The National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene
The Drama Desk Award-winning National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene is the longest-consecutively producing Yiddish theatre company in the world (107 years and counting) and the longest-consecutively producing performing arts institution in the US.
The company presents plays, concerts, literary events, and workshops in English and [...]
Location:
Edmond J. Safra Plaza, 36 Battery Place, New York, New York, United States 10280
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Contact Name:
Dominick Balletta
Email:
dballetta@nytf.org
Phone:
212-213-2120
Yiddish Book Center
The Yiddish Book Center is a nonprofit organization working to recover, celebrate, and regenerate Yiddish and modern Jewish literature and culture.
The million books recovered by the Yiddish Book Center represent Jews’ first sustained literary and cultural encounter with the modern world. They are a window on the past thousand years of Jewish history, a precursor of modern Jewish writing [...]
Location:
1021 West Street, Amherst, New York, United States 01002
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Email:
info@yiddishbookcenter.org
Phone:
413-256-4900, ext. 152.
The Workers Circle
The Workers Circle is a nonprofit organization that powers progressive Jewish identity through Jewish cultural engagement, Yiddish language learning, multigenerational education, and social justice activism. For more than a century we have provided this 360-degree approach to building Jewish identity in hopes of creating a better and more beautiful world for all.
Location:
247 West 37th Street, 5th Floor, New York, New York, United States
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Email:
info@circle.org
Phone:
212-889-6800
Center for Jewish History
Home to five distinguished partner organizations. The largest and most comprehensive archive of the modern Jewish experience outside of Israel.
Center for Jewish History and partner collections span five thousand years, with tens of millions of archival documents (in dozens of languages and alphabet systems), more than 500,000 volumes, as well as thousands of artworks, textiles, ritual objects, recordings, films, [...]
Location:
15 West 16th Street, New York, New York, United States 10011
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Email:
inquiries@cjh.org
Katz Center for Advanced Jewish Studies
The Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania is driven by the mission to deepen and broaden the understanding of Jewish history, texts, cultures, ideas, and experiences. The research it supports spans all periods of Jewish history, from distant antiquity through to the present day; it reaches into every part of the globe [...]
Location:
420 Walnut Stree, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States 19106
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Email:
sas-katzcenter@sas.upenn.edu
Phone:
(215) 746-1290
LAJSA – Latin American Jewish Studies
LAJSA serves as a network for scholars who are working on related themes but who are geographically distant from one another. Members maintain contact with one another through the electronic listserv “LAJSA-List,” the News & Announcements on the website, regional and international scholarly conferences, and the online publication Latin American Jewish Studies, which carries critical reviews of new scholarly work, [...]
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Contact Name:
Ariana Huberman
Email:
ahuberma@haverford.edu
In geveb: A Journal of Yiddish Studies
In geveb is an open-access digital forum for the publication of peer-reviewed academic articles, the translation and annotation of Yiddish texts, the exchange of pedagogical materials, and a blog of Yiddish cultural life.
In geveb aims to be a central address for the study of all things Yiddish—the focal point for discussions of Yiddish literature, language, and culture, and
the home [...]
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League for Yiddish
The League for Yiddish, Inc., was founded in 1979 by prominent Yiddish linguist and professor Dr. Mordkhe Schaechter in order to provide organizational support for the modernization, standardization and use of the Yiddish language in all spheres of daily life. With devoted members on six continents, the League for Yiddish is one of the few organizations in today's [...]
Location:
64 Fulton Street, Suite 1101, New York, New York, United States 10038
Email:
info@leagueforyiddish.org
Phone:
212-889-0380
Association for Jewish Studies
The Association for Jewish Studies (AJS) was founded in 1969 by a small group of scholars seeking a forum for exploring methodological and pedagogical issues in the new field of Jewish Studies. Since its founding, the AJS has grown into the largest learned society and professional organization representing Jewish Studies scholars worldwide. As a constituent organization of the American Council of Learned [...]
Location:
15 West 16th Street, New York, New York, United States 10011
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
The Museum’s David M. Rubenstein National Institute for Holocaust Documentation houses an unparalleled repository of Holocaust evidence that documents the fate of victims, survivors, rescuers, liberators, and others. Our comprehensive collection contains millions of documents, artifacts, photos, films, books, and testimonies. Click here to see Yiddish related items.
Location:
100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW, Washington, District of Columbia, United States 20024-2126
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Phone:
202.488.0400