Aaron Lansky, who rescued 1.5 million Yiddish books and founded the Yiddish Book Center, is retiring
He went looking for Yiddish books as a grad student. He ended up saving a whole world of literature, language and culture
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The Schmooze Words on Display at the National Yiddish Book Center
Crossposted From Under the Fig Tree As just about everyone knows by now, the National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia has opened a spanking new, $150 million facility where, say its supporters, the “American Jewish dream has been fulfilled.” Meanwhile, the National Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Mass., has just debuted a number…
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The Schmooze A Star Is Born at KlezKanada
Each year the KlezKanada Summer Institute, held for a week in August in the Laurentian mountains north of Montreal, reveals new surprises. This time around choreographer Steven Weintraub introduced a masquerade ball, so couples were dancing “Pas Despans” along with their bulgars and freilichs. Eight virtuoso musicians from The Other Europeans project, which examines Jewish…
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