Yiddish Book Center
The Art of 20th Century Yiddish Poster Design: Theater/Politics/Lectures
Yiddish Book Center 1021 West St, Amherst, MA, United StatesIf you were to take a walk through the crowded Jewish neighborhoods of New York, Warsaw, Buenos Aires, and other centers of Yiddish life in the early twentieth century, you […]
Masked Tours at the Yiddish Book Center
Yiddish Book Center 1021 West St, Amherst, MA, United StatesThe Yiddish Book Center is now offering masked tours of Yiddish: A Global Culture, our permanent exhibition. Visitors can experience the incredible story of Yiddish on this 45-minute tour. Masked tours are scheduled for 11:00 a.m. on: Monday, May 19 Monday, June 30 Monday, July 28 The tour guide as well as all guests on […]
Pride Tours at the Yiddish Book Center
Yiddish Book Center 1021 West St, Amherst, MA, United StatesCelebrate Pride Month at the Yiddish Book Center! Throughout the month of June, we’re offering special tours of our permanent exhibition, Yiddish: A Global Culture, that center the queer past […]
Pride Tours at the Yiddish Book Center
Yiddish Book Center 1021 West St, Amherst, MA, United StatesCelebrate Pride Month at the Yiddish Book Center! Throughout the month of June, we’re offering special tours of our permanent exhibition, Yiddish: A Global Culture, that center the queer past and present of Yiddish. Join us to learn about the unexpected connections between language and gender, the history of queerness in Yiddish mass culture, and […]
Pride Tours at the Yiddish Book Center
Yiddish Book Center 1021 West St, Amherst, MA, United StatesCelebrate Pride Month at the Yiddish Book Center! Throughout the month of June, we’re offering special tours of our permanent exhibition, Yiddish: A Global Culture, that center the queer past and present of Yiddish. Join us to learn about the unexpected connections between language and gender, the history of queerness in Yiddish mass culture, and […]
The Klezmatics
Yiddish Book Center 1021 West St, Amherst, MA, United StatesThe Klezmatics, the internationally acclaimed, Grammy Award-winning modern klezmer outfit, was founded in New York City in 1986 and has been performing around the world since then. Blending instrumental and vocal virtuosity and experimentation with theatricality firmly rooted in klezmer and Yiddish tradition, The Klezmatics brought the revival of klezmer into the rock era, blazing […]
Eleanor Reissa
Yiddish Book Center 1021 West St, Amherst, MA, United StatesSinger/storyteller Eleanor Reissa returns to Yidstock with a new program of Yiddish gems. Her music reflects the Eastern European homeland of her family as well as her own American experiences. […]
Eleanor Reissa
Yiddish Book Center 1021 West St, Amherst, MA, United StatesSinger/storyteller Eleanor Reissa returns to Yidstock with a new program of Yiddish gems. Her music reflects the Eastern European homeland of her family as well as her own American experiences. […]
Eleanor Reissa
Yiddish Book Center 1021 West St, Amherst, MA, United StatesSinger/storyteller Eleanor Reissa returns to Yidstock with a new program of Yiddish gems. Her music reflects the Eastern European homeland of her family as well as her own American experiences. […]
ReynHartsik: Yoshie Fruchter and R. Deborah Sacks Mintz
Yiddish Book Center 1021 West St, Amherst, MA, United StatesReynHartsik (heartfelt, sincerely), a duo project from musicians Yoshie Fruchter and Rabbi Deborah Sacks Mintz, explores Yiddish poetry, loshen koydesh, prayer, and nigun in an intimate acoustic folk setting. Using […]
Michael Winograd Plays Tanz!
Yiddish Book Center 1021 West St, Amherst, MA, United StatesIn 1956, the album TANZ! was released on Period Records, a subsidiary of Columbia Records that distributed folk and international music. The album was the vision of jazz and klezmer virtuoso clarinetist Sam Musiker, featuring himself and his father-in-law, the great klezmer clarinetist Dave Tarras. Musically, the album was a triumph. But commercially it saw […]
Michael Winograd Plays Tanz!
Yiddish Book Center 1021 West St, Amherst, MA, United StatesIn 1956, the album TANZ! was released on Period Records, a subsidiary of Columbia Records that distributed folk and international music. The album was the vision of jazz and klezmer virtuoso clarinetist Sam Musiker, featuring himself and his father-in-law, the great klezmer clarinetist Dave Tarras. Musically, the album was a triumph. But commercially it saw […]
