A collection of documents described as a treasure trove of Jewish music has been acquired by the New York Public Library, after being hidden in a cantor’s basement in Yonkers for 40 years. Sheet music ...

(JTA) — For decades after World War II, a famed Jewish house of study in Poland was consigned to oblivion. The Nazis set fire to thousands of books stored at the Chachmei Lublin Yeshiva in 1939, the ...

Aaron Lansky spent a lifetime building the Yiddish Book Center, one of the country’s leading Jewish cultural institutions. He’s ready to hand over the reins. “I’m one of the luckiest people in the ...

SPOKANE, Wash. — The Spokane Public Library has been selected as one of 40 libraries in the nation to participate in the Yiddish Book Center's public library program on the theme, "Between Two Worlds: ...

Tucked away among the sacred texts and Torah scrolls at my synagogue is something unusual: a Holocaust library. That synagogue is Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun (KJ), a large Modern Orthodox shul on ...

(New York Jewish Week) A collection of documents described as a treasure trove of Jewish music has been acquired by the New York Public Library, after being hidden in a cantor’s basement in Yonkers ...

Steven Spielberg had already donated money to the Yiddish Book Center when he asked if the center’s founder, Aaron Lansky, might fly out to Los Angeles and drop by his office. The filmmaker doesn’t ...

During the summer, Derek Dolby, Library Museum and Press Coordinator at the University of Delaware, worked to redesign and improve the Jewish Studies Research Guide available through the University of ...

WASHINGTON — A 19th-century copy of the U.S. Constitution in Yiddish and Hebrew. A 15th-century Hebrew book from Italy open to a page of passages that had been censored by the Catholic Church during ...