Yiddish Book Center
Yiddish Book Center, Exhibit
Yiddish Book Center 1021 West Street, Amherst, MAHarvey Wang’s New York Opening June 16, 2024, at the Yiddish Book Center Where else but New York? Where would you still find a 97-year-old scrap-metal collector, a pillow maker, a mannequin maker, or someone who still digs graves with a shovel? But not for long. Harvey Wang’s beautiful and often poignant portraits show us…
Yiddish Book Center, Talk
Yiddish Book Center 1021 West Street, Amherst, MAThey Called Me Mayer: Painted Memories of a Jewish Childhood in Poland before the Holocaust with Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett Register for the Zoom talk with Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett Mayer Kirshenblatt was born in 1916 and left Poland for Canada in 1934. He taught himself to paint at age 73 and made it his mission to remember the world…
Yiddish Book Center, Talk
Yiddish Book Center 1021 West Street, Amherst, MAHow the Holocaust Changed the Yiddish Language, with Hannah Pollin-Galay Events Join us in person or on Zoom | Sunday, December 15, 2:00 p.m. ET Register for the Zoom livestream with Hannah Pollin-Galay Join us at the Yiddish Book Center and on Zoom for a conversation with associate professor of literature Hannah Pollin-Galay and professor…
Yiddish Book Center, Hanukkah
Yiddish Book Center 1021 West Street, Amherst, MAChanukah, oy khaneke! Who knew that “menorah,” the familiar American Jewish term for the Hanukkah candelabrum, comes from Ladino? In Yiddish, the nine-branched candle holder is a khanike-lempl (Hanukkah lamp), and in Israeli Hebrew it’s a hanukia. That’s not the only linguistic confusion surrounding the Festival of Lights. According to Dovid Braun, “there are more…