A single issue, 8 pages (uncut sheets), with some illustrations from photographs. Quarto (10 3/4.x 8 5/8 inches). Original self-wrappers. Paper brittle and browned, some shattering along central fold line, approximately one-inch tear along top edge. Brussels: Der Gezelshaft "Fraynd fun Yidishn Visenshaftlechn Institut in Belgie", 1946.

The only known issue published of this newsletter with text in Yiddish and French, published by the Friends of YIVO in Belgium. The bulletin contains articles on songs in camps and ghettos, reports about Jewish children in DP camps, announcements for a collection of archival material, and congratulations from other YIVO branches in honor of the opening of the Belgian location. There are a few illustrations from photographs scattered throughout.

YIVO was founded in Berlin and Wilno, Poland (now Vilnius, Lithuania) in 1925 as the Yiddish Scientific Institute, and was forced by World War II to relocate its headquarters to New York City in 1940. It is the only prewar Jewish archive and library to have survived the Holocaust. Its materials were looted by the Nazis, but some were rescued and returned to YIVO directly after the war, while other materials turned up decades later.

It is not directly known whether other issues of this bulletin were published, but as of January 2026, OCLC locates only three holdings worldwide, all with only the same first issue.

Book ID: 53606

Price: $750.00