The Continuing Story of the Yiddish Language: The Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts
The focus of my article is a unique place, the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts, which connects Yiddish culture with the American one, the experience of the Holocaust with the descendants of the survivors, and a modern idea of Jewishness with the context of American postmodernity.Created in the 1980s, in the mind of a young and read mo