National Yiddish Book Center Employee Directory

Non-profit OrganizationsMassachusetts, United States51-200 Employees

The National Yiddish Book Center is a non-profit organization dedicated to rescuing Yiddish and other modern Jewish books and to celebrating the culture they contain. It positions itself as a leading repository and access point for Yiddish literature, maintaining an open book repository, governance over a 37,000-square-foot headquarters in Amherst, Massachusetts, and a range of cultural programs including theatres and museum exhibitions focused on Yiddish language and culture. The center has facilitated the establishment of Yiddish collections in more than 600 libraries worldwide, among them major institutions such as Harvard, Yale, the Library of Congress, and the British Library, and has digitized and made thousands of titles freely downloadable through its Digital Yiddish Library, expanding accessibility to endangered literature. Its activities also include long-running projects like the Wexler Oral History Project, which collects in-depth video interviews to document evolving perspectives on Yiddish language and Jewish identity. Founded in 1980 by Aaron Lansky, the organization is based in Amherst, in the New England region of the United States, and operates as a community-focused institution within the non-profit sector.

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