The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe explained

The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe
Country:	United States
Language:	English
Genre:	Reference encyclopaedia
Publisher:	Yale University Press Official site
Published:	2008
Media Type:	2 volumes and online
Pages:	2,400
Awards:	Association of Jewish Libraries Judaica Reference Award, 2008
Isbn:	9780300119039
Congress:	P-PXK 12-442
Oclc:	170203576

The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe is a two-volume, English-language reference work on the history and culture of Eastern Europe Jewry in this region, prepared by the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and published by Yale University Press in 2008.^[1]

Print edition

The encyclopedia, 2,400 pages in length, contains over 1,800 alphabetical entries written by 450 contributors, and features over 1,000 illustrations and 55 maps.

Online edition

The online version of the Encyclopedia was officially launched June 10, 2010. It's free to access online.

Awards and honors

• Outstanding Academic Title 2008 ^[2]
• Recipient of the 2009 Dartmouth Medal Honorable Mention by the American Library Association.^[3]
• Honorable Mention for the 2008 PROSE Award in the Multi-volume Reference/Humanities & Social Sciences category, from the Association of American Publishers^[4]
• Winner of the 2008 Judaica Reference Award, given by the Association of Jewish Libraries^[5]

Editorial staff

Editor-in-Chief: Gershon David Hundert, McGill University
Editorial Board:

• Marion Aptroot, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf
• David Assaf, Tel Aviv University
• Gershon Bacon, Bar-Ilan University
• David Engel, New York University
• Immanuel Etkes, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• Edward Fram, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
• Michał T. Galas, Jagiellonian University
• Haim Gertner, Hebrew University
• Avraham Greenbaum, University of Haifa, Hebrew University
• Ze'ev Gries, Ben Gurion University
• Avner Holtzman, Tel Aviv University
• Jack Jacobs, John Jay College, City University of New York
• Samuel Kassow, Trinity College
• Hillel J. Kieval, Washington University in St. Louis
• Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, New York University
• Mikhail Krutikov, University of Michigan
• Dov Levin, Hebrew University
• Olga Litvak, University at Albany
• Rachel Manekin, University of Maryland, College Park
• Alice Nakhimovsky, Colgate University
• Magda Opalski, Victoria, British Columbia
• Elchanan Reiner, Tel Aviv University
• Yaakov Ro'i, Tel Aviv University
• Michael K. Silber, Hebrew University
• Mark Slobin, Wesleyan University
• Shaul Stampfer, Hebrew University
• Michael Stanislawski, Columbia University
• Michael C. Steinlauf, Gratz College
• Adam Teller, University of Haifa
• Chava Turniansky, Hebrew University
• Leon Volovici, Hebrew University
• Chava Weissler, Lehigh University
• Mordechai Zalkin, Ben Gurion University

See also

• List of encyclopedias by branch of knowledge

Bibliography

• The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe, ed. Gershon D. Hundert. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008.

External links

• The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe

Notes and References

1. Publisher description, U.S. Library of Congress catalog
2. Choice, http://www.ala.org/awardsgrants/awards/370/all_years, accessed 3 March 2014
3. Dartmouth Medal, http://www.ala.org/rusa/awards/dartmouth, accessed 3 March 2014
4. Association of American Publishers Announces 2008 PROSE Award Winners , http://www.proseawards.com/docs/2008%20PROSE%20Winners%20Press%20Release.doc, accessed 3 March 2014
5. Reference & Bibliography Awards, http://www.jewishlibraries.org/main/Awards/ReferenceBibliographyAwards.aspx, accessed 3 March 2014