Saving a million yiddish books was just the beginning. The decade of discovery is a new initiative of the yiddish book center designed to foster a deeper understanding of yiddish and modern jewish culture. These books are scanned from the new york public librarys yizkor book collection. At the peak of its popularity, new york s catskills regiondubbed the borscht belt because of its popularity with jewish vacationerswas. Ron tal is an israeliborn, new york citybased actor. National yiddish book center jewish virtual library. From the bowery to broadway, now at the museum of the city of new york. The yiddish book center far surpassed my expectations. Yiddish writers and their descendants beyond the books. Search the full text of our books in yiddish at our fulltext book search site. Recent credits include fiddler on the roof in yiddish at stage 42, a chorus line at arvada center, and on the town at olney theatre center. Curator laura kruger talks about the yiddish book center s new visiting exhibit in the brechner gallery through march, 2017, a multiartist exhibit that focuses on the experiences of eastern european jewish immigrants on new york s lower east side.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with kalman weiser. But when the protagonist of this novel begins her diary, it is december 15, 1939, and she knows full well that things have gone terribly badly before her arrival in. Marcel kshensky, educator and son of holocaust survivors, was interviewed by nina pick on april 4th, 2019 in new york, ny. Yiddish resources department of germanic languages. An excerpt from across america acclaimed novelist and playwright peretz hirschbein had a passion for traveling. Perhaps this was a sign that things would go well for me in america. Featuring the melinda rosenblatt lecture presented by adam kirsch. As a jewish intellectual, zweig struggles to find the right stance towards the events in nazi germany, while searching for a home in the new. I had no idea it offered so many fabulous programs, had such an astonishing repository of yiddish books and was collecting them from all over the world, not. English translations for many are found on jewishgen and in print. The yiddish book center is a beautiful place architectuarlly and spiritually. Beginning with the center s 40th anniversary in 2020, and continuing for each of the next ten years, the center will select an annual theme. The yiddish book center is a copresenter of the exhibit new yorks yiddish theater. Participants make their own arrangements for transportation, housing and meals.
New york city is a flourishing center for yiddish literature, theater, and communal affairs. Contact the yiddish book center for information about reprint copies of these books. The yiddish book center is a nonprofit organization working to recover. The centers work is intellectually and emtionally inspiring. Our hours, directions to the center, local accommodations. Register by october 24 for our weekend program on new york jewish photographers with professor deborah dash moore. Columbia undergraduates and graduate students can also register for yiddish literature courses at the jewish theological seminary a few blocks away, and take advantage of the seminarys excellent library and rare yiddish book collection. More than 11,000 yiddish titles available to read online or.
Yiddish new york hosts online boards encouraging sharing rides and housing. The yiddish book was serialized in 1941, describing events that begin in december 1939. The yiddish book centers coming to america reading groups for. Eve jochnowitz scholar of ashkenazi foodways shares her favorite jewish restaurants in new york city and she shares what to order there. The new york public libraryyiddish book center yizkor book collection includes 650 digitized yizkor books from the collections of the two institutions. We offer a yearround schedule of films, talks, concerts, family programs, and. This guide lists the yizkor book collection alphabetically by town or city name. Revisiting the remains of americas jewish vacationland, with marisa scheinfeld. Read on for more information about the family who donated the volumes and the significance of this special addition to the yiddish book center s collection. The years of exile in the life of stefan zweig, one of the most read germanlanguage writers of his time, between buenos aires, new york and brazil.
