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Book Rescue

Pakn Treger, Number 63

Randi Silnutzer June 21, 2011

A Fellow describes how she and her colleagues save a writer's library; David Mazower explores Yiddish micrography; and Aaron Lansky makes the case for restoring the other half of Jewish identity.

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<i>Redndike bikher</i> -- Talking Books project

May 26, 2011

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...

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Coda to Yiddish Book Rescue in Manhattan

David Morrill Schlitt April 08, 2011

Three weeks ago, while our wonderful volunteers sorted through books and journals, I took off on a last minute trip to New York City. When I returned the following day, I had brought back three more boxes to add to their "to-do" list...
 
 

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Yiddish Book Rescue in Manhattan

Emma Morgenstern March 01, 2011

On February 11, I went to Manhattan with Fellows David Schlitt and Anita Christensen to collect the Yiddish library of the late writer Moyshe Shtarkman. Shtarkman’s wife, Rachel, recently passed away; their daughters, Reeva and Monica, felt that the Yiddish Book Center would be the best new home for the....

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A velt mit veltelekh: The Worlds of Yiddish Culture

Randi Silnutzer February 03, 2011

A velt mit veltelekh: The Worlds of Yiddish Culture explores the many facets of modern Yiddish language, literature, and culture.

Drawing on the Center’s own collection of one million Yiddish books, the main display, Unquiet Pages, examines the fascinating contents of Yiddish novels, plays, poetry, memoirs, and reportage.  In another gallery, “Sholem-bayes: The American Jewish Home” takes a lively look at how the Jewish home has been depicted in literature and related mediums. The Kinder-vinkl introduces visitors to the origins, sounds, appearance and uses of the Yiddish language. A Yiddish print shop presents traditional printing equipment on which Yiddish newspapers and other common materials were produced.

Unquiet Pages was made possible through a generous grant by the David Berg Foundation.

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Thank you from Hania

Adrienne Figus April 14, 2010

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.
 

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Urgent -- Jewish books needed after arson in Crete

Aaron Lansky February 08, 2010

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.

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