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Weinreich, and YIVO collection: announcement of document recovery, 217; efforts to recover, 166–68, 170, 189–92, 195–97, 199–200, 207, 213–15, 220, 221, 223–25, 227; and JDC book distribution, 193; ownership claims on associated collections, 195–96
Weiss, Martin, 84, 123
Wilnaer Zeitung (newspaper), 104–5
Wilno University Library, 1, 25, 32, 56, 57–58, 69, 70, 71, 245
Winter, Ella, 166–67
Wolff, Gerhard, 55
World War I, 54, 205–6
Wunder, Gerhard, 107
Yanai, Yaakov, 183
Yashunsky, Grigorii, 148, 172
Yiddish Daily Forward (newspaper), 89, 93, 242
Yiddish Scientific Institute (YIVO), 20–21; An-ski collection and, 59; death of staff, 168–69; destruction of building, 137, 166, 169–70; efforts to hide archives of, 26; as ERR worksite, 67, 75–79, 83, 87, 95, 97, 112; exhibition on Jews and Bolsheviks, 102–5; and Herzl diary, 91–92; Nazi looting of, 29–32, 59–60, 62; Soviet takeover of, 25, 79, 121–22. See also Book Chamber of the Lithuanian SSR, YIVO documents in; Paper Brigade; Weinreich, Max
Yiddish Scientific Institute (YIVO), New York branch: and announcement of recovered documents, 20, 217–19; efforts to recover collection, 166–68, 170, 189–97, 207, 213–15, 220–27; and Kruk’s diary, 160; new building, inauguration of, 164–65; and record book of Vilna Goan, 54; recovered collection, naming of, 219; as source of hope for Vilna Jews, 89; storage of recovered collection, 227; as wartime YIVO headquarters, 164
YIVO bleter (periodical), 164, 168–69
YIVO News (periodical), 218–19
Yosada, Yankl, 178
Young Guard. See Shomer Ha-Tza’ir
Young Vilna writers’ group, 8–9, 10, 11, 25
Zakheim, Bella, 37
Zavelson, Tzemach, 65, 72, 76, 96
Zeleznikow, Avrom, 65, 96
Ziman, Henrik, 140–41, 157, 175
Zingeris, Emanuel, 249–50, 252
Zionism: Aba Kovner and, 159, 172; Kaczerginski and, 208; Soviet suppression of, 159, 200, 232; Sutzkever and, 200; and UPO, 94. See also Bericha; Israel, founding of
Ziugzda, Juozas, 151, 161, 178
Zuckerman, Yitzhak (Antek), 211
Zunser, Ilia, 65, 77–78
Zuskin, Benjamin, 233
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