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Permanent and Visiting Exhibits

The world's first Yiddish museum, the Yiddish Book Center is home to extensive exhibits on Yiddish and Jewish culture.
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  • Visiting Exhibit: A Shtetl in the Sun

    A Shtetl in the Sun is on view in the Yiddish Book Center's Brechner Gallery through March 2020.

  • Lost Synagogues of Europe

    Lost Synagogues of Europe: a collection of early twentieth-century postcards on Jewish themes.

  • Unquiet Pages

    An exploration of modern Yiddish literature, drawing on the Center’s collection of more than one million Yiddish books

  • The Lee & Alfred Hutt Discovery Gallery

    An interactive exhibit celebrating Jewish cultural identity through personal stories, objects, and photographs

  • A Living Connection: Photographs from the An-sky Expeditions, 1912-1914

    A look at the groundbreaking work of Jewish ethnographer S. An-sky

  • The Nancy B. Weinstein Kinder-vinkl Children's Corner

    Yiddish games for the gantse mishpokhe—the whole family

  • The Schepps Family Yiddish Print Shop

    In our recreated Yiddish print shop, see a Yiddish linotype machine and learn about the important role of the Yiddish press.

  • Yiddish stage legend actress Ida Kaminska holds forth in the play "The Trees Die Standing." Photograph by Arnold Chekow

    Famous Long Ago

    Images of the still-lively Yiddish cultural scene in 1960s New York

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