YIVO is an
acronym for the
Yiddish name of the Yiddish Scientific Institute, which was founded in
Vilna,
Poland in
1925. It is a
repository of manuscripts of
Sholem Aleichem and
Biaklik, records of
Jewish communal governments, and other historical documents and books. YIVO is now the
standard for Yiddish
orthography/
spelling. The institute provides weekly Yiddish language courses as well as an intensive summer course.
Have a look at:
- www.yivoinstitute.org, for the main site
- http://www.yivoinstitute.org/yiddish/yiddish.htm, for information on YIVO and Yiddish; it also has many Yiddish-related links.
- http://shakti.cc.trincoll.edu/~mendele/roman.htm, for the YIVO version of Yiddish transliteration
Thanks to tres equis for the links!