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The achievements of the yiddish book center have been recognized both with a macarthur genius grant for our president and founder, aaron lansky, and by the receipt of the national medal for museum and library service in 2014. I look forward to an updated version to learning more about the national yiddish book center in amherst massachusetts. Kadimah jewish cultural centre and national library. Keeping the yiddish book alive and healthy the new. 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. I worked at national yiddish book center fulltime pros better compensation than many jobs available in the area talented, whipsmart, overqualified support staff beautiful physical location meaningful mission some departments fair much better than others a decent place to learn the ropes ample room for entrylevel staff. The national yiddish book center is a nonprofit organization working to rescue yiddish books and share their content with the world. Books can be browsed by subjectkeyword or searched for words in the title, year, author or publisher. See all formats and editions hide other formats and editions. Collecting and distributing yiddish books is the start of our work, lansky said. National yiddish book centernational yiddish book center, cultural institution dedicated to collecting and distributing endangered yiddish books and, through programs and education, opening up their contents to new readers. The yiddish book center is a nonprofit organization working to recover, celebrate, and regenerate yiddish.
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. The national yiddish book center offers online access to the full texts of nearly 11,000 outofprint yiddish titles. All content is posted anonymously by employees working at. More than 10,000 of our titles are now available freeofcharge through the open content alliance. The national yiddish book center was founded in 1980 by macarthur fellow aaron lansky, who continues to lead the organization as its president. In addition, we can provide you with used copies and reprints of most yiddish titles at nominal cost. Browse, read, download or print any or all of these books, free of charge. Center enters digital era in quest to save yiddish works j. Mamele, new digital restoration from the national center. The kadimah is a jewish, secular, cultural organisation and library and an important yiddish oriented, jewish organisation in. Since the search box on that page yields results from all collections in the internet archive it is advisable to perform a search via the project page on the website of the national yiddish book center itself.
Alexis aaeng is a graduate of the university of colorado boulder, where she received a dual degree in history and jewish studies and wrote her undergraduate thesis about yiddish radio. The judges called the yiddish book center a unique organization that involves the public, publishers, libraries, and upcoming generations of translators in a broad and imaginative program to. Yiddish literature has been savedthese books were literally in dumpsters and rotting ion basements. To celebrate the fifth anniversary of the national yiddish book center, staff members planned a party and hoped for a crowd of 1,000. Email april update from the national yiddish book center. Yiddish book center, national yiddish book center, wexler oral history project. In 2017, paula vogels play indecent about a controversial yiddish play won the tony awards for best direction of. The yiddish book center national yiddish book center, located on the campus of hampshire. Price new from used from print, 1 year please retry. Because of the physical deterioration of many volumes, the center created the steven spielberg digital yiddish library in 1998, making reprints of every title. It is one of ten western massachusetts museums constituting the museums10 consortium. Yiddish book center award from london book fair jewish.
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Explore our digital yiddish library of more than 11,000 titles, and our diverse collections, including contemporary oral histories, lectures, yiddish audiobooks, and more. Kadimah jewish cultural centre and national library home. Digitization of this collection was undertaken in partnership with the national yiddish book center. Gateway to over 53 million as of september 2016 artworks, artifacts, books, videos and sounds from across europe.
As of the end of 2014, the titles in the steven spielberg digital yiddish library have been downloaded 1. National yiddish book center open the steven spielberg digital yiddish library. National yiddish book center, cultural institution dedicated to collecting and distributing endangered yiddish books and, through programs and education, opening up their contents to new readers. Yiddish book centers spielberg digital yiddish library hank bromley the national yiddish book center is a nonprofit organization working to rescue yiddish books and share their content with the world. Yiddish jewish digital collections and jewish study guides. Learn more and find out about remote access for library services. For general inquiries, call us at 42564900 or email us at email protected or by using the form below. Type of resource text identifiers universal unique identifier uuid. National yiddish book center how is national yiddish. It will be used to digitize the centers books some of them a century.
Pakn treger yiddish for book peddler, the magazine of the yiddish book center, is an englishlanguage magazine that covers subjects related to yiddish culture and literature as well as news from the center. Christian dawid 23august2011 yiddish book center by yiddish book center allie usage attributionnoncommercialno derivative works 3. The comprehensive collection includes works of fiction, memoirs, poetry, plays, short stories, science manuals, cookbooks, primers, and more, by the most renowned yiddish authors and lesserknown writers alike. Archival recordings 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. Directions and hours can be found in our visit section. Forum for yiddish literature and yiddish language michael davidson early hebrew printing homepage the museum of family history, the yiddish world museum of the history of polish jews, warsaw, poland national yiddish book center, spielberg digital yiddish library new york public librarydorot jewish division, new york. Yiddish book center amherst 2020 all you need to know. When you enter the building, you walk onto the graycarpeted mezzanine and can look over the collection. The yiddish book center is located at 1021 west st. The national yiddish book center harry and jeanette weinberg building 1021 west street amherst, ma 01002 phone. More than 11,000 yiddish titles have been digitized and made available for free online by the national yiddish book centers steven spielberg digital yiddish library.
Phoenix wyatt steiner summer yiddish program coordinator. Beginning with the center s 40th anniversary in 2020, and continuing for each of the next ten years, the center will select an annual theme. National yiddish book center is rated 3 out of 4 stars by charity navigator. She is also a twotime alumna of the yiddish book centers steiner summer yiddish program, and a. Mamele, joseph greens marvelous comic melodrama finds the vastly talented actress taking care of her underemployed, unappre. In 1998, the centers steven spielberg digital yiddish library made highquality reprints available on demand. To reduce the spread of coronavirus covid19 in new york city, all nypl locations are temporarily closed until further notice. Yiddish tomes go digital with diy scanner the forward. Yiddish book centers spielberg digital yiddish library. A guide to the most essential yiddish books in our collection. How a mensch from massachusetts saved yiddish literature for generations to come by sue macy.
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