Handpicked

December 2020: Handpicked

Rokhl Kafrissen is a NYC-based playwright and journalist. After delving into her selections, scroll down to read a short interview with Rokhl about her choices.

November 2020: Handpicked

Sylvia is an education program manager at the Yiddish Book Center. After delving into her selections, scroll down to read a short interview with Sylvia about her choices.

October 2020: Handpicked

Faune is the Yiddish Book Center's communications content editor. After delving into her selections, scroll down to read a short interview with Faune about her choices.

September 2020: Handpicked

David is the Yiddish Book Center's bibliographer and editorial director. After delving into his selections, scroll down to read a short interview with David about his choices.

August 2020: Handpicked

Sophia Shoulson is an alumna of several Yiddish Book Center programs and was the Center's 2019–2020 Richard S. Herman Fellow. After delving into her selections, scroll down to read a short interview with Sophia about her choices.

July 2020: Handpicked

Faith Jones is a library director and alumna of the Yiddish Book Center Translation Fellowship. After delving into her selections, scroll down to read a short interview with Faith about her choices.

June 2020: Handpicked

Susan Bronson is the Yiddish Book Center's executive director. After delving into her selections, scroll down to read a short interview with Susan about her choices.

May 2020: Handpicked

Josh Lambert is the Yiddish Book Center academic director. After delving into his selections, scroll down to read a short interview with Josh about his choices.

April 2020: Handpicked

Abigail is a 2019–2020 Yiddish Book Center Fellow. After delving into her selections, scroll down to read a short interview with Abigail about her choices.

March 2020: Handpicked

Lesley is an education manager at the Yiddish Book Center. After delving into her selections, scroll down to read a short interview with Lesley about her choices.

February 2020: Handpicked

Lisa is the director of communications at the Yiddish Book Center, co-editor of Pakn Treger, and host of The Shmooze. After delving into her selections, scroll down to read a short interview with Lisa about her choices.

January 2020: Handpicked

Jessica is a Yiddish professor and translator. After delving into her selections, scroll down to read a short interview with Jessica about her choices.

December 2019: Handpicked

Zeke is a Yiddish Book Center Translation Fellow and musicology doctoral student. After delving into his selections, scroll down to read a short interview with Zeke about his choices.

November 2019: Handpicked

Sophia is the Richard S. Herman Fellow at the Yiddish Book Center. After delving into her selections, scroll down to read a short interview with Sophia about her choices.

October 2019: Handpicked

Madeleine (Mindl) is the director of translation and collections initiatives at the Yiddish Book Center. After delving into her selections, scroll down to read a short interview with Mindl about her choices.

October 2018: Handpicked

Madeleine (Mindl) is the director of translation and collections initiatives at the Yiddish Book Center. After delving into her selections, scroll down to read a short interview with Mindl about her choices.

June 2018: Handpicked

A frequent collaborator with the Yiddish Book Center, we were delighted when Ilan agreed to share some of his highlights from our collections.

May 2018: Handpicked

There are few people more uniquely qualified to delve into the Center's collections as Eitan Kensky. He's been instrumental in discovering and curating a range of materials—not just books, but also recordings, translations, and digital collections.

April 2018: Handpicked

Michael Yashinsky is a consummate Yiddishist—in addition to his work at the Center teaching Yiddish and creating educational resource kits and materials for the Center’s forthcoming Yiddish textbook, he is also a stage director, playwright, and actor.

February 2018: Handpicked

The Yiddish Book Center's Academic Director, Josh Lambert is a scholar of American Jewish Literature. After delving into his selections, scroll down to read a short interview with Josh about his choices.

January 2018: Handpicked

Eddy Portnoy is one of the leading scholars of Yiddish popular culture. He loves—and knows—it all: cartoons, humor magazines, puppet shows, the underbelly of the Yiddish Press, and so much more, Here's what he found in our collections.

December 2017: Handpicked

As the Yiddish Book Center’s Bibliographer and Editorial Director, David is constantly making new discoveries, and he’s surfaced some fascinating items from our collections.

November 2017: Handpicked

Christa Whitney discovered Yiddish while studying comparative literature as an undergraduate. In her current position as director of the Center's Wexler Oral History Project she's is constantly exploring the various media collected by the Center.

September 2017: Handpicked

Yiddish scholar Eitan Kensky, the Yiddish Book Center's director of collections initiatives, selected several types of media from our collections—Yiddish books, podcasts, translations, and recordings of cultural programs.

August 2017: Handpicked

Elissa Sperling is a Yiddish Book Center 2016/17 Fellow. She's used that background, plus a degree in library science, to help with cataloging the Yiddish Book Center's collections during her fellowship and is constantly sharing her interesting finds.

June 2017: Handpicked

Lisa Newman is the director of communications - she's constantly scouring our website for English-language recordings, articles, and oral histories that provide background for her work on Pakn Treger and The Shmooze.

April 2017: Handpicked

Sebastian Schulman just can't stay away from the Yiddish Book Center—a Center summer intern in 2004, he later served as director of its translation program before leaving to work on his dissertation. Here, Seb shares some of his favorite finds.

February 2017: Handpicked

Faith Jones knows our collections as well as anyone. Here are a few of her favorite finds.

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