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This undated photo shows Hampshire College campus in autumn, in Amherst, Massachusetts. (John Greim/LightRocket via Getty Images)
April 15, 2026, 8:02 am
US college that pioneered Holocaust studies set to close
Hampshire College cites declining enrollment, mounting debt as reasons it will shutter at the end of 2026 after 61 years; closure will not affect nearby Yiddish Book Center
By Andrew Lapin
Aaron Lansky speaks at a Yiddish Book Center gala, May 4, 2025. (Susan Magnano/Magnanimous Pictures via JTA)
June 11, 2025, 3:36 am
Aaron Lansky built a home for 1.5 million Yiddish books. Now he’s handing over the keys
While under no illusions that the 1,000-year-old language will be revived outside the Haredi community, the outgoing Yiddish Book Center founder sees it offering new windows into Jewish culture
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Postwar Yiddish writer Chava Rosenfarb. (Courtesy National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene)
April 19, 2021, 3:19 am
NY Yiddish theater festival spotlights previously unheralded women writers
The National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene kicks off a run dedicated to female playwrights with renowned Chava Rosenfarb’s ‘The Bird of the Ghetto,’ running April 19-22
By Jordan Hoffman
Clockwise, from right: 'Honey on the Page' by Miriam Udel (courtesy); 'Labzik: Stories of a Clever Pup,' by Khaver Paver (NYU Press/ via New York Jewish Week); author Miriam Udel (Shulamit Seidler-Feller/via New York Jewish Week); background: Yiddish 'King Lear' poster (flickr/CC-SA-2.0/ Rachel-Esther)
November 2, 2020, 4:23 am
New collection of Yiddish kids’ stories comes out from under shadow of Holocaust
In ‘Honey on the Page,’ Atlanta scholar Miriam Udel uncovers in the YIVO archives 50 stories and poems for a young audience that had largely disappeared by the end of World War II
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Jacob Dinezon's dramatic Yiddish romance novel 'The Dark Young Man' was a surprise success in 1877. (Courtesy of the Jewish Storyteller Press/via JTA)
April 8, 2019, 6:02 am
A forgotten hit 1877 Yiddish romance novel has just been translated to English
Yankev Dinezon’s ‘The Dark Young Man’ sold 200,000 copies, catapulted him to fame, and made him a mentor to the top writers of his day. Then he fell into obscurity — until now
By Penny Schwartz
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