The shtetl is sleeping
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In 1980 200 boxes of ephemera compiled by the YIVO were found in an abandoned Catholic church in Vilnius. The Lithuanians refused to send them to the YIVO in NY. Finally the poems, letters, news of pogroms and other papers were sent for translation in NY but were to be returned to Lithuania.
Publication Name: The New York Times Magazine
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ISSN: 0028-7822
Year: 1995
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The bards of the 'burbs
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A description is presented of events at the West Chester poetry symposium which was cofounded by Dana Gioia and Michael Peich for the promotion of poetry. The growing importance of the symposium is discussed.
Publication Name: Philadelphia Magazine
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0031-7233
Year: 2000
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Arctic adventure
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Will Steger led a team of explorers that left Russia in Mar 1995 and traveled 1,200 miles across the frozen Arctic Ocean to Canada. His goal was to publicize the pollution problems in the Arctic.
Publication Name: Boys' Life
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0006-8608
Year: 1995
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