The 35th annual conference of the Yivo Institute For Jewish Research will convene here Saturday evening to discuss current problems of Jewish culture. The five-day conclave will mark the 20th year of the institute in America.
During the two decades the institute has been functioning in this country, Yivo has built up a library totaling more than 250,000 volumes and an archive containing millions of documents on Jewish history and culture, it was indicated here today in a report issued in connection with the conference. A total of 4,490 books were added to the Yivo library during the past year, the report noted.
Following the arrest last year of Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi war criminal who directed the extermination of 6, 000,000 Jews in Europe, the Institute serviced a large number of requests for information and source material on the Nazi holocaust.
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