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....
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...
The Book Center is expanding our translation program, making it an even higher priority. Here’s the big question: what Yiddish titles and/or authors would you most like to see translated? Chaim Grade, Sholem Asch, Esther Kreitman… un azoy vayter.
Book Center fellow David Morrill Schlitt reflects on how this phrase ties together his own family history, the cultural encounters of the Jews of the shtetl, and the Book Center's role as a "bustling fairground of linguistic and cultural activity."
I arrived at the Book Center in September 2011 after graduating from Yale, where I studied modern Jewish history and Yiddish literature. My academic interests revolve around the political, cultural, and literary dimensions of the Yiddishist movement in the early 20th century. As a fellow, I'm overseeing the project to digitize the remainder of our collection, working on improving our current online catalog with better searchability and OCR, and TA-ing the January-term class offered by the Book Center to the five surrounding colleges.
Jul 06, 2011 
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