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On Exhibit: Through the Yiddish Looking Glass: The Art of Yiddish Children's Literature

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Who was Elkhonen Zeitlin?

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The Language of Story and Song

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Yiddish Illustrations: "From Chagall to Diego Rivera" A Personal Top Ten by David Mazower

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Yidstock 2018 (July 12-15): Featuring - David Krakauer, Anthony Russell, Socalled, Sarah Aroeste, and more...

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2018 Pakn Treger Translation Issue

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A Focus On American Jewish Heritage

We're featuring a range of media related to American Jewish heritage, culled from the Yiddish Book Center's collections—oral histories, articles from Pakn Treger, podcast interviews from The Shmooze, archival recordings, and finds from our vault. Watch, listen, read, and look for more posts throughout the month. 

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Everything Old Is New Again

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Remnants: Photographs of the Lower East Side

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American Jewish Farming Communities

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Handpicked Ilan Stavans

In addition to being the Lewis-Sebring Professor of Humanities, Latin American, and Latino Culture at Amherst College, Ilan Stavans is an award-winning author, lexicographer, cultural commentator, and translator. He is the publisher of Restless Books, and host of the NPR podcast "In Contrast."

Di geshikhte fun mayn toybnshlak un andere dertseylungen (The Story of my Dovecot, and Other Stories)

Along with Franz Kafka and Bruno Schultz, Isaac Babel is the best and most influential Jewish writer of the first-half of the twentieth century. Yiddish only produced one rendition of Babel’s “Story of My Dovecot” and other stories—it's by Gitl Meisl, and it's inspiring.

Gezamelte shriften (Collected Works)

I'm a long-time admirer of Shloyme Zanvil Rappoport, aka Ansky. I often delve into his multivolume The Destruction of Galicia, an ethnographic survey of Podolia and Volhynia between 1911 and 1914. Inspired by it, I have recently traveled throughout Jewish Latin America to survey the landscape, writing a travelogue with my impressions.

The Religious Dimension of Judaism

This audio recording of a lecture delivered by multilingual scholar of Jewish mysticism Gershom Scholem is a jewel. Listen to him juxtapose autobiography with research and present complex thoughts in his fifth language, English (after German, Hebrew, French, and Latin).

My Grandfather’s Best Joke

In about three minutes, actor Fyvush Finkel (1922–2016) explains how a single joke about an improvised minyan on Wednesday serves as the glue that links two generations of Yiddish speakers. Finkel’s facial gestures are enough to make one laugh.