Typically, these books were published in israel or new york, or, occasionally, in buenos aires. Yizkor memorial books document the history of jewish communities destroyed in the holocaust. Yiddish books 11741 apply yiddish books filter yizkor books 649 apply yizkor books filter yiddish audiobooks 9 apply yiddish audiobooks filter archival recordings 752 apply archival recordings filter oral histories full length 789 apply oral histories full length filter oral histories excerpts 4219 apply oral histories excerpts filter. Join us tomorrow at 7pm edt on zoom or facebook for a virtual author talk with ben katchor, the new yorkbased cartoonist. Home yizkor books libguides at new york public library. Reading discussion guide for a jewish refugee in new york by kadya molodovsky. From hebrew union collegejewish institute of religion museum. Yvette chave marrin, daughter of yiddish writers malka lee and aaron rappoport, describes her fathers childhood in a rural setting in upstate new york. Features books and gifts related to yiddish language and culture. How a mensch from massachusetts saved yiddish literature for generations to come by sue macy. The yiddish book center is a nonprofit organization that works to tell the whole jewish story by rescuing, translating, and disseminating yiddish books and p. The effort prompted the new york times to declare yiddish proportionately the most accessible literature on the planet. All books coming into the center are sorted by hand and new titles are catalogued according to library standards. What does the book tell you about the history of those early war years.
Yiddish book center picks shaker heights library for reading group. Yiddish book centers spielberg digital yiddish library. The first major exhibit on new yorks yiddish theater, it recaptures that vibrant world through original artifacts, costumes, photographs, ephemera, and. Watch a bridge of books, sam balls awardwinning documentary about the. Our priority now is to advance knowledge of the content and literary and cultural progeny of the books weve saved. Support the yiddish book center yiddish book center. In early february, the yiddish book center fellows traveled to new york city to pick up a donation of more than one thousand yiddish books from the personal library of yiddish author moyshe shtarkman. A history from colonial times to today by pamela s. New york, new york narratorbirthplace berlin, germany narratorbirthyear 1911 narratordeceaseddate 7252014 narratorfirstname bel narratorlastname kaufman relatedauthorloc sholem aleichem, 18591916 run time 1. Its books, its library, its programs invite you to experience a world that has almost disappeared,the world of yiddish culture. Known for his drawings on the new york times oped page, hes also the author and illustrator of numerous books and his work is represented in museum collections worldwide.
Yiddish book center amherst 2020 all you need to know. The yiddish book center is a nonprofit organization working to recover, celebrate, and regenerate yiddish and modern jewish literature and culture. The yiddish book center national yiddish book center, located on the campus of hampshire. By depicting one womans struggles as a jewish refugee in the us during wwii, molodovsky points readers to the social, political, and cultural tensions of. Katchors new book, the dairy restaurant, were community cornerstones. Yiddish book center, 1021 west st, amherst, ma 2020. From university of california libraries list, the university of floridas literature for children collection, the national yiddish book center, the new york public library, international childrens digital library, and other libraries. Yiddish new york yny nurtures a diverse international and intergenerational community, engaging with east european jewish and other jewish and coterritorial. In this fictionalized journal originally published in yiddish, author kadya molodovsy provides keen insight into the daytoday activities of the large immigrant jewish community of new york.
Join us tomorrow at 7pm edt on zoom or facebook for a virtual author talk with ben katchor, the new york based cartoonist, illustrator, and author of the new book the dairy restaurant, which reimagines, through words and drawings, the history of jewish eating by examining the events and ideas that led to the proliferation of the dairy restaurant in new york city. Buy books make a donation about cyco our blog calendar of yiddish events history of yiddish for beginners yiddish links cyco publishing housecyco records tel. About the steiner summer yiddish program yiddish book center. The first major exhibit on new yorks yiddish theater, it recaptures that vibrant world through original artifacts, costumes, photographs, ephemera, and documents.
Her character, rivke, arrives in new york in december 1939. As part of the yiddish book center wexler oral history project, leonard nimoy explains the origin of the vulcan hand signal used by spock, his character in the star trek series. The essays in these volumes may be all in hebrew, or all in yiddish, or some in one language and some in the other. See a tag cloud for the internet archive childrens book collection. The yiddish book center is a nonprofit organization working to recover, celebrate, and regenerate yiddish. We offer fellowships and courses for high school students, college students. A new initiative of the yiddish book centers designed to foster a deeper. Nimoy explains origin of vulcan greeting the new york times. The yiddish book center national yiddish book center, located on the campus of hampshire college in amherst, massachusetts, united states, is a cultural institution dedicated to the preservation of books in the yiddish language, as well as the culture and history those books represent. About the frances brandt online yiddish audio library.
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