ד-פּאַקס<p>"<a href="https://babka.social/tags/YIVO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>YIVO</span></a>, which turns 100 this month, is forever associated with <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Vilna" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Vilna</span></a> (modern day Vilnius, Lithuania) and Eastern Europe, but it was originally supposed to be based in Berlin.</p><p>The idea for the institute came at a unique inflection point in history. After World War I, <a href="https://babka.social/tags/diaspora" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>diaspora</span></a> nationalist movements anticipated new government resources from minority treaties, international agreements granting rights to minority populations in countries looking to join the League of Nations. There was an urgency to documenting a way of life that seemed to be fading."</p><p>“The First World War really had a huge impact in the level of destruction in the areas of densest <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Jewish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jewish</span></a> settlement in the world, which were the <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Yiddish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Yiddish</span></a>-speaking communities in Eastern Europe,” Cecile Kuznetz, author of YIVO and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture: Scholarship for the Yiddish Nation, told me."</p><p><a href="https://forward.com/culture/705433/yivo-institute-for-jewish-research-100-years-yiddish/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">forward.com/culture/705433/yiv</span><span class="invisible">o-institute-for-jewish-research-100-years-yiddish/</span></a></p>
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CBC Calgary<p>What this historic rural Alberta pool hall really needs is a new barber<br>Alberta's oldest pool hall and barbershop is on the hunt for a new barber. The historic establishment in the Village of Vilna, 150 kilometres northeast of Edmonton, has been a community fixture for more than 100 years.<br><a href="https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/tags/business" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>business</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/tags/community" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>community</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/tags/Alberta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Alberta</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/tags/Vilna" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Vilna</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/tags/Edmonton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Edmonton</span></a><br><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/vilna-pool-hall-and-barbershop-alberta-history-vilna-1.7454923?cmp=rss" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/vi</span><span class="invisible">lna-pool-hall-and-barbershop-alberta-history-vilna-1.7454923?cmp=rss</span></a></p>
CBC Top Stories<p>What this historic rural Alberta pool hall really needs is a new barber<br>Alberta's oldest pool hall and barbershop is on the hunt for a new barber. The historic establishment in the Village of Vilna, 150 kilometres northeast of Edmonton, has been a community fixture for more than 100 years.<br><a href="https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/tags/business" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>business</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/tags/community" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>community</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/tags/Alberta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Alberta</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/tags/Vilna" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Vilna</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/tags/Edmonton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Edmonton</span></a><br><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/vilna-pool-hall-and-barbershop-alberta-history-vilna-1.7454923?cmp=rss" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/vi</span><span class="invisible">lna-pool-hall-and-barbershop-alberta-history-vilna-1.7454923?cmp=rss</span></a></p>
CBC Edmonton<p>What this historic rural Alberta pool hall really needs is a new barber<br>Alberta's oldest pool hall and barbershop is on the hunt for a new barber. The historic establishment in the Village of Vilna, 150 kilometres northeast of Edmonton, has been a community fixture for more than 100 years.<br><a href="https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/tags/business" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>business</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/tags/community" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>community</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/tags/Alberta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Alberta</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/tags/Vilna" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Vilna</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/tags/Edmonton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Edmonton</span></a><br><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/vilna-pool-hall-and-barbershop-alberta-history-vilna-1.7454923?cmp=rss" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/vi</span><span class="invisible">lna-pool-hall-and-barbershop-alberta-history-vilna-1.7454923?cmp=rss</span></a></p>
CBC Canada<p>What this historic rural Alberta pool hall really needs is a new barber<br>Alberta's oldest pool hall and barbershop is on the hunt for a new barber. The historic establishment in the Village of Vilna, 150 kilometres northeast of Edmonton, has been a community fixture for more than 100 years.<br><a href="https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/tags/business" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>business</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/tags/community" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>community</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/tags/Alberta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Alberta</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/tags/Vilna" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Vilna</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/tags/Edmonton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Edmonton</span></a><br><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/vilna-pool-hall-and-barbershop-alberta-history-vilna-1.7454923?cmp=rss" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/vi</span><span class="invisible">lna-pool-hall-and-barbershop-alberta-history-vilna-1.7454923?cmp=rss</span></a></p>
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