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....

Last week, at the Association for Jewish Studies Conference in Boston, I attended a panel called “Reorganizing the American Jewish Community: What Can Changes in the Philanthropic/Nonprofit Sector Tell Us About Judaism and Jewish Life?” One panelist, J. Shawn Landres, shared statistics regarding Jewish nonprofit startups in the past ten years, which came out of....

Last week, the Book Center's fellows decided to go to New York for a bit of Yiddish culture (because eight hours a day of Yiddish cultural immersion simply isn't enough).  Fellow Anita Christensen writes about a recent trip to New York to see Di Folksbiene, the National Yiddish Theater.