Free shipping on many items browse your favorite brands. The yiddish book center national yiddish book center, located on the campus of hampshire college in amherst, massachusetts, united states, is a cultural institution dedicated to the preservation of books in the yiddish language, as well as the culture and history those books represent. Helix project program for artists and cultural producers online. Helix transforms jewish historybringing students to the historical heartland of european jewish life to expl check out the helix project on indiegogo. Explore our digital yiddish library of more than 11,000 titles, and our diverse collections, including contemporary oral histories, lectures, yiddish audiobooks, and more. My book, born to kvetch, has sold more copies than any other book about yiddish. Since 2010, the yiddish book centers wexler oral history project has recorded more than 500 indepth video interviews that provide a deeper understanding of the jewish experience and the legacy and changing nature of yiddish language and culture.
Its name refers to the cultural concept of yiddishkayt, yiddish culture, literally jewishness or yiddishness, which the american jewish critic irving howe described not in. Helix teaches that no culture or history can be understood without its local context. Wexler oral history project of the yiddish book center. The steven spielberg digital yiddish library includes more than 11,000 yiddish titles available to read online or download free of charge. The helix project is less a language program than a. The amazing adventures of a man who rescued a million yiddish books kindle edition by lansky, aaron. The yiddish book centers wexler oral history project is a growing collection of indepth video interviews with people of all ages, exploring yiddish cultural topics and issues of modern jewish identity. Helix project making the jewish past present youtube. Yiddish scholar, yiddishkayts education director, and helix project leader discusses the historical idea of doikayt being rooted to the here and now of life in the diaspora and connected to. I am a writer and translator who specializes in yiddish. Yiddish radio project music from the yiddish radio.
However, helix is a cultural history program, not a language intensive. Erin faigin, reflections on space in learning yiddish, in geveb, december 22, 2015. Helix is the opportunity for students and scholars to explore historical borderlands through the lens of jewish and intercultural creativity. The yiddish project is a company that publishes yiddish educational materials that are used worldwide by students of yiddish.
The helix fellowship uses old maps, directions from townsfolk, our collective language skills, and flour generously lent by local households to help decode the gravestones we find. David shneer program in jewish studies university of. The amazing adventures of a man who rescued a million yiddish books lansky, aaron on. Helix instructor and scholar of yiddish culture, mandy cohen reflects on the frontiers of a divided world after the 2014 helix project investigate yiddish discover life. Helix participants sang yiddish, and on occasion belarusian, songs everywhere on the bus to pass the time, but also in town. He served as scholarinresidence for the helix project that took students to belarus, lithuania, and latvia.
Amazing images from the helix project s pilot summer tracing the history of jewish life and culture in lite poland, belarus, and lithuania. A great way to learn how to read and speak yiddish the way it was spoken in prewar europe. Wexler oral history project of the yiddish book center home. His most recent book is the awardwinning through soviet jewish eyes. Helix programming deals with yiddish and other regional languages, depending on the interests and backgrounds of each unique cohort. Yiddish scholar, yiddishkayts education director, and helix project leader discusses the historical idea of doikayt being rooted to the here. The decade of discovery is a new initiative of the yiddish book center designed to foster a deeper understanding of yiddish and modern jewish culture. He also created and runs the helix project, a travelbased immersion in european jewish cultural history. The homepage of yiddishkayt where the jewish past becomes present. Christa whitney director of the wexler oral history project at the yiddish book center. Beginning with the centers 40th anniversary in 2020, and continuing for each of the next ten years, the center will select an annual theme. In yiddish, the song is called di shvue the oath, written by the famous. Now featuring selections from the frances brandt online yiddish audio library and the sami rohr library of recorded yiddish books, produced by the yiddish book center in cooperation with the.
Also, in this oral history from the wexler oral history project, alana fichman discusses her experiences in the helix project. The yiddish book center is a nonprofit organization that works to tell the whole jewish story by rescuing, translating, and disseminating yiddish books and p. Im flirting with the idea of starting a yiddish book club ive never read a book along with others and liked the experience, so it may only have one member. She has also taught beginning yiddish for lehrhaus judaica in the bay area and directs yiddishkayts helix project. Featured helix project yiddish culture yiddishkayt.
Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Some of the most visible remaining markers of historically multiethnic communities in central and eastern are cemeteries. To honor that history, here is a video of the helix students singing the anthem of the bund in the jewish cemetery. The yiddish radio project is the soundtrack companion cd for the upcoming 10 part npr radio series celebrating the golden age of yiddish radio in america 19301955. Who will remain, what will remain helix in smorgon youtube. The amazing adventures of a man who rescued a million yiddish books. Singer endowed chair in jewish history and professor of history, religious studies and jewish studies, had a busy summer of globetrotting. A collection of audio books, recorded programs and multimedia resources from the yiddish book center.
The yiddish radio project is based on a series of stories featured on nprs all things considered in the spring of 2002. The yivo library in new york contains over 385,000 volumes dating from as early as the 16th century. Wexler oral history project of the yiddish book center, amherst, massachusetts. Alana fichman, 2014 yiddish book centers steiner summer yiddish program. A growing collection of indepth interviews with people of all ages and backgrounds, whose stories about the legacy and changing nature of yiddish language and culture offer a rich and complex chronicle of jewish identity. We are two phd candidates seeking a senior scholar to join our interdisciplinary panel on jewish life in poland under communism 19481989. The yiddish book centers wexler oral history project is a growing collection of indepth interviews about. Yivobard uriel weinreich summer program in yiddish language, literature, and culture new york, new york, usa. Approximately 40,000 volumes are in yiddish, making the yivo library the largest collection of yiddish. The yiddish book centers wexler oral history project is a.
Wallis annenberg helix program, a project of yiddishkayt, a yiddish. This period represents a complex period for jewish people and institutions in postwar poland, a time in which the polish state and the polish jewish community were being rebuilt simultaneously, but also in tension with one another. The joys of yiddish leo rosten 1968 hc dj lexicon hebrew yinglish jewish rare. The helix in the yiddish forward yiddishkayt hq 5 september 2015 december 14th, 2018 from ojai to a vilna goodbye, 2015 helixer and journalist for the forverts, itsik bleaman, reports on the peregrinations of this years helix project. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading outwitting history. For the past three years, mindl has taught the intensive beginning yiddish language course at uc berkeley. I am a writer and translator who specializes in yiddish language and culture. In its heyday yiddish radio was heard from coast to coast, with a dozen stations in new york alone. Yivo preserves manuscripts, rare books, and diaries, and other yiddish sources. Make offer sefer pabianice yizkor book yiddish hebrew pabyanits. Get the best deals on yiddish book when you shop the largest online selection at. Since 2010, the yiddish book centers wexler oral history project has recorded more than 500 indepth video interviews that provide a deeper understanding of the jewish experience and the legacy and changing nature of yiddish.
Steiner summer yiddish program, yiddish book center amherst. The creative coexistence of jews with their neighbors demonstrates precisely this. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. The experience and impact of the helix project watch now. The project is particularly interested in how yiddish language and culture inform jewish. Helixers travel through the white russian countryside, outside of smorgon, the birthplace of yiddish poet avrom sutzkever and listen to the poet himself read his poem ver vet blaybn who will. A friendship that changed our minds hardcover december 6, 2016. Program for students, artists and educators online.
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