Yiddish culture fans should take a look at the Yiddish Book Center’s recently launched website. Called Yiddish: A Global Culture, Virtual Exhibit, it’s an online version of their marvelous permanent ...

The Yiddish Book Center is something of a misnomer. The Amherst, Massachusetts, institution runs language classes, trains translators, produces podcasts, hosts the summer music festival Yidstock, and ...

Yiddish — the language and culture — is part of the modern Jewish story, says chief curator David Mazower. And without it, ‘you don’t have the full story.’ What do a leather medicine ball, a steamer ...

Just as the Yiddish Book Center has played a key role in revitalizing interest in the study of Yiddish literature and language, the Amherst center also has done its part to keep alive one of the ...

AMHERST, Massachusetts (JTA) — Since its opening in 1997, the Yiddish Book Center has wowed visitors with its architecture. A Jewish village resurrected on a college campus in sylvan Amherst, ...

AMHERST — It was never in David Mazower’s life plan to move to America for a job at the Yiddish Book Center. It was also never in his plan to spearhead what just might be the first permanent ...

The Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts, recently got a total makeover. The center, one of the preeminent Yiddish institutions in the world, offers a wide variety of indispensable resources ...

Aaron Lansky, president and founder of the Yiddish Book Center, in Amherst, will be retiring in June 2025, the center announced Tuesday. His successor as president will be YBC executive director Susan ...

The conversation between Kassow and Lansky will follow a screening of the 2018 documentary film "Who Will Write Our History," based on Kassow's 2007 book of the same name. Kassow will also be signing ...

ChaiFlicks has entered a content partnership with the Yiddish Book Center, a nonprofit organization dedicated to Yiddish literature and culture based in Amherst, Massachusetts. ChaiFlicks has begun ...

Steven Spielberg had already donated money to the Yiddish Book Center when he asked if the center’s founder, Aaron Lansky, might fly out to Los Angeles and drop by his office. The filmmaker doesn’t ...

EXCLUSIVE: Jewish streamer ChaiFlicks has struck its first deal for Yiddish programming including an oral history project with Leonard Nimoy. The streamer will make documentary features and short ...