Artnet

See 6 Highlights From a New Show on the Global Footprint of Yiddish Culture—From Avant-Garde Puppets to Cubist Book Covers

The Yiddish Book Center is something of a misnomer. The Amherst, Massachusetts, institution runs language classes, trains translators, produces podcasts, hosts the summer music festival Yidstock, and ...
The Boston Globe

At Amherst’s Yiddish Book Center, a new exhibition speaks volumes about Yiddish as ‘a global culture’

Yiddish — the language and culture — is part of the modern Jewish story, says chief curator David Mazower. And without it, ‘you don’t have the full story.’ What do a leather medicine ball, a steamer ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Arts & Culture with Digital Library, Yiddish Books Suddenly Become Accessible to All

Until recently, it seemed you could find Yiddish books only in obscure libraries or the attic of someone’s grandparents. But this week, Yiddish became one of the most accessible literatures on earth.
The Washington Post

Center Works to Preserve Yiddish a Book at a Time

A Jan. 19 article about a Massachusetts man preserving Yiddish literature incorrectly said that McGill University is in Toronto. It is in Montreal. (Published 1/20/05). AMHERST, Mass. -- History ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

25 years after opening, Yiddish Book Center overhauls its core exhibit for a wider audience

AMHERST, Massachusetts (JTA) — Since its opening in 1997, the Yiddish Book Center has wowed visitors with its architecture. A Jewish village resurrected on a college campus in sylvan Amherst, ...
BroadwayWorld

Yiddish Book Center Will Launch Major New Core Exhibition In October

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. This fall, the Yiddish Book Center presents a major new core exhibition that ...
Daily Hampshire Gazette

A dream fulfilled: Aaron Lansky, whose Yiddish Book Center helped reclaim a culture, stepping aside

Aaron Lansky, founder and president of the Yiddish Book Center, will retire next year and cede leadership to Susan Bronson, the center’s executive director. Aaron Lansky, seen here circa 1980, was ...
Berkshire Eagle

Is the world’s first Yiddish museum in Amherst?

AMHERST — It was never in David Mazower’s life plan to move to America for a job at the Yiddish Book Center. It was also never in his plan to spearhead what just might be the first permanent ...
The Forward

Magnificent permanent exhibit opens at Amherst’s Yiddish Book Center

The Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts, recently got a total makeover. The center, one of the preeminent Yiddish institutions in the world, offers a wide variety of indispensable resources ...
The Forward

How classic Yiddish tales are being brought back to life — and in English too!

David Forman’s newest book is an old one. Rich with tales of giants, the Tudor court and highwaymen besieging a humble Jewish village, “The Clever Little Tailor” is the first English translation and ...
Sun Sentinel

Yiddish book center in Queens lives on, just like the language it celebrates

(New York Jewish Week) — In a rickety warehouse in Long Island City, reached only by a footbridge that crosses underneath the Long Island Expressway, some 80,000 Yiddish books are stacked on shelves ...
The Washington Post

She wrote in the Holocaust’s shadow. Can Poland bear to read her?

The Yiddish writer Chava Rosenfarb was born 100 years ago, into a world that no longer exists. In 1923, Lodz was home to the second-largest Jewish community in Poland, about 250,000 Jews, more than a ...