As we gear up for the 2012 Steiner Summer Program at the Yiddish Book Center—the first major program at the Center for which I’ll be serving as Academic Director—I can’t help but think back to my own introduction to Yiddish, in another summer program, back in 2005....
Thanks to a generous gift from Frances and Hubert Brandt of Lido Beach, NY, we are now working with the Jewish Public Library of Montreal to safeguard 1,500 reel-to-reel recordings featuring interviews with Yiddish writers such as Chaim Grade, Itzik Manger, Rokhl Korn, Sholem Asch and others.
The Translation Grant Program, a new initiative to encourage and support Yiddish translation, was launched in March 2011. Applicants submitted proposals for previously untranslated works in a range of genres including short stories, novels, poetry, memoir, and literary criticism. The recipients of this year’s grants are Shulamis Lynn Dion and Ben Sadock.
The tapes are on the move! On May 23, two of our Fellows left Amherst for Montreal on a mission to pick up over 200 Yiddish audio books from the Jewish Public Library. Once the tapes are brought back to Massachusetts, they will be digitized and then posted online on the Internet Archive, alongside the written versions of the same titles. Like the books in the Spielberg Digital Yiddish Library, these audio books will be available free of charge. Read on to find out more...
In this video, meet Steiner Summer Program students as they describe their favorite Yiddish words. All material comes from interviews students conducted in their oral history practicum! Find out how to apply for this year's Steiner Summer Program.
After an arson attack devastated the library of a 600-year-old synagogue in Crete, Book Center members from around the world sent books to replenish the collection. Read the synagogue’s heartfelt thank-you, and view an interactive map showing the origins of the donated volumes.
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times and NPR's Morning Edition film critic and host of our spring film weekend, "Letting Jews Be Jews,"announces his 10 favorite Jewish films.
Two separate arson attacks in January have devastated the 600-year-old synagogue on Crete, and the Yiddish Book Center has offered to help replace some of the books that were destroyed.
Feb 13, 2012 
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