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Esperanto – A Jewish Story

Does idealism need a language all its own? In a letter of 1905, Ludovik Lazarus Zamenhof wrote: "My Jewishness has been the main reason why, from earliest childhood, I have given my all for a single great idea, a single dream -- the dream of unity of humankind."

Astonishing News

Aaron Lansky

Jan 08, 2010

Book Center receives $3M bequest from the Estate of Mickey Ross.

The World in Yiddish: Secular Yiddish primers from our collection

Slideshow

Dec 11, 2009

Yiddish primers evoke strong memories from former students of the many Yiddish language schools around the world.

The Humbling by Philip Roth

Simon Axler, a sixty-five-year-old classical American stage actor, who throughout his career has demonstrated only extraordinary success at his craft, suddenly loses his magic.

Leyke's early life

Singer Leyke Carrey's journey from Zhitomir, Ukraine to the stage of Boston's Grand Opera.

In the Brechner Gallery

Journey to Jewish Cuba

Anthropologist Ruth Behar travels home to Cuba to explore the Jewish community there. Features stunning photos by Humberto Mayol.

Pakn Treger, Number 60

Dec 16, 2009

View selections from the Book Center's English-language magazine!