Kvel; Newsletter of Yiddish Book Center, Fall 2016
Amherest, MA: Yiddish Book Center, 2016. Presumed first edition/first printing thus. Wraps. 20 pages. The Yiddish Book Center was founded in 1980 by Aaron Lansky, then a twenty-four-year-old graduate student of Yiddish literature (and now the Center's president). This is mostly in English but has some Yiddish phrases and terms. In the course of his studies, Lansky realized that untold numbers of irreplaceable Yiddish books—the primary, tangible legacy of a thousand years of Jewish life in Eastern Europe—were being discarded by American-born Jews unable to read the language of their Yiddish-speaking parents and grandparents. So he organized a nationwide network of zamlers (volunteer book collectors) and launched a concerted campaign to save the world’s remaining Yiddish books before it was too late. More