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The National Yiddish Book Center

Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Building
1021 West Street
Amherst , MA 01002
413-256-4900 | Fax: 413-256-4700

Website: yiddishbookcenter.org/

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The Yiddish Book Center works to rescue Yiddish and other modern Jewish books and open up their content to the world.

As the world’s only comprehensive supplier of Yiddish books, the Book Center helped establish Yiddish collections at more than 600 great libraries, including Harvard, Yale, Library of Congress, the British Library, Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and national libraries in countries as distant as Australia, China...

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The Yiddish Book Center works to rescue Yiddish and other modern Jewish books and open up their content to the world.

Our beautiful 37,000-square-foot headquarters in Amherst, Massachusetts is a lebedike velt – a lively world featuring an open Yiddish book repository, theatres, art galleries, museum exhibitions about Yiddish language and culture, and more.

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Monday - Friday: 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Sundays (April-December 15):* 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.

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	Klezamir Presented by The National Yiddish Book Center at National Yiddish Book Center October 10, 2010 Klezamir takes Old World klezmer music and infuses it with rock and roll, jazz rhythms, swing beats, and country flair, certain to please the most diverse of crowds. Klezamir Presented by The National Yiddish Book Center at National Yiddish Book Center October 10, 2010 Event Rating (0 votes)
	Steve Stern in conversation with Rachel Rubinstein Presented by The National Yiddish Book Center at National Yiddish Book Center October 3, 2010 Author Steve Stern will discuss his new book -The Frozen Rabbi- with Rachel Rubinstein, associate professor of American Literature and Jewish Studies at Hampshire College. Steve Stern in conversation with Rachel Rubinstein Presented by The National Yiddish Book Center at National Yiddish Book Center October 3, 2010 Event Rating (0 votes)
	Gallery Talk: Presented by The National Yiddish Book Center at National Yiddish Book Center August 15, 2010 Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett explores the life and work of her father, Mayer Kirshenblatt, through the exhibition They Called Me Mayer July, which poignantly recalls the childhood experiences of the pre-war Jewish Polish immigrant. She considers the collaboration with her father on the exhibition and companion book a blessing and singular... Gallery Talk: Presented by The National Yiddish Book Center at National Yiddish Book Center August 15, 2010 Event Rating (0 votes)
	Music of David Botwinik Presented by The National Yiddish Book Center at National Yiddish Book Center August 8, 2010 Vilna-born composer David Botwinik presents his life’s work in the recently published musical collection From Holocaust to Life: New Yiddish Songs. The solo and choral works of the Music of David Botwinik will be performed by tenor Richard Lenatsky with piano accompaniment by Bowtinik’s son, Alexander Botwinik. David Botwinik will... Music of David Botwinik Presented by The National Yiddish Book Center at National Yiddish Book Center August 8, 2010 Event Rating (0 votes)
	Esn! Jewish Food in America Presented by National Yiddish Book Center at National Yiddish Book Center July 12, 2010 Rabbi Strassfeld, co-editor of "The Jewish Catalogs," explores his collection of Jewish food signs, menus, advertisements, and packaging. The themes of integration and separation, and assimilation and acculturation, are played out in the most basic component of life -- eating -- as demonstrated by the marketing of food to Jews in... Esn! Jewish Food in America Presented by National Yiddish Book Center at National Yiddish Book Center July 12, 2010 Event Rating (0 votes)

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