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The center has also been the leading provider of yiddish texts for the public and private sectors. The yiddish book center works to rescue yiddish and other modern jewish books and open up their content to the world. Perhaps the most ambitious project of all is the steven spielberg digital yiddish library, a project of the national yiddish book center and the internet archive comprising some 11,000 free. A guide to the most essential yiddish books in our collection. Using the keyword yiddish, europeana includes links to nearly 25,000 results in various formatsonly 1,105 of which are freely accessible online i. When you enter the building, you walk onto the graycarpeted mezzanine and can look over the collection. The judges called the yiddish book center a unique organization that involves the public, publishers, libraries, and upcoming generations of translators in a broad and imaginative program to. Yiddish radio host ben gailings freylekher kabtsn happy pauper program was a fixture in boston homes for over sixtyseven years, from 1931 until his death at the age of 100 in april 1999. Kadimah jewish cultural centre and national library. Forum for yiddish literature and yiddish language michael davidson early hebrew printing homepage the museum of family history, the yiddish world museum of the history of polish jews, warsaw, poland national yiddish book center, spielberg digital yiddish library new york public librarydorot jewish division, new york. More than 10,000 of our titles are now available freeofcharge through the open content alliance. The national yiddish book center was founded in 1980 by macarthur fellow aaron lansky, who continues to lead the organization as its president. How a mensch from massachusetts saved yiddish literature for generations to come by sue macy.
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The achievements of the yiddish book center have been recognized both with a macarthur genius grant for our president and founder, aaron lansky, and by the receipt of the national medal for museum and library service in 2014. See all formats and editions hide other formats and editions. In addition, we can provide you with used copies and reprints of most yiddish titles at nominal cost. The yiddish book center is a vibrant, nonprofit organization working to rescue yiddish and other modern jewish books and celebrate the culture they contain. The yiddish book center is a nonprofit organization working to recover, celebrate, and regenerate yiddish. In 2017, paula vogels play indecent about a controversial yiddish play won the tony awards for best direction of.
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