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Scanned this week: Frantseyzishe poezye

Joshua Price Apr 13, 2012

Frantseyzishe poezye, 1968. M. Litvine's extensive and rigorous anthology of French poetry....

Scanned this week: Ecce Homo: vi m'vert, vos men iz

Joshua Price Mar 16, 2012

Ecce Homo: vi m'vert, vos men iz ("Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is"), Warsaw, 1929. Nietzsche's classic philosophical autobiography, first published posthumously in 1908 and translated into Yiddish twenty years later by N. Aybeshits.

Scanned this week: Di broyne bestye ("The Brown Beast")

Joshua Price Mar 09, 2012

Scanned this week: Di broyne bestye ("The Brown Beast"), Leyzer Volf, 1943. A posthumous collection of antifascist poems by one of the founders of the literary group Yung Vilne.

Scanned this week: Mides ha-din ("A Stern Judgment")

Joshua Price Mar 05, 2012

Scanned this week: Mides ha-din ("A Stern Judgment"), Dovid Bergelson, 1929. One of the classic works of the premier Soviet Yiddish novelist, written somewhere on the cusp of modernism and socialist realism....

Why Chaim Grade?

Emma Morgenstern Feb 27, 2012

I first heard of the Yiddish writer Chaim Grade when I was at the Yiddish Book Center in 2010. There had recently been controversy over his estate, which led to a New York Times story on the subject by Joseph Berger....

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....

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....

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

David Morrill Schlitt Jul 06, 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....