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Montreal Trip

Jordan Kutzik Jan 11, 2012

On Monday, December 12, I set off for Montreal with Christa Whitney, the director of the Wexler Oral History Project, and Sara Israel, one of my co-fellows, in order to pick up roughly 1,000 reel-to-reel tapes and 300 cassettes from the Jewish Public Library of Montreal so that they could be digitized as part of the Frances Brandt Online Yiddish Audio Library....

Kicking Off the New Year

Emma Morgenstern Jan 06, 2012

After the lull of late December (in the workplace, at least) twenty students are shaking things up once again at the Yiddish Book Center.

Kristallnacht: stories that remain

Alicia Brudney Jan 03, 2012

At the beginning of November I interviewed Arnold Friedman, Emeritus Professor of interior design at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Born in 1925 in Nuremberg, Germany, he grew up under the Nazi regime....

Members respond to "A shmek yidish"

Emma Morgenstern Dec 07, 2011

This week concluded our online Yiddish-learning video series, A shmek yidish—A Taste of Yiddish.  We were amazed by the videos’ popularity: within a couple weeks of launching, A shmek yidish had hundreds of...

Carp in the bathtub

Alicia Brudney Dec 05, 2011

Alicia Brudney interviewed Alice Ahart, who was visiting Amherst for her great-niece’s bat mitzvah.  In addition to describing her childhood in Ontario and her move to Detroit and then Tennessee, Alice told this humorous story about her mother's practice of keeping a live carp in the bathtub on Shabbes. 

Just about perfect - organizing a Translation conference

Sara Israel Dec 02, 2011

When I started work as a Book Center Fellow in September, I was assigned to help organize the logistics for our recent conference on translating Yiddish literature. When the other staff learned that I’d never done anything of the kind before, they told me....

Yiddish children's plays from Vilna

Jordan Kutzik Oct 26, 2011

Working as a fellow at the Yiddish Book Center it’s very easy to lose a minute or two from time to time amongst the wonders of the book collection just browsing through the titles . . .

Redndike bikher! Checking out Yiddish audio books at the Montreal Jewish Public Library

David Morrill Schlitt Jul 05, 2011

Last month, Anita Christensen and I piled into the Yiddish Book Center van, this time bound for the Great White North (granted, there are few places more pleasant and....

Have a Very Yiddish Summer!

Anita Christensen May 31, 2011

For those of you who want to put a little Yiddish into your summer, there are plenty of great opportunities this year...

Despite Weather, Summer Has Arrived

Anita Christensen May 23, 2011

Though the weather may suggest otherwise, summer has arrived at the Yiddish Book Center! This means that our calendar is filling up with interesting, inspiring, educational, and fun events...