Yiddish Book Center

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The Yiddish Book Center recovers, preserves, teaches, and celebrates Yiddish literature and culture to advance a fuller understanding of Jewish history and i...

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Yiddish on Display, with Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett The 2026 Melinda Rosenblatt Lecture

100 Objects from the Collections of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research with Stefanie Halpern

Book Talk Russ & Daughters 100 Years of Appetizing with Niki Russ Federman and Josh Russ Tupper

Performing with Comics Rodney Dangerfield and Dina Claire in the Catskills

Performing for Politicians at the Alfalfa Club in Washington, D.C.

Alice in Easterland Performing at Radio City Music Hall

From the Poconos to the Catskills Changing Tastes and Trends

Gypsy A Musical Fable, From Broadway to Film

My First Big Break The Start of a Musical Career

Four Foot Body with a Six Foot Voice The Story of Dina Claire

Groups and Community A Yiddish Reading Circle in Amsterdam

Studying Yiddish Literature with David Roskies

It's Like a Model of a Utopian Society The Yiddish Book Center's Steiner Summer Yiddish Program

Idea to Make A Series of Yiddish Radio Plays

I Came to Yiddish Because I Wanted Something that Felt Authentic and Jewish to Me

Voices from the Yiddish Stage with Christa P. Whitney

Who Were the Cantonists How the Russian Army Brought Jews to Finland

Getting Into Yiddish as a Non-Jew

Just My Fate to Be the Outsider

My Involvement in the Finnish Yiddish Theater

Making and Unmaking Literature in the Warsaw, Lodz, and Vilna Ghettos

Translator Talk Adventures of Max Spitzkopf The Yiddish Sherlock Holmes, with Mikhl Yashinsky

The Underlying Force of Yiddish on American Jewish Culture and American Cultural Artifacts

The Scrubbing of Yiddishkayt Zionist Suppression of Yiddish and the Erasure of Jewish Ethnicity

Finding A Home Within Jewish American Literature

Book Talk A Gilded Age Queen Battling Antisemitism

The Yiddish Spoke to Me More Than the English A Newfound Connection During a Time of Darkness

Recording Broadway A Life in Cast Albums, with Thomas Z. Shepard

Yiddish A Global Culture Bold Stories, Boundless Creativity, with David Mazower and Lisa Newman

Spending a Summer Living Out Your Passion Life at the Yiddish Book Center