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A lit­tle piece of bureau­crat­ic uni­ver­si­ty paper­work reminds us of the inter­na­tion­al scope and depth of the work of great Jew­ish schol­ars like Max Weinreich. 

Jan 18, 2024

Ahead of Queer Yid­dish Camp and Rad Yiddish’s joint event ​“A Cabaret Fundrais­er for a Lefty/​Queer/​Yiddish Future”, three co-orga­niz­ers sat down to chat about what brings them to this cul­tur­al orga­niz­ing work.

Nov 30, 2023

Check out the pan­els and pre­sen­ta­tions involv­ing Yid­dish at this year’s Asso­ci­a­tion for Jew­ish Stud­ies Annu­al Conference.

Nov 28, 2023

Yid­dish Book Cen­ter fel­lows Char­lotte Apter, Joseph Reis­berg, and Caleb Sher, togeth­er with bib­li­og­ra­ph­er David Mazow­er, unpacked a his­toric dona­tion of the 500 or so titles that made up Nor­ma Fain Pratt’s col­lec­tion of wom­en’s writ­ing in Yiddish.

Nov 12, 2023

A dive into the pages of his­tor­i­cal Yid­dish news­pa­pers from the dawn of the nuclear age

Oct 26, 2023

In geveb and the For­tunoff Video Archive for Holo­caust Tes­ti­monies at Yale Uni­ver­si­ty are part­ner­ing to fund mean­ing­ful schol­ar­ship and cre­ative pro­duc­tions based on the unique Yid­dish oral his­to­ries at the For­tunoff Archive.

Oct 22, 2023

The Shnor­er Asso­ci­a­tion, also some­times known as The Shnor­er Club, spon­sored a vari­ety of cul­tur­al events in New York City from 1915 through around 1925.

Oct 04, 2023

Shund​.org launched in beta mode on August 9, 2023.

Oct 01, 2023

Spanish/​Lithuanian artists Adri­an Schvarzstein and Jūratė Širvytė-Rukštelė deliv­ered an inter­ac­tive, dynam­ic, word­less per­for­mance, titled אָנקומען /​Arrived/​Przybyli in the Kraków Street The­atre Festival. 

Sep 26, 2023

Wel­come to the 2023 – 2024 pub­lish­ing year!

Sep 13, 2023