Search
Want a deeper search?
Search the full text of our books in Yiddish at our Full-Text Book Search Site.
ocr.yiddishbookcenter.org
Teach Great Jewish Books Honor Roll
Donors who are helping bring Yiddish and modern Jewish literature to high school students across the continent

Donor Acknowledgements
Mit a hartsikn dank—our heartfelt thanks to our donors

Emergency Book Rescue Honor Roll
Thanks to the generosity of these donors, we are able to recover rare Yiddish volumes from around the world.

"Stories of Exile" Reading Groups for Public Libraries 2023
A reading and discussion program to engage teens and adults in thinking about experiences of displacement, migration, and diaspora.

"Martsepanes"
A short poem by Kadia Molodowsky

The Small Opinions of Great Men
” by G. Selikovitch, translated by Corbin Allardice, Matthew Johnson, Jessica Kirzane, and Jonah Lubin

Ed Asner’s Jewish Life
Highlights from Ed Asner's Oral History

Yidstock 2022: July 7-10
Yidstock 2022: The Festival of New Yiddish Music brings the best in klezmer and new Yiddish music to the stage at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts.

The Maximalist’s Daughter
The long history of the new Comprehensive English-Yiddish Dictionary

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.

Chapters: Gornisht mit gornisht - A Whole Lotta Nothin'
When Tuli Kupferberg, a cofounder of the 1960s neo-Beatnik rock group The Fugs, set out to write the group’s nihilistic manifesto “Nothing,” he didn’t stray far from his Ashkenazic background.

Toil and Testament: Sweatshop Poets
Yiddish poets of the Jewish working class

Work of Master Yiddish Writer Chaim Grade Digitized and Available for the First Time
The Yiddish Book Center announced that they have digitized and posted works of the Yiddish writer Chaim Grade, one of the great masters of modern Yiddish literature.

Singer Estate and Yiddish Book Center Bring Isaac Bashevis Singer’s Yiddish Works Online
Isaac Bashevis Singer’s Yiddish works are now freely available online through the Yiddish Book Center’s Steven Spielberg Digital Yiddish Library

Celia Dropkin's Paintings
In her final years, the poet replaced her pen with a paintbrush.

Celebrating Yiddish Women Writers
Items from our collections highlighting the voices of Yiddish women writers

Safeguard Our Future
Help us continue our crucial work in this dire time.

Celebrating Yiddish Poetry
Items by and about Yiddish poets and poetry from our collections.

Help Us Publish Never-Before-Translated Works of Yiddish Literature
With your support, we will create our own Yiddish Book Center publishing house dedicated specifically to Yiddish literature in translation.

Monument Goethe
A late poem from modernist Moyshe-Leyb Halpern. Translated by Matthew Johnson.