YIVO people

American/Latvian linguist (1894–1969)

Russian-born Yiddish poet and Holocaust survivor (1913-2010)

Polish historian (1900-1944)

historian, writer, activist

YIVO (, , short for ) is an organization that preserves, studies, and teaches the cultural history of Jewish life throughout Eastern Europe, Germany, and Russia as well as orthography, lexicography, and other studies related to Yiddish. Established in 1925 in Wilno in the Second Polish Republic (now Vilnius, Lithuania) as the Yiddish Scientific Institute (, ; the word yidisher means both "Yiddish" and "Jewish").

American linguist (1926–1967)

American historian and writer (1915–1990)

Polish politician and academic (1882–1941)

Yiddish literary critic (1883-1955)

Polish poet (1908–1954)

scholar of Yiddish language and literature, editor, journalist, and cultural activist (1887–1941)

American author, linguist, and lexicographer

Latvian academic (1881–1944)

historian (1881–1943)

Russian Jewish physician (1864-1935)

librarian at YIVO and a Yiddish language expert

Ukrainian historian (1891-1970)

Yiddish linguist, writer and educator

Yiddish writer, translator, linguist (1897–1933)

Yiddish-speaking statistician and sociologist (1876-1966)

Polish historian (1911-1978)

Jewish historian

1940s resistance organisation in Vilna