At the end of the twentieth century, Chaim Grade preserved the memory of a Jewish tradition besieged by the forces of ...

The impossibility of conveying in ordinary Yiddish the experience of walking through the empty streets of one’s eradicated ...

Artifacts from 1,000 years of Ashkenazi Jewish life including literary transcripts, Herzl's diary, everyday notes and ...

Sons and Daughters,” Chaim Grade’s serialized novel about Jewish life in 1930s Europe, has been published in English for 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 ...

Reminiscent of King Tut’s Tomb, Grade’s Bronx apartment contained some 18,000 books, scores of Yiddish manuscripts, galleys of typescripts, thousands of letters, boxes of newspaper clippings ...

A coalition of strictly religious Jews and progressive, secular, and young Jews have been drawn to the language.

Yiddish, the historic language of Jews in Europe, was once spoken by tens of thousands of Jews in Los Angeles before largely ...

(JTA) — As of today, the first book in the Harry Potter series is available in Yiddish. “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” — or “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone,” as ...

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Dennis Marks continues his investigation in New York. He meets Aaron Lansky, founder of the National Yiddish Book Centre, a library dedicated to rescuing and saving Yiddish books - as he says ...

Its appearance shook the Yiddish literary world ... leaving behind a morass of 20,000 books, manuscripts, files and correspondence in their cluttered Bronx apartment. The Bronx public ...