YIVO Bruce and Francesca Cernia Slovin Online Museum
Beba Epstein: The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Girl
The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research launched its landmark YIVO Bruce and Francesca Cernia Slovin Online Museum, available free of charge to the global public at museum.yivo.org. The inaugural interactive exhibition, Beba Epstein: The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Girl, explores East European Jewish life in the 20th and 21st centuries through the true story of one teenage girl. Through Beba’s story, the audience will learn about many aspects of Jewish life in Eastern Europe including family dynamics, the school system and curriculum, leisure activities, immigration, as well as antisemitism and the Holocaust.
The exhibition is divided into ten chapters that span Beba’s life, using interactive storytelling to unite over 200 artifacts from YIVO’s archives. Visitors are able to explore various depths of information at their own pace through several interactive experiences that feature animations, games, comics, 3D model explorations, and more.
The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research launched its landmark YIVO Bruce and Francesca Cernia Slovin Online Museum, available free of charge to the global public at museum.yivo.org. The inaugural interactive exhibition, Beba Epstein: The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Girl, explores East European Jewish life in the 20th and 21st centuries through the true story of one teenage girl. Through Beba’s story, the audience will learn about many aspects of Jewish life in Eastern Europe including family dynamics, the school system and curriculum, leisure activities, immigration, as well as antisemitism and the Holocaust.
The exhibition is divided into ten chapters that span Beba’s life, using interactive storytelling to unite over 200 artifacts from YIVO’s archives. Visitors are able to explore various depths of information at their own pace through several interactive experiences that feature
About YIVO
The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is dedicated to the preservation and study of the history and culture of East European Jewry worldwide. For nearly a century, YIVO has pioneered new forms of Jewish scholarship, research, education, and cultural expression. Our public programs and exhibitions, as well as online and on-site courses, extend our global outreach and enable us to share our vast resources. The YIVO Archives contains more than 23 million unique items and YIVO’s Library has over 400,000 volumes—the single largest resource for such study in the world.
