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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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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.

Wherever You Go by Joan Leegant

Wherever You Go is Joan Leegant’s first full-length novel and follows her acclaimed short story collection One Hour in Paradise.

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Jacob's Cane - September 12

Scholar Elisa New discusses her new novel, Jacob's Cane, which traces the journeys of two family patriarchs from Eastern Europe.

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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.