The world’s first Yiddish museum, the Yiddish Book Center is home to permanent and visiting exhibits; two performance halls with a year-round schedule of public and educational programs; the annual Yidstock: The Festival of New Yiddish Music; an English-language bookstore; and a million Yiddish books. The Yiddish Book Center is a non-profit organization working to tell the whole Jewish story by rescuing, translating, and disseminating Yiddish books and presenting innovative educational programs that broaden understanding of modern Jewish identity.
When Martin Broder’s family moved from Brooklyn to Detroit, his family began embarking on annual family trips back to Brooklyn each Passover. It was the one time of year everyone got together—and in this oral history excerpt, Martin provides extraordinary snapshots of the members of his family he’d see around the Seder table every year. […]
The day's events include the 2023 Melinda Rosenblatt Lecture, In the Midst of Civilized Europe: Jews and Ukraine in Times of War presented by Jeffrey Veidlinger at 2 p.m. and the opening of our newest exhibit, Ray Faust: A Life in Paintings All events are free and open to the public. Full Schedule: Ray Faust painted sketch of musicians […]
Undzer Biblyotek: Montreal’s Jewish Public Library at the Center of Yiddish Culture, with Sebastian Schulman, Rivka Augenfeld, and Sonia Bloom | Thursday, April 20 @ 7 p.m. Founded in 1914, Montreal’s Jewish Public Library (JPL) has long been considered a major center of Yiddish culture, research, and community. In this presentation, we will explore the […]
CONVERSATION | Artist and Writer Ray Faust (1900–1993) with Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett and Barry Faust | Thursday, April 27 @ 7 p.m. EST Join curator Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett and Barry Faust (grandson of Ray Faust) for a conversation about artist and writer Ray Faust (1900–1993.) Ray was dedicated to Yiddish—the language and culture. Whether with pen or […]
East European Jews between Renaissance and Futurelessness, with Kenneth Moss | Thursday, May 4 @ 7 pm In 1913, the university student Max Weinreich produced brilliant Yiddish translations from Homer’s Iliad and the Gilgamesh epic in service to a passionate vision of Jewish cultural renaissance and reinvention. In 1933, Weinreich began a study of the […]
Yidstock: The Festival of New Yiddish Music bringing the best in klezmer and new Yiddish music to the stage at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts. Purchase a concert pass (allows admission to all concerts—but does not include admission to talks, films, or singing workshops), or tickets to individual concerts and events may be […]
