YIVO’s landmark efforts to steward the Strashun Library into the 21st century and beyond. __________________________________ Alex Weiser, Programs Manager YIVO Institute for Jewish Research 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY 10011 [email protected] | 212.294.6152 yivo.org/ facebook.com/YIVOInstitute/ twitter.com/yivoinstitute __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) ================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: [email protected] To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: [email protected] Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list [email protected] https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran
