Discover Discover From the Vault Unexpected finds and treasures from the Yiddish Book Center and the stories behind the Center's collections Share this page: From Stage to Vault: Three Yiddish Libretti A new donation offers insight into how Yiddish speaker… Collecting Yiddish Zines A look at our newest acquisitions. Yiddish Periodicals across America A significant portion of Yiddish publishing was done periodical… Together in Mournful Protest The long lineage of Jewish funeral marches lives on in this piece of … The Machine That Goes Everywhere M. Ilin takes Yiddish youth on a journey into the future of trans… Yiddish for Esperantists How do you say sholem-aleykhem in Esperanto? A Gift for Jewish Children A story about a Yiddish storyteller and his lifelong struggle to publis… The Doodle Anti-Fascist Committee A close-up on some of our favorite doodles masterfully scribbled… Of Friends and Brothers-in-Law A Yiddish mystery concerning an ambiguous inscription from Argentin… Reading Practice From the Vault Looking for an accessible book to accompany your Yiddish learning … A Cat With a Yarmulke and Other Amulets From the Vault about a zamler's artwork. Black Magic on the Yiddish Stage A closer look at Dina Harris’ costume sketches for the Folksbiene… Subways, Skyscrapers, and Strikes: High-Schoolers Write about NYC What Nyu-york: zamlbukh reveals … Yiddish Card Catalogue from a Personal Library A piece about a handmade card catalog and the perso… Family Snapshots of Yiddish Cuba A From the Vault Piece about photographs of Yiddish Cuba Traces of Boiberik Artifacts and images from Camp Boiberik in the Center's collection show us how … A Milwaukee Yiddishist in Oxford An ephemera-filled scrapbook links students of Yiddish across the… Camp Boiberik’s Dove of Peace This embroidered dove recently resurfaced and will be featured in an… Just Wait Till I Grow Up! And Other Recent Donations Far from slowing donations of Yiddish books, … 1930s Yiddish Booklets about Women We see a lot of multi-part books at the Yiddish Book Center—bou… Yiddish, Sex, and the Post Office A manual on sexual health for Jewish immigrants in the early twe… The Bund on the Leningrad Trials A document from 1970 illustrates how the Bund struggled to positi… The Story of M. Pakntreger An Author by the Name of 'Book Peddler' A Very Special "Baby" (Typewriter) A look at Chava Rosenfarb's portable Hermes Baby type… Pogrom Literature and Collective Memory Memorializing communities lost to pogroms after the Russia… Reading the Readers Most of the books at the Center contain little pieces of evidence revealing wh… Whispers from Libraries What we can learn from stamps and card catalogs Tokyo Storm Warning A Look at the Not-So-Surprising Connection Between Yiddish and Japanese Litera… Togbukh fun a veverke (Diary of a Squirrel) A year in the life of a Yiddish-speaking squirrel from… Peace, Love, and Understanding: Exploring Yiddish Culture through Sheet Music An exploration of th… Adventures of a Bad Researcher: The Mystery of the Last Yiddish Linotype The Yiddish Linotype at t… Yiddish Dictionaries, Large and Small We have Yiddish dictionaries for every occasion Chicago Crime and a Strange Countess: King of Thrillers Translated into Yiddish The works of Edgar… Painted from Memory: Saul Raskin and the Question of Jewish Art A look at the work of multitalente… The Story Behind the Yiddish Book Center's Yiddish Typewriter Collection These machines have … From Cabbage to Galaxies: The Incredible Range of Kultur-Lige’s Publishing An examination Kultur-l… Who was Elkhonen Zeitlin? A chance discovery reveals a work of multiple literary layers. Man Out of Time: Allen Ginsberg in Montreal When the McGill Hillel hosted Allen Ginsberg for a two… Watching the (Yiddish) Detectives The complexities of meaning, identity, and language in Yiddish d… Converts, Bible Scholars, and Yiddishists There's a story behind every one of the Center's books—s… The Lives of Yiddish Readers We often discover surprises in the boxes of books we receive. These o… A Soviet Children's Poem about Cleanliness A few weeks ago, we found a small stack of colorfu… Gevalt in Our Stars A brief history of Yiddish astrologic practices Fonen in blut (Bloodied Flags) Jews were among the first to take up arms and fight against the fas… Love! Vengeance! Espionage! Shund Stories Escape a Fire "Dos yam-meydele" ("The Little Mermaid") Fairy tales and the Jewish imaginatio… Make America Your Country as Well as Your Home A 1920s booklet aimed to help Jewish immigrants to … Avoid Banal Jokes A guide to some of the more colorful guides in our collections Toysnd un eyne nakht (One Thousand and One Nights) A nineteenth-century edition of what would beco… Gezangen fun gerangl un oyfkum (Songs of Struggle and Resurgence) Coping with the horrors of the S… The Yiddish Photograph What is Jewish photography? What is Yiddish photography? Hear and Attend and Listen Yiddish translators took to Rudyard Kipling like a cobra to a feast of … Eating the Archives A brown paper bag on the outside. A world of culinary heritage within. Di Yerushe When Sarah Traister Moskovitz heard Aaron Lansky give a speech, it rekindled her passio… Before Spandex A rare Yiddish tailors’ manual—and the industrious department store owner behind it… The Hotel That Doesn't Exist The wandering of a book from Mexico tells a larger story of Jewi… Celia Dropkin’s Paintings In her final years, the poet replaced her pen with a paintbrush. Di ershte bagegenish Di ershte bagegenish (First Encounter) a bibliographic rarity The Bold, Intimate Writing of Blume Lempel Former Yiddish Book Center translation fellow Ellen Cas… Grace Paley Reads at the Yiddish Book Center In 2002, Grace Paley, the legendary writer of short f…
