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Highlights: recently scanned books

Mitt Raj May 30, 2013

Among the highlights recently scanned for the Digital Yiddish Library are a 1920s pamphlet, translated from the French, on some generally hushed-up human sexual behaviors; a yearbook of the Colegio Israelita de México; and a memorial volume for artists murdered in the Holocaust.

News from the scanning project

Mitt Raj May 02, 2013

An eclectic mix of titles were recently scanned for inclusion in the Steven Spielberg Digital Yiddish Library -- from children's verse, to the science of birds' nests, to short stories that touch upon labor, psychoanalysis and Greenwich Village bohemians.

News from the scanning room

Mitt Raj Mar 29, 2013

Among the highlights recently scanned for the Digital Yiddish Library are a children's primer, a 1949 atlas complete with foldouts and illustrations, and a biography of Lenin.

Recently scanned: Jews in Brazil, children's verse, and a photo-essay from pre-war Vilna

Mitt Raj Feb 27, 2013

We are still scanning books each week for our Digital Yiddish Library. This week's highlights include a book on the history of Jews in Brazil, a collection of children's verse by feminist writer Eda Glasser, and an ethnographic photo-essay on Jewish life in pre-war Vilna.

Treasures from the Frances Brandt Online Yiddish Audio Library

Jordan Kutzik Feb 26, 2013

Overseeing the digitization and distribution of a collection of thousands of hours of audio materials is incredibly fascinating and rewarding work.  It also takes a lot of time.......These are but a few of the treasures to be found within the Frances Brandt Online Yiddish Audio Library.....

Scanned this week: February 5, 2013

Mitt Raj Feb 05, 2013

Three books recently scanned for the Digital Yiddish Library include a comprehensive Hebrew-Yiddish dictionary; a bilingual profile of prominant Jewish artists published in 1947; and a Purim shpiel with text by Warsaw humorist and entertainer "Chagay" Hayyim Goldberg.

Recently scanned: Lomir ale Zingen and more

Mitt Raj Jan 11, 2013

Lomir ale Zingen (Let’s All Sing) is among the gems scanned this week for our Steven Spielberg Digital Yiddish Library.

Scanned this week: from Jewish humor to natural selection

Mitt Raj Jan 02, 2013

Among the gems scanned this week are a compendium of Jewish humor, a 1901 pamphlet outlining the theory of natural selection, and a book of historical essays.

Yiddish in Paris: Two Days at the UNESCO Yiddish Conference

Jordan Kutzik Dec 28, 2012

On November 12th and 13th a unique and historical gathering of Yiddish scholars and communal activists took place at UNESCO in Paris....

Scanned this week: messianic pretenders and a Soviet yor-bukh

Mitt Raj Dec 26, 2012

Among the items scanned in the past few weeks are two gems from the 1930s: Joseph Shapiro's compendium of biographies of Jewish messianic pretenders, published in Cleveland; and a Soviet almanac rich with charts and statistics on the changing nature of Jewish life in the USSR.