A year ago, Jonathan Brent left his job as editorial director of the Yale University Press (although remaining executive editor of the well-known “Annals of Communism” series that he founded there) to become executive director of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, one of the most-comprehensive archives of Jewish life. The move has its synergy.
The institute has just put up the Online Edition of the YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe. In 2008, Yale published the two-volume printed version. The online edition has new interactive maps, documents (like manuscript annotations from Sholem Aleichem and letters from Leon Trotsky), and audio and video clips—and it’s free at yivoencyclopedia.org.
The step to the institute for Brent has led to what he calls “a major step forward for the YIVO Institute in securing its electronic and digital future.”—Karen Winkler
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