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Yiddish Learning Learning Yiddish
John Marchese speaks with Yiddish Book Center alumni who are transforming the field of Yiddish studies as teachers, scholars, and cultural activists.

2020: The Year in Review
A look at the Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project's 2020 year

Help Us Salvage an Extraordinary Treasure Trove of Unique Sound Recordings and Make Them Accessible to All
Lectures, interviews, concerts, author talks, and conference proceedings spanning the Center’s entire 37-year history.

Musterverk fun der yidisher literatur (Masterworks of Yiddish Literature) Now Accessible
The 100-volume has been digitized and added to the Steven Spielberg Digital Yiddish Library

May 2022: Handpicked
Zachary Baker brings over four decades of experience as a Judaica librarian working closely with Yiddish materials. As the compiler of the indispensable resource “1000 Essential Yiddish Books,” we wonder what Baker has curated for us this month.

2021: The Year in Review
A look at the Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project's 2021 year.

"The Cleaver's Daughter"
A short story by famed, path-breaking Yiddish poet Avrom Sutzkever, published in 1975.

Rita Katz
2014-02-21

Ruth R. Wisse
2016-03-07

Moshe Shklar's Friendships With Famous Yiddish Writers

Samuel (Shmuel) Bak
2014-12-03

Liba Augenfeld
2012-07-10

Benjamin (Binyomen) Harshav
2013-03-18

Ken (Binyomen) Moss
2012-06-06

Alumni Recommendations
Reading and listening recommendations from Yiddish Book Center Fellows, past and present

1000 Essential Yiddish Books
A guide to the 1000 most essential Yiddish books in our collection

Alumni Interview: Debra Caplan
Yiddish Learning Learning Yiddish

The Paper Brigade and Other Forms of Resistance in the Vilna Ghetto
Jewish Intellectuals' Spiritual Resistance in the Vilna Ghetto

America and I
By Aaron Glanz-Leyeles, translated by Zackary Sholem Berger. The paean of a settled immigrant.

Alumni Current Projects—An Ever-Expanding Document
A page highlighting some of the projects alumni are working on