Dina Abramowicz

Dina Abramowicz (; 1909 – April 3, 2000 Her parents were teachers. Though her first language was Russian, when the Germans occupied Vilnius during World War I, they allowed Jews to establish their own schools. Abramowicz's parents sent her to a Yiddish-language elementary and high schools. During her university years she studied Polish literature. In 1936, Abramowicz graduated from Stefan Batory University with a degree in humanities.

Career Her first job was at a children's library in Vilnius, the Kinderbibliotek. In 1953, Abramowicz received her master's degree in Science from the School of Library Science at Columbia University.

Awards

Dr. Chaim Zhitlowsky Prize, 1987, Yiddisher Kultur Farband. Dr. Berl Frimer Prize for Cultural Achievement, 1992, Congress for Jewish Culture. Leonard Wertheimer Multicultural Public Library Service Award, 1994, Public Library Association of the American Library Association.

Publications

Bibliographies

Yiddish literature in English translation; books published 1945–1967. New York: Yivo Institute for Jewish Research, 1967. Yiddish literature in English translation : list of books in print. New York : Yivo Institute for Jewish Research, 1976. "Die Bibliothek im Wilnaer Ghetto, 1941–1943" in: Bücher und Bibliotheken in Ghettos und Lagern (1933–1945). Kleine historische Reihe der Zeitschrift Laurentius, Band 3. Hannover: Laurentius, 1991.

Book chapters

"The library in the Vilna ghetto" in: The Holocaust and the book: destruction and preservation, edited by Jonathan Rose. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2001.

Conference proceedings

Guardians of a tragic heritage: reminiscences and observations of an eyewitness. New York: National Foundation for Jewish Culture/Council of Archives and Research Libraries in Jewish Studies, 1999.

Encyclopedia entries

"Di Geto-Biblyotek in Vilne" [The ghetto library of Vilna]. In Lite (Lithuania). Vol. 1, edited by Mendel Sudarsky, Uriah Katzenelenbogen, and J. Kissin (1951), cols. 1671–1678.

Journal articles

"Ethnic Survival in the New World: Yiddish Juvenilia." Wilson Library Bulletin 50, no. 2 (1975): 138–145. "The World of My Parents: Reminiscences." YIVO Annual 23 (1996): 105–157. "The YIVO Library." Jewish Book Annual 24 (1967–1968): 87–102. "Yom Kippur, 1941–1945: Memories of the Vilna Ghetto." Jewish Frontier 14, no. 1 (1947): 18–22.