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Regenerating Jewish Culture
Celebrating forty years of book rescue, digitization, translation,
educational programs, oral histories, exhibitions
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Decade of Discovery Yiddish in America: Cultural Encounters
The Decade of Discovery is a new initiative of the Yiddish Book Center, launched in conjunction with our Fortieth Anniversary in 2020, designed to foster a deeper understanding of Yiddish and modern Jewish culture. This year's theme focuses on Jewish immigration and the ways in which the encounter with Yiddish culture has shaped Jewish life in America over the past 150 years. In celebration of this theme, we're spotlighting a collection of short interview excerpts from the Wexler Oral History Project about American Jewish farming communities in the US, a slideshow with iconic images from New York's Yiddish theater, and a "From the Vault" piece by Eitan Kensky about some of the more "colorful" guidebooks in our collection written for Jewish immigrants to the United States.
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Handpicked Sylvia Peterson
Choosing just a few items from our vast collections felt like "fishing in a wide ocean," Sylvia, an education program manager at the Yiddish Book Center, says. So she decided to theme her selections accordingly. Here are some of her fish-themed favorites.