Starting in January 2014, Stanford University Libraries (SUL) and the Museum of Occupations are conducting a campaign to collect Estonian expat community members’ family photobooks. The goal of the project is to help preserve the […]

From EstonianWorld.com: Estonian conductor Tõnu Kaljuste has won a Grammy Award in the Best Choral Performance category for his work on composer Arvo Pärt’s album “Adam’s Lament” at the 56th Annual Grammy Awards in Los […]

Kalev H. Leetaru has been honored as one of Foreign Policy Magazine’s top 100 Global Thinkers of 2013, an enormously prestigious award which recognize “the world’s most exciting people… [who have] made a measurable difference […]

The widely-read “The Economist” Magazine has selected “Into Exile: A Life Story of War and Peace” by Elin Toona Gottschalk as one of the best books of 2013:  “The poignant autobiography of an Estonian schoolgirl whose […]

Olga Kistler-Ritso, who received the Estonian American National Council’s 2012 award for “Outstanding Achievement,” passed away on Nov. 18, 2013, in Redmond, Washington.  Dr. Kistler-Ritso established the Kistler-Ritso Foundation together with her husband, Walter P. […]

7 November (BNS), from Estonian Review, published by the Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs “Nicole Aunapu Mann, 35-year-old U.S. Marine Corps fighter pilot whose grandfather emigrated from Estonia before World War II, is one of […]

Until recently, letters were almost the only way to maintain contact with relatives and friends who either voluntarily or forcibly left their Estonian homeland. These letters are an important research resource because in addition to […]