Project Grant HAA27722021

The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) awarded a $150,000 Project Grant under the National Historical Publications and Records Grants program (CFDA 89.003) to the Yivo Institute for Jewish Research. The grant funding supports the digitization, preservation, and online publication of Yivo's extensive archival collections related to East European and Russian Jewish studies, including materials on the Yiddish language, literature, folklore, the Holocaust, and the American Jewish...

This $150,000 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program will document the surge in online Yiddish language study and community building that occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic. Led by the National Yiddish Book Center, the project aims to answer questions about the purpose and impacts of these online Yiddish spaces during a period of widespread social isolation. The project will collect...

The Colburn School will receive $749,310 through a Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Save America's Treasures program to improve processing and digitization of the Herbert and Trudl Zipper Archive. The grant-funded work will create finding aids and artifact descriptions to enhance intellectual control over the collection, which documents the influential Austrian-born performing artists and educators. Most of the archive will also be digitized and rehoused to...

The Center for Jewish History, Inc. will receive $700,000 through a three-year Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program. The Center will arrange, describe, and provide intellectual access to the records of the Council of Jewish Federations for the first time. Totaling 1,475 linear feet, the Council's records document 20th century American Jewish philanthropy and public service at the national...

This Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) provides $349,994 to Case Western Reserve University to operate an institute titled "Between Memory and the Archive: Jewish Print Culture." The institute will take place at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and the Cary Graphic Arts Collection at the Rochester Institute of Technology. The institute will examine the evolution of...

The Center for Jewish History, Inc. has received a $350,000 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to reconstruct the building envelope of its collection storage stacks. This project, which is part of the Center's broader sustainability initiative, will improve the preservation of its irreplaceable Jewish historical collections and reduce energy costs and emissions. The grant will cover 90% of the cost to...

The National Archives and Records Administration awarded a $142,549 project grant to the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, doing business as Camp Ramah, to undertake activities related to the preservation, publication, and use of documentary sources relating to United States history. The grant period runs from July 1, 2022 through December 31, 2023. Under the National Historical Publications and Records Grants program (CFDA #89.003), Camp Ramah will preserve, publish, and make available...

This federal Project Grant award of $195,669.00 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) supports the translation and dissemination of the works of Rokhl Brokhes, an early 20th century Yiddish woman writer. The project aims to recover Brokhes' literary legacy, which was nearly lost due to the Nazi invasion of Minsk in 1941, when plans to publish her collected stories, novellas, and plays were abandoned after her murder....

The St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum will digitize audiovisual testimonies, documents, photographs, and artifacts from its collection relating to St. Louis-based Holocaust survivors, liberators, and witnesses. Funded by a $491,563 project grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Museums for America program, the museum will establish a digital asset management system and make these primary sources publicly accessible on its website between September 2022 and August...

This Project Grant award of $200,000, provided by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs under the U.S. Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation (CFDA 19.025) program, supports the physical conservation, inventory, and documentation of written and audio-visual archival materials in Lebanon. Specifically, the funding will enable the storage and digital conservation, inventory, and documentation of archival materials, as well as increase access to these important...