Explore our digital yiddish library of more than 11,000 titles, and our diverse collections, including contemporary oral histories, lectures, yiddish audiobooks, and more. Features books and gifts related to yiddish language and culture. A collection of audio books, recorded programs and multimedia resources from the yiddish book center. The shmooze the yiddish book center s podcasts include conversations with jewish culture makers, plus news and stories related to yiddish language, literature, and culture. As of september 2012, vaisman is both director of the yiddish language institute at the book center. The yiddish book centers podcast includes conversations with jewish culture makers, plus news and stories related to yiddish literature, language, and culture amherst, ma. Inside the very attractive building we saw a short film that tells the story of how one mans search for yiddish books to read lead to the creation of this huge book collection and.
Our students including teens and young adults share a passion for the. For a full schedule of yidstock events, including talks and workshops. This site is made possible with support from the jim joseph foundation, which is devoted to fostering compelling, effective jewish learning experiences for youth and young adults in the u. Read on for more information about the family who donated the volumes and the significance of this special addition to the yiddish book centers collection.
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The steven spielberg digital yiddish library includes more than 11,000 yiddish titles available to read online or download free of charge. The yiddish book center national yiddish book center, located on the campus of hampshire college in amherst, massachusetts, united states, is a cultural. Come to the yiddish book center and enter a lebedike velt, a lively world of yiddish culture. This page features brief clips from the centers extensive audio library. As the worlds only comprehensive supplier of yiddish books, the book center helped establish yiddish collections at more than 600 great libraries, including harvard, yale, library of congress, the british library, hebrew university in jerusalem, and national libraries in. The national yiddish book center artsboston calendar. Founded in 1980, the yiddish book center is a nonprofit organization working to tell the whole jewish story by rescuing, translating, and disseminating yiddish books and presenting innovative educational programs that broaden understanding of modern jewish identity. Home to a million yiddish books, permanent and visiting exhibits, galleries, an englishlanguage bookstore and two performance halls, the center hosts a yearround schedule of.
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Support the yiddish book center yiddish book center. Yiddish book center preserves and expands reach of more than. A life in fact and fiction is a lecture series by professor jeremy dauber, the atran professor of yiddish language, literature, and culture in the department of germanic languages at columbia university, specializing in yiddish and jewish literature, american jewish culture and american studies. Yiddish book center a lively world of yiddish culture meetingregister. The yiddish book center works to rescue yiddish and other modern jewish books and open up their content to the world. Additional funding for this site has been provided by the applebaum. About the yiddish book center yiddish book center store. As the worlds only comprehensive supplier of yiddish books, the book center helped establish yiddish collections at more than 600 great libraries, including harvard, yale, library of congress, the british library, hebrew university in continued. Prior to coming to the yiddish book center, paul was vice chancellor for administration and finance at the university of massachusetts amherst. A history from colonial times to today by pamela s.
The decade of discovery is a new initiative of the yiddish book center designed to foster a deeper understanding of yiddish and modern jewish culture. Thats why the college and the national yiddish book center partnered to create a yiddish language class, with a teacher shared by the two institutions. National yiddish book center is a libraries, historical societies and landmark preservation charity located in amherst, ma. Located in amherst, massachusetts, the center safeguards a.
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Signup for yiddish book center blitsbriv email news. More than 11,000 yiddish titles available to read online or download free of charge. First name last name email address zip code if applicable. This 30minute tour takes the visitor through the yiddish book centers museum exhibits and allows them. The workers circle is new yorks leading center for yiddish language instruction, and the largest provider of yiddish language classes in the u. Charity navigator rating for national yiddish book center. When he was a 23yearold graduate student, lansky stumbled upon an alarming fact. Beginning with the centers 40th anniversary in 2020, and continuing for each of the next ten years, the center will select an annual theme. The yiddish book center national yiddish book center, located on the campus of hampshire college in amherst, massachusetts, united states, is a cultural institution dedicated to the preservation of books in the yiddish language, as well as the culture and history those books represent. The yiddish book center is a nonprofit organization that works to tell the whole jewish story by rescuing, translating, and disseminating yiddish books and presenting innovative educational programs that broaden understanding of modern jewish identity. The yiddish book center is a vibrant, nonprofit organization working to rescue yiddish and other modern jewish books and celebrate the culture they contain.
Translations also appear in journals such as bridges, in geveb, pakn treger, and on the yiddish book centers website. Yiddish book center amherst 2020 all you need to know. Stream tracks and playlists from yiddish book center audio on your desktop or mobile device. Yiddish language the workers circle the workmens circle. The yiddish book center is a nonprofit organization that works to tell the whole jewish story by rescuing, translating, and disseminating yiddish books and p. The national yiddish book center was founded in 1980 by macarthur fellow aaron lansky, who continues to lead the organization as its president. In early february, the yiddish book center fellows traveled to new york city to pick up a donation of more than one thousand yiddish books from the personal library of yiddish author moyshe shtarkman. About the yiddish book center the yiddish book center is a nonprofit organization working to tell the whole jewish story by rescuing, translating, and disseminating yiddish books and presenting innovative educational programs that broaden understanding of modern jewish identity. National yiddish book center hosts a wide variet of events. Part of the yiddish book centers online lecture series sholem aleichem. National yiddish book center in amherst, ma librarything. Yiddish books by women in english translation poetry hayah rahel andres.
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