We’re excited to join the Brooklyn Book Festival for their Virtual Festival Day, happening this Sunday, 9/22, @ 4pm ET. Susan Bronson, the Center’s executive director, will be participating in the online panel, “The Stories of a People, a Language, a Place . . .” Register: brooklynbookfestival.org/.../the-storie…

Join us next Thurs, 9/26, @ 7pm ET for a virtual talk with historian Andrew Whitehead about the infamous 1911 siege of Sidney Street. Andrew will explore what the shootout revealed about London’s Jewish East End and its Yiddish-speaking anarchist movement: yiddishbookcenter.org/events/siege-s…

We are mourning the loss of Fania Brantsovsky [Jocheles], z”l (1922-2024), whom thousands met on visits to Vilnius (Vilna), where Fania gave walking tours and served as the librarian of the former Vilnius Yiddish Institute. yiddishbookcenter.org/collections/or… Koved ir likhtikn ondenk

Our friends Wasafiri are hosting the first workshop with their 2024/25 Translator-in-Residence Sawad Hussain. ‘Writing Your Translation Memoir' is taking place online on Tuesday, October 8, 7-9pm. More information & tickets: wasafiri.org/news-and-event…

Rosh Hashanah begins this evening and from all of us at the Yiddish Book Center, we wish you a zis, gezunt yor—a sweet, healthy New Year! Pictured here is a holiday card designed by our very own Giovanna (Toyve-Gitl) Truong and photographed in the Center’s apple orchard.

Dictionary lovers rejoice! Today is National Dictionary Day, and in honor of this groyser yontef (big holiday) we have senior fellow Grisha Leyfer with a show-and-tell highlighting Yiddish dictionaries big and small from our collection. Happy word searching!

Have you heard the story of Bobe Shlak and the great pumpkin? Written and illustrated by Leib Kvitko and published in 1928, Di bobe shlak un ir kabak (The Bobe Shlak and Her Pumpkin) is the perfect Halloween read. Check it out on our website: yiddishbookcenter.org/collections/yi…

Join us on Sunday, Nov 10, at 2pm for the launch of Ilan Stavans' newest book, Sabor Judío: The Jewish Mexican Cookbook, coauthored with Margaret E. Boyle. Following the conversation there will be a book signing. This event is free to attend; no advance registration is required.