{{short description|English-language reference work}} {{Infobox book | name = The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe | image = The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe.jpg| caption = | editor = Gershon David Hundert | illustrator = | country = United States | language = English | subject = Eastern Europe Jewry | genre = Reference encyclopaedia | publisher = Yale University Press <br />[https://www.yivoencyclopedia.com Official site] | published = 2008 | release_date = | media_type = 2 volumes and online | pages = 2,400 | awards = Association of Jewish Libraries Judaica Reference Award, 2008 | isbn = 9780300119039 | dewey = | congress =P-PXK 12-442 | oclc = 170203576 | wikisource = }}
'''''The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe''''' is a two-volume, English-language reference work on the history and culture of Eastern Europe Jewry in this region, prepared by the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and published by Yale University Press in 2008.<ref>Publisher description, U.S. Library of Congress catalog</ref>
==Print edition==
The encyclopedia, 2,400 pages in length, contains over 1,800 alphabetical entries written by 450 contributors, and features over 1,000 illustrations and 55 maps.
==Online edition== The online version of the Encyclopedia was officially launched June 10, 2010. It's free to access [http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/ online].
==Awards and honors== *Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries Outstanding Academic Title 2008 <ref>''Choice'', [http://www.ala.org/awardsgrants/awards/370/all_years], accessed 3 March 2014</ref> *Recipient of the 2009 Dartmouth Medal Honorable Mention by the American Library Association.<ref>''Dartmouth Medal'', [http://www.ala.org/rusa/awards/dartmouth], accessed 3 March 2014</ref> *Honorable Mention for the 2008 PROSE Award in the Multi-volume Reference/Humanities & Social Sciences category, from the Association of American Publishers<ref>''Association of American Publishers Announces 2008 PROSE Award Winners '', [http://www.proseawards.com/docs/2008%20PROSE%20Winners%20Press%20Release.doc], accessed 3 March 2014</ref> *Winner of the 2008 Judaica Reference Award, given by the Association of Jewish Libraries<ref>''Reference & Bibliography Awards'', [http://www.jewishlibraries.org/main/Awards/ReferenceBibliographyAwards.aspx] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140306230022/http://www.jewishlibraries.org/main/Awards/ReferenceBibliographyAwards.aspx |date=2014-03-06 }}, accessed 3 March 2014</ref>
==Editorial staff== Editor-in-Chief: Gershon David Hundert, McGill University <br> Editorial Board: *Marion Aptroot, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf *David Assaf, Tel Aviv University *Gershon Bacon, Bar-Ilan University *David Engel, New York University *Immanuel Etkes, Hebrew University of Jerusalem *Edward Fram, Ben Gurion University of the Negev *Michał T. Galas, Jagiellonian University *Haim Gertner, Hebrew University *Avraham Greenbaum, University of Haifa, Hebrew University *Ze'ev Gries, Ben Gurion University *Avner Holtzman, Tel Aviv University *Jack Jacobs, John Jay College, City University of New York *Samuel Kassow, Trinity College *Hillel J. Kieval, Washington University in St. Louis *Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, New York University *Mikhail Krutikov, University of Michigan *Dov Levin, Hebrew University *Olga Litvak, University at Albany *Rachel Manekin, University of Maryland, College Park *Alice Nakhimovsky, Colgate University *Magda Opalski, Victoria, British Columbia *Elchanan Reiner, Tel Aviv University *Yaakov Ro'i, Tel Aviv University *Michael K. Silber, Hebrew University *Mark Slobin, Wesleyan University *Shaul Stampfer, Hebrew University *Michael Stanislawski, Columbia University *Michael C. Steinlauf, Gratz College *Adam Teller, University of Haifa *Chava Turniansky, Hebrew University *Leon Volovici, Hebrew University *Chava Weissler, Lehigh University *Mordechai Zalkin, Ben Gurion University
==See also== *List of encyclopedias by branch of knowledge
==References== {{Reflist}}
==Bibliography== * ''The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe'', ed. Gershon D. Hundert. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. {{ISBN|978-0-300-11903-9}}
==External links== *[http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org ''The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe'']
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