Until recently, it seemed you could find Yiddish books only in obscure libraries or the attic of someone’s grandparents. But this week, Yiddish became one of the most accessible literatures on earth.
Bina Weiss and her eight children have borrowed hundreds of books and videos from the Jewish Community Library, a little-known gem housed in the Wilshire Boulevard headquarters of the Jewish ...
What does it take to launch a massive project to translate Yiddish masterpieces into English and publish them? A fairy godmother, according to David Roskies, the newly appointed editor in chief of the ...
The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, the world’s preeminent center for the study of the Yiddish language, culture and history, has laid off all of its librarians. Four people were let go in the ...
Join Great Neck author Linda F. Burghardt, PhD, when she tells the story of Yiddish from its roots in the Middle Ages to its steep decline after the Holocaust and its surprising resurgence in modern ...
Aaron Lansky, president and founder of the Amherst-based Yiddish Book Center, is making an appeal to help export a "significant Yiddish Library" from Caracas, Venezuela. Aaron Lansky, president and ...
SHAKER HEIGHTS, Ohio -- Digging great Yiddish literature: The Shaker Heights Library is participating in the Yiddish Book Center’s “Coming to America” Reading Groups for Public Libraries. The reading ...
Tucked away among the sacred texts and Torah scrolls at my synagogue is something unusual: a Holocaust library. That synagogue is Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun (KJ), a large Modern Orthodox shul on ...
SPOKANE, Wash. — The Spokane Public Library has been selected as one of 40 libraries in the nation to participate in the Yiddish Book Center's public library program on the theme, "Between Two Worlds: ...
On Wednesday, May 15 at 7 p.m., the Westfield Memorial Library will present a program called “In Words and Music: The Story of the Yiddish Theatre.” The library is located at 550 East Broad St. The ...
The Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City, photographed on Oct. 17, 1934, is superimposed with an image of a page from a manuscript of a Tiberias rabbi who traveled to Europe on a fundraising ...
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