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Yiddish Theatres & Festivals
Information on Yiddish theater, music, and cultural performances held around the world.
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National Yiddish Book Center
Located in Amherst, Massachusetts, the National Yiddish Book Center houses one of the world's largest collections of Yiddish books, offers books for sale, and runs a variety of programs, including summer internships for college students.
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YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
This major center for studying Yiddish culture, located in New York City, houses a vast library and archives and offers a variety of programs, in conjunction with New York University.
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KlezKamp
Living Traditions runs this annual Yiddish folk arts program, which offers workshops in performing klezmer music, Yiddish folksong, Yiddish language, literature, and folklore, among other topics.
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Forward Association
Publisher of The Forward, a weekly Jewish newspaper with editions in Yiddish, English, and Russian.
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Folksbiene
America's longest-running Yiddish theater company presents fully staged productions (with super-titles in English) and readings of Yiddish plays annually in New York City.
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Workmen's Circle
This secular Yiddish organization, based in New York City with branches across North America, runs a variety of Yiddish public programs, including concerts, summer camp programs, and classes in Yiddish language.
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Yugntruf Youth for Yiddish
This New York-based organization sponsors a wide range of activities conducted in Yiddish, including Yidishvokh, a week-long retreat.
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Der Bay
Based in San Francisco, this newsletter contains information about Yiddish clubs and other Yiddish cultural activities around the world, plus links to an array of Yiddish sites.
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National Center for Jewish Film
Based at Brandeis University, this organization restores, rents, and sells a variety of films, including classic works of Yiddish cinema.
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Yiddish Radio Project
Listen to and learn about American Yiddish radio broadcasting during the middle decades of the 20th century.
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Project Onkelos
Hear classic works of Yiddish literature being read aloud.
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Vilnius Summer Program in Yiddish
Offers summer courses for college credit in Yiddish language, literature and culture in Vilnius, Lithuania, centuries-old center of Yiddish culture.
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EYDES (Evidence of Yiddish Documented in European Sources)
Listen to recordings of Yiddish interviews with native speakers from across Eastern Europe collected for the Language and Culture Atlas of Ashkenazic Jewry.
