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Time to Build Again: An Interview with Aaron Lansky
(1.4 MB) The Book Center’s optimistic founder and president talks with Terry Y. Allen about changing the face of Jewish education. You'll find an HTML version of this interview at yiddishbookcenter.org/timetobuild.

Yiddish On Israeli Streets by Benjamin Weiner
(662 MB)
Are the language wars over? From Israel come fresh offerings in mama-loshn.

The Passing of Dr. Schaechter by Julian Levinson
A legendary linguist and teacher held contemporary Yiddish to the highest standards.

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When All is Said and Done (Nokh alemen) by David Bergelson, translated by Joseph Sherman
(264 MB)
Strong-willed Mirl Hurvitz was the first woman in Yiddish literature to act in a thoroughly modern manner.

  DEPARTMENTS  

• Calendar of Events
• From the Editor
• A Bintl Brief: Letters from our friends
• Let’s Learn Yiddish by Itzik Gottesman
• Baym Tsenter: News from the National Yiddish Book Center
• Outwitting History The 25th Anniversary Campaign