The Berkshire Edge

BITS & BYTES: Cricket Creek Farm Fall Picnic; ‘Eva’s Promise’ at Yiddish Book Center; 2nd Street at Wander; Guy Mendilow and Regie Gibson at Adams Theater; Tarot ...

The public is invited to Cricket Creek Farm to enjoy delicious food, gorgeous views, animal visits, paintings of New England ...
The Boston Globe

At Amherst’s Yiddish Book Center, a new exhibition speaks volumes about Yiddish as ‘a global culture’

Yiddish — the language and culture — is part of the modern Jewish story, says chief curator David Mazower. And without it, ‘you don’t have the full story.’ What do a leather medicine ball, a steamer ...
BroadwayWorld

Yiddish Book Center Will Launch Major New Core Exhibition In October

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. This fall, the Yiddish Book Center presents a major new core exhibition that ...
Artnet

See 6 Highlights From a New Show on the Global Footprint of Yiddish Culture—From Avant-Garde Puppets to Cubist Book Covers

The Yiddish Book Center is something of a misnomer. The Amherst, Massachusetts, institution runs language classes, trains translators, produces podcasts, hosts the summer music festival Yidstock, and ...
The New York Times

He Rescued 1.5 Million Yiddish Books. Now He Will Have Time to Read Some.

Aaron Lansky spent a lifetime building the Yiddish Book Center, one of the country’s leading Jewish cultural institutions. He’s ready to hand over the reins. “I’m one of the luckiest people in the ...
The Forward

Aaron Lansky, who rescued 1.5 million Yiddish books and founded the Yiddish Book Center, is retiring

Sign up for Forwarding the News, our essential morning briefing with trusted, nonpartisan news and analysis, curated by senior writer Benyamin Cohen. Aaron Lansky ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

25 years after opening, Yiddish Book Center overhauls its core exhibit for a wider audience

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, ...
The Washington Post

Center Works to Preserve Yiddish a Book at a Time

A Jan. 19 article about a Massachusetts man preserving Yiddish literature incorrectly said that McGill University is in Toronto. It is in Montreal. (Published 1/20/05). AMHERST, Mass. -- History ...
Jewish Journal

Yiddish Book Center Receives $3 Million Gift

Yiddish has a brand new bag — of cash — thanks to the late comedy writer Mickey Ross who surprised The National Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Mass. with a $3 million donation from his estate. And ...
The Forward

This Yiddish book center in Queens lives on, just like the language it celebrates

Sign up for Forwarding the News, our essential morning briefing with trusted, nonpartisan news and analysis, curated by senior writer Benyamin Cohen. (New York Jewish ...
MassLive

Yiddish Book Center preps for reopening

AMHERST — The Yiddish Book Center is re-opening to visitors on June 24. Officially closed March 12, 2020, because of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is now able to open as under “current guidelines, museums ...
The Boston Globe

Yiddish Book Center to launch major core exhibition this fall

The Amherst institution’s ‘Yiddish: A Global Culture’ will tell stories of migration, personal transformation, creativity, and ethnic solidarity through 350 objects Is there such a thing as modern ...