National yiddish book center is a libraries, historical societies and landmark preservation charity located in amherst, ma. The frances brandt online yiddish audio library contains lectures by and interviews with yiddish writers, recorded at the jewish public library of montreal between 1953 and 2005. With its lively circus and vaudeville music and set pieces, the jester provides a glimpse of 1937 warsaws thriving yiddish revues and cabarets, which were destroyed soon after. The yiddish book center has received the 2020 london book fairs international excellence award for literary translation initiative. 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. Support the yiddish book center yiddish book center. It is one of ten western massachusetts museums constituting the museums10 consortium.
In november 2002 grace paley attended the yiddish book center s great jewish books conference as a writerinresidence. Facebook twitter youtube instagram sign up to receive our free enewsletter. Inspired by the memoirs of marc chagall and his contemporaries, this film by alexander mitta blends fact and folklore to evoke the return in 1917 of the iconic jewish artist to his childhood home of vitebsk, where he falls in love with bella rosenfeld. Aaron lansky born june 17, 1955 in new bedford, massachusetts is the founder of the yiddish book center, an organization he created to help salvage yiddish language publications. 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.
The steven spielberg digital yiddish library includes more than 11,000 yiddish titles available to read online or download free of charge. The great jewish books programs draw on the million yiddish books recovered by the center, as well as on jewish books written in other languages. 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. Its books, its library, its programs invite you to experience a world that has almost disappeared,the world of yiddish culture. The frances brandt online yiddish audio library can be subscribed to. Stream tracks and playlists from yiddishbookcenter on your desktop or mobile device. A nonprofit organization working to recover, celebrate, and regenerate yiddish and modern. Youll find a million yiddish books, permanent and visiting exhibits, an englishlanguage bookstore, and a yearround schedule of educational programs, concerts, lectures, films, and special events, including yidstock. The yiddish book center s podcast includes conversations with jewish culture makers, plus news and stories related to yiddish literature, language, and culture amherst, ma. A history from colonial times to today by pamela s. A collection of audio books, recorded programs and multimedia resources from the yiddish book center. How amazing it is to hear grace read her work in this archival recordingher literary voice i know but to hear her own voice is truly something quite special. He received a macarthur fellowship in 1989 for his work lansky is the author of outwitting history 2004, an autobiographical account of how he saved the yiddish books of the world, from the 1970s to the.
Saving a million yiddish books was just the beginning. Yiddish book center award from london book fair jewish. The center s work is intellectually and emtionally inspiring. Yiddish book center, 1021 west st, amherst, ma 2020. Yiddish book center museum day smithsonian magazine. In 2014, the yiddish book center was awarded a national medal for museums and libraries, according to the release, the nations highest medal conferred on a museum or library, at a white house. 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 working to recover, celebrate, and regenerate yiddish. Pakn treger our englishlanguage magazine carries on the tradition of the original pakn tregers, who traveled from shtetl to shtetl in eastern europe bringing books. The yiddish book center, a cultural and educational center, library, and museum that aims to broaden awareness of and accessibility to yiddish and modern jewish.
Jewish presence in eastern europe, 20042012 will be in the yiddish book center s brechner gallery through october 15, 2017. How a mensch from massachusetts saved yiddish literature for generations to come by sue macy. The yiddish book center is a beautiful place architectuarlly and spiritually. Charity navigator rating for national yiddish book center. The yiddish book center works to rescue yiddish and other modern jewish books and open up their content to the world. National yiddish book center is rated 3 out of 4 stars by charity navigator. The yiddish book center works to rescue yiddish and other modern jewish books and open up their content to the world, and has over 11,000 ebooks available for free download and online reading, and appears to be a tremendous resource. Yiddish book center amherst 2020 all you need to know. Contact the yiddish book center for information about reprint copies of these books. Many of the films polish jewish crew and actors were killed in the holocaust, making the films touches. A new initiative of the yiddish book center s designed to foster a deeper understanding of yiddish and modern jewish culture. Yiddishbookcenter yiddish book center free listening. Yiddish fight club on exhibit at the yiddish book center.
Part of the yiddish book center s online lecture series sholem aleichem. A history challenges the commonly held view that yiddish was suppressed or even banned by israeli authorities for ideological reasons, offering instead a radical new interpretation of the interaction between yiddish and israeli hebrew cultures. National yiddish book center jewish virtual library. Yiddish book center charlene scott of member station wfcr in amherst reports on the opening of the national yiddish book center. Youll find permanent and visiting exhibits, an englishlanguage bookstore, and two performance halls where you can enjoy a yearround schedule of educational programs, concerts, films, and events. Now featuring selections from the frances brandt online yiddish audio library and the sami rohr library of recorded yiddish books, produced by the yiddish book center in cooperation with the jewish public library of montreal. Author rachel rojanski tells the compelling and yet unknown story of how yiddish, the most widely used jewish language in the pre. How amazing it is to hear grace read her work in this archival recordingher literary voice i know but.
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 yizkor book collection is a joint project by the yiddish book center and new york public library. This 45minute tour takes the visitor through the yiddish book center. Features books and gifts related to yiddish language and culture.
Yiddish book center picks shaker heights library for. Visit the yiddish book center and enter a lebedike velt, a lively world of jewish culture. These books are scanned from the new york public librarys yizkor book collection. We offer fellowships and courses for high school students, college students. Come to the yiddish book center and enter a lebedike velt a lively world of jewish culture. Located in amherst, massachusetts, the center safeguards a collection of 1. Yiddish book center launches decade of discovery to mark. Yiddish book center gifts yiddish book center store. Yiddish book center store 1021 west street amherst, ma 01002 42564900 ext. Portnoy will speak about yiddish fight club at a free gallery talk at the yiddish book center, 1021 west st. Give the gift of yiddish book center membership to your friends and family. A nonprofit organization working to recover, celebrate, and regenerate yiddish and modern jewish literature and culture.
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