Yiddish — the language and culture — is part of the modern Jewish story, says chief curator David Mazower. And without it, ‘you don’t have the full story.’ What do a leather medicine ball, a steamer ...
The Yiddish Book Center is something of a misnomer. The Amherst, Massachusetts, institution runs language classes, trains translators, produces podcasts, hosts the summer music festival Yidstock, and ...
Aaron Lansky, founder and president of the Yiddish Book Center, will retire next year and cede leadership to Susan Bronson, the center’s executive director. Aaron Lansky, seen here circa 1980, was ...
The Amherst institution’s ‘Yiddish: A Global Culture’ will tell stories of migration, personal transformation, creativity, and ethnic solidarity through 350 objects Is there such a thing as modern ...
The Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts, recently got a total makeover. The center, one of the preeminent Yiddish institutions in the world, offers a wide variety of indispensable resources ...
AMHERST — It was never in David Mazower’s life plan to move to America for a job at the Yiddish Book Center. It was also never in his plan to spearhead what just might be the first permanent ...
AMHERST, Massachusetts (JTA) — Since its opening in 1997, the Yiddish Book Center has wowed visitors with its architecture. A Jewish village resurrected on a college campus in sylvan Amherst, ...
The Yiddish Book Center’s permanent exhibition offers much to kvell about, including a wide-ranging collection of volumes and tributes to Yiddish theater, music and history. Edward Rothstein ...
EXCLUSIVE: Jewish streamer ChaiFlicks has struck its first deal for Yiddish programming including an oral history project with Leonard Nimoy. The streamer will make documentary features and short ...
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Aaron Lansky built a home for 1.5 million Yiddish books. Now he’s handing over the keys.
(JTA) — Steven Spielberg had already donated money to the Yiddish Book Center when he asked if the center’s founder, Aaron Lansky, might fly out to Los Angeles and drop by his office. The filmmaker ...
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 ...
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Was the ‘Yiddish Sherlock Holmes’ the first Jewish superhero?
Mikhl Yashinsky's translation of the Max Spitzkopf stories offers a glimpse at the popular reading of Jews in the early 20th ...
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