“library studies”

How do moments of rupture shape the practices of institutions devoted to Jewish history? 

Jun 03, 2024

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

Baker explores the career of Abraham S. Freidus, a reclusive, pioneering, and Yiddish-theater-loving Judaica librarian. His research reveals the tight nexus that existed a century ago between a small coterie of Eastern European-born Judaica librarians in the United States; their philanthropic patrons of Central European background; and the largely male, Yiddish-speaking readers who frequented the important Jewish libraries of that era. 

Mar 07, 2021