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Friendly Fire: A Duet by A.B. Yehoshua, translated by Stuart Schoffman

Mr. Yehoshua is Israel’s most distinguished living novelist. But he is one who joins love for the unique qualities of his people with despair over their failure to make room politically and economically — but above all imaginatively — for the Arabs among them.

Family, Fiction, Israel, Novel

Stella Rudolph: The Other Pianist

An virtually anonymous member of the KlezKanada Yiddish festival turns out to be a descendant of the Szpilman dynasty of klezmorim, and the living legacy of the Barsh family band.

Do you know Stella Rudolph? Do you have a similar story to tell? Post a comment and join the conversation!

Discovery Project, Klezanda, klezmorim, Music

Tell your story!

The Wexler Oral History Project at the Yiddish Book Center wants to hear your stories! Learn more about how you can get involved -- and view video highlights from recent interviews.

Esn! Jews and Food in America

The exhibition explores the American Jewish experience through food-related artifacts – signs, menus, ads, and packaging – and reflects the Jewish American search for a balance between acculturation and identity. Items are from the collection of Rabbi Michael Strassfeld, and the Garden Cafeteria sign is on loan from the Museum at Eldridge Street.

Esn! Jews and Food in America is on exhibit at the Yiddish Book Center May 16 - October 3, 2010

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Music of David Botwinik

On August 8, Tenor Richard Lenatsky performs the music of Vilna-born composer David Botwinik and songs by Mordechai Gebirtig, accompanied by Alexander Botwinik and the klezmer band "Hu Tsa Tsa."

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of the largest and fastest-growing Jewish cultural organization in America.

They Called Me Mayer July

Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett

A remarkable record of Jewish life in a Polish town before World War II as seen through the eyes of Mayer Kirshenblatt, who was born in 1916, left Poland for Canada in 1934, and began painting at age 73.

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What Every Girl Should Know

Margaret Sanger

Yiddish-speaking immigrants to America were intensely involved in every new sociopolitical development, so it’s no wonder (though it is a surprise!) that Margaret Sanger’s What Every Girl Should Know appeared in Yiddish in 1916, the same year it was published in English.