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 ...
Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. This fall, the Yiddish Book Center presents a major new core exhibition that ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
'Borscht belt' intrigued photographer who will lecture at Yiddish Book Center on Sunday Art of Nathan Hilu, 89, seen through the lens of Torah, Jewish sensibility; on exhibit at Yiddish Book Center in ...
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 ...
(New York Jewish Week) — In a rickety warehouse in Long Island City, reached only by a footbridge that crosses underneath the Long Island Expressway, some 80,000 Yiddish books are stacked on shelves ...
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 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 ...
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