Number 50
Spring 2006 / 5766

Pakn Treger: The Magazine Of The Yiddish Book Center

Features

Keeping Current in Amsterdam
Hilde Pach
No money, few readers: in 17th-century Amsterdam, publishing a Yiddish newspaper was a risky business.
An Embarrassment of Riches
Zachary M. Baker
A distinguished bibliographer chooses 1,000 definitive Yiddish titles.

Translation

Everyday Jews
Yehoshue Perle, translated by Maier Deshell and Margaret Birstein.
Introduction by David G. Roskies. The New Yiddish Library offers a coming-of-age novel from pre-war Poland.

Our English-language magazine carries on the tradition of the original pakn tregers, who traveled from shtetl to shtetl in Eastern Europe bringing books and news of the outside world.

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