Support Our Current Projects

Your contribution will support our efforts to make virtually every Yiddish title in our collection and those of other libraries available to everyone, everywhere, free of charge, 24 hours a day.

Help us launch a new plan to aid Yiddish language teachers in improving their Yiddish and their skillset for teaching it.

Help us safeguard the Jewish heritage that flourished in Ukraine for a thousand years, and to do all we can to make sure it’s neither obliterated nor forgotten.

Help us build on lessons learned during the pandemic to expand virtual and hybrid programs, talks, and performances featuring some of the foremost scholars and artists of our generation.

With your support, we can process thousands of priceless Yiddish books that have arrived since the pandemic began and share them online with waiting readers everywhere.

Help us continue our crucial work in this dire time.

Help us repair and preserve our rare and damaged Yiddish books so their stories can be shared with generations to come.

Help us replace our roof so that we can protect all of the priceless Yiddish books, art, and recordings you've helped us save over the years.

Help us meet the challenge in support of our Great Jewish Books Program for high school students, and your gift will be matched, dollar-for-dollar.

With your support, we will create our own Yiddish Book Center publishing house dedicated specifically to Yiddish literature in translation.

With your support, we'll discover hidden gems in our collection and share these treasures with readers the world over.

A special sneak peek video of some of the rare Yiddish treasures we've received over the past year and the work that goes into processing them.

Help us complete our new Yiddish textbook with the creation of Hesofe: an Online Supplement that will make audio and video selections and interactive exercises an essential part of every lesson.

Help us match a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities that will open up our growing collection of oral history interviews and bring remarkable Jewish stories to homes and classrooms around the world.

Lectures, interviews, concerts, author talks, and conference proceedings spanning the Center’s entire 37-year history.

Donors who are helping bring Yiddish and modern Jewish literature to high school students across the continent

With your support, we’ll help teachers at schools around the world introduce Yiddish and modern Jewish literature into their curricula.

An all-out drive to capture oral history interviews from the last Yiddish-speaking Jews from Eastern Europe

We are guardians of one of the largest collections of Yiddish gems ever assembled. Help us bring them to new audiences.

Help us be ready to recover Yiddish books whenever and wherever they're in danger.

Thanks to the generosity of these donors, we are able to recover rare Yiddish volumes from around the world.

Your support of our Wexler Oral History Project helps us record stories about the legacy and changing nature of Yiddish language and culture.

By supporting our Translation Initiative, you’re helping us train a new generation of Yiddish-to-English translators and bring newly translated Yiddish works to more readers.