Happy #EarthDay ! In this clip, native Yiddish speaker and Holocaust survivor William Good, z’’l, (1924-2020) reflects on his daily journey through the forest to get to school in Nemenčinė, Lithuania as a child, and how these walks shaped his relationship with the natural world.

Pesach begins tomorrow evening so here's a lovely kid's edition of the holiday story, written by Bobbi Zylberman with illustrations by Naomi Burstin, and published in 1992 by the Melbourne-based Koala Publishing Company. A zisn peysekh!

Getting ready for the New York premiere of Tea Arciszewska’s “Miryeml” The YIVO Institute, directed by caraid o'brien, wonderful cast including Alona Bach Dylan Seders Hoffman Mikhl. My Yiddish Book Center supported translation.

Tonight 7pm ET (and on Zoom). yivo.org/Miryeml

We are thrilled to announce that our award-winning documentary film, Ver Vet Blaybn? (Ver Vet Blaybn? (Who Will Remain?)) about #Yiddish writer Avrom #Sutzkever is now available for home viewing on our YouTube channel and website. yiddishbookcenter.org/whowillremainf…

April is #NationalPoetryMonth ! To celebrate, we’re sharing a clip from social historian Paul Buhle, who discusses the importance of poetry in American Yiddish labor movements and how poetry sustained a spirit of resistance among striking workers.

In honor of the solar eclipse today, here's Phillip Krantz’s 1918 Himl un erd: Astronomye farn folk (Heaven and Earth: Astronomy for the People), which features an illustration of a solar eclipse and diagrams of planetary phases. Learn more: bit.ly/yiddishastrono…

We’re excited to announce that the Yiddish Book Center’s award-winning film, Ver Vet Blaybn? (Who will Remain?), will be released for home viewing. Starting the week of April 14th, you'll be able to access the film on the Yiddish Book Center’s YouTube channel and website.

Join us Sunday, April 7, @ 2 pm ET for 'The Voyages of Memory,' a virtual conversation with Marjorie Agosín and Ruth Behar, acclaimed Jewish Latin American authors and longtime friends. Registration is free and required: support.yiddishbookcenter.org/site/Ticketing…

Interested in finding out more about Tea Arciszewska's play 'Miryeml' prior to the March 6 reading in London JW3 and the April 18 reading The YIVO Institute in New York?
You can now read an excerpt in my translation on the Yiddish Book Center website! 1/4 yiddishbookcenter.org/discover/yiddi…

Come join us in PDX for this special event, a partnership between Yiddish Book Center & OJMCHE - April 6 @ 7 PM - talkback w directors (@SubatomicEmily & Christa P. Whitney ) following the screening. bit.ly/WhoWillRemainP…

As Women's History Month comes to a close, we're sharing an episode from the archives of The Shmooze in which editors Eitan Kensky and Ozzy Gold-Shapiro sat down to talk about a special 'Pakn Treger Translation Issue' devoted to writing by women: yiddishbookcenter.org/language-liter…

Join us tmw, 3/28, @ 7pm ET for a virtual public program about Moss Bros., the high-end clothing company that has been shaping British fashion for 160 years. With Bethan Bide and Dr Lucie Whitmore. Register: bit.ly/mossfashion

March 23rd marked Yiddish poet, novelist, and teacher Kadia Molodowsky’s 49th yortsayt. In 2018, we had the privilege of interviewing Molodowsky’s niece, Edith Schwarz, who shared with us a treasure trove of photos and trinkets from throughout Molodowsky’s life.

A freylekhn purim (happy Purim)! We’re celebrating with this Yiddish Purim song, 'Hop! Mayne Homentashn,” performed by Yiddish activist and artist Sue Ehrlich during her interview with the Yiddish Book Center’s Wexler Oral History Project.

In honor of #WorldPoetryDay , we’re sharing a clip of Chana Mrocki, z’’l, 1938-2018, reciting from memory a heartfelt rendition of Mani Leib’s poem, Blimelekh ḳrentselekh (Flower Displays).