See actions taken by the people who manage and post content. Students and alumnae who studied this major or are working in the industry can provide valuable guidance when considering career options, including internships, jobs, and graduate school. The stated goal of the national yiddish book center is to return old books to a new generation of readers. This is the national yiddish book center company profile. Aaron lansky works to revitalize yiddish culture and make it more accessible and understandable to the postholocaust world. I am mostly interested in the initial reaction after the publication of on the origin of species. All content is posted anonymously by employees working at national yiddish book center. Resident assistant, steiner summer yiddish program.
Abby howell learned to speak yiddish while she was a student at the university of texas at austin, and continued her study at the national yiddish book center s summer internship program, at yivos intensive weinreich summer program in new york, and at the boston workmens circle. The centers internship program has given dozens of students a valuable. The program requires that interns take yiddish classes and help organize the collection. National yiddish book center jewish virtual library. She talks about yiddish literature, finding a yiddish community, arguing in yiddish and the challenges of incorporating yiddish in life. The yiddish book center is a nonprofit organization working to recover, celebrate, and regenerate yi.
We saw store signs in yiddish and visited restaurants and stores where childrens games, clothing, cook books, and music were all sold in yiddish. Elizabeth lerner 05 performed an internship there and jacqui shine 05 served as a center tour guide. In boro park, unlike in the universities, yiddish was not injected in advance for our academic benefit it. In the yiddish book center fellowship program, recent college graduates spend a year as fulltime center staff members. Thousands of young people have passed through the national yiddish book center internship program, attended klezkamp and klezkanada, played in a college klezmer band or engaged with yiddish. In 1973, a group of students helped to organize the nations first college course on. While an intern at the national yiddish book center, i am researching the yiddish response to darwinism. The center s internship program has given dozens of students a valuable foundation for notable careers in the fields of jewish studies. In honor of national poetry month and the yiddish book center s decade of discovery theme for this year, yiddish in america. National yiddish book center, cultural institution dedicated to collecting and distributing endangered yiddish books and, through programs and education, opening up their contents to new readers. The yiddish book center also offers an internship program for undergraduates who want to learn and participate in the center s projects. The center offers the steiner summer internship program for college students, a tuitionfree sevenweek immersion in yiddish culture as well as a paid fellowship program that brings talented young college graduates who are passionate about yiddish language and culture to spend a year as fulltime book center. And hankus netsky, founder of bostons klezmer conservatory band, continued the summer collaboration between klezkanada and the discovery project of the national yiddish book center. The national yiddish book center is a vibrant, nonprofit organization working to rescue yiddish and other modern jewish books and celebrate the culture they contain.
Students study the yiddish language, the jewish culture and history of central and eastern europe and america, pursue a research or translation project, and delve into the yiddish book center s. Salaries posted anonymously by national yiddish book center employees. Yiddish ressources kopjik international daily yiddish. Yiddish book center fellowship program for college graduates. In conjunction with the national yiddish book center, the kaplan foundation has. National yiddish book center receives grant to further its cultural. In the steiner summer yiddish program, students spend seven weeks immersed in yiddish language and culture. Eighteen talented, hardworking and incredibly motivated students are here learning yiddish, studying eastern european culture and history, and pursuing individual research projects on everything from sholem aleichems monologues to the yiddish response to darwinism. Yiddish internship at the national yiddish book center the national yiddish book center, in amherst, massachusetts, is now accepting applications for its summer program. Study and travel opportunities jewish studies ithaca.
National yiddish book center summer program intern and discovery fellow joshua schwartz chants a portion of yosif frydmans badkhones book folk poetry about the jewish longing for zion and since its a long way to israel from golus exile, they might want to bring a badkhn folk poet along to entertain. The yiddish book center national yiddish book center, located on the campus of hampshire college in amherst, massachusetts, united states, is a cultural. This is a whollyfunded internship to study yiddish language, literature, history, and culture, and to a. Its annual translation issue, a digital publication, features newly translated works of yiddish literature. Its amazing to realize that the six weeks of the internship program are over. The yiddish book center s wexler oral history project is a growing collection of indepth video interviews with people of all ages, exploring yiddish cultural topics and issues of modern jewish identity. Jeff hayes program manager, 40th anniversary initiatives. Visitor programs welcomed approximately 10,000 visitors and offered permanent and. The national yiddish book center was founded in 1980 by macarthur fellow aaron lansky, who continues to lead the organization as its president. Sophie spencerzavos culturalcontent intern national.
The project is particularly interested in how yiddish language and culture inform jewish. To attend, please rsvp by september 6 to sarah mae browne at the yiddish book center. Steiner summer yiddish program 2020 hannounce hnet. Cultural encounters, were featuring a podcast with faith jones about her work translating the experimental yiddish poet celia dropkin, a dadaist sound poem about coney island from the late 1930s, and an article about detroits soulful yiddish poet, ezra korman. Diana clarke discusses her path to yiddish studies, involvement with the internship program and cultural influences of the language. Some can still practice on their grandparents, and many more can actually read the 1.
In 1989 the center invited college students to take part in an internship program that provided yiddish language instruction in combination with handson work sorting and shelves incoming yiddish volumes. Intermediate students are eligible to participate in an internship in exchange for subsidized housing as well as a 1,000 usd stipend for living expenses. Catalog books of yiddish literature in translation and audiovideo files from the center s 40year history oversee logistics and coordination for program of grants to public libraries across. National yiddish book center in amherst, ma librarything. The steiner program at the national yiddish book center offers college students a tuitionfree, seven week immersion in yiddish language and culture. To commemorate and honour the achievements of its founder dora wasserman, who passed away in 2003, her two daughters, bryna artistic director at segal centre and ella organized the. Opportunities for indiana university jewish studies students. Steiner summer yiddish program, yiddish book center amherst, massachusetts, usa.
Yiddish summer programs, a roundup published in in geveb, a journal of yiddish studies. The sami rohr library of recorded yiddish books is a collection of yiddish books and short stories read aloud by native speakers, recorded in the 1980s and 90s at the jewish public library of montreal. A free inside look at national yiddish book center salary trends based on 2 salaries wages for 2 jobs at national yiddish book center. The national yiddish book center will provide financial support to each cowl fellow as well as mentorship in yiddish programming, event planning, outreach, and publicity. The steiner summer internship program is in full swing at the yiddish book center. Internships and careers for german and european studies. Educational news national yiddish book center once again, the national yiddish book center announces paid summer internships for undergraduate students. Apply to the program applications for the 2019 program are closed. The yiddish book center is a nonprofit institution, and its programs are. Kirk lange in the mcculloch center can provide more details on international internships funding and details. Facebook is showing information to help you better understand the purpose of a page. Rating for national yiddish book center charity navigator. Lansky is founder and president of the national yiddish book center, an organization that has rescued and restored to active use more than 1.
The popular program grew into the steiner summer internship program and now offers dozens of students an opportunity to study yiddish language and literature in intensive accredited courses and to take part in the ongoing work of the center for eight weeks each year. And some smith students do more than visit the center. Abby howell learned to speak yiddish while she was a student at the university of texas at austin, and continued her study at the national yiddish book center s summer internship program, at yivos intensive weinreich summer program in new york, and at the boston workers circle. Additionally, the center s new cowl jewish leadership program will groom college interns to bring back yiddish programming to their home campuses when their summer stints are over. With the help of a major grant from the national endowment for the humanities, the yiddish book center in amherst, massachusetts, has new. Yiddishlanguage specialist intern for the yiddish book. I work at the national yiddish book center on the wexler oral history project, supporting a growing online archive of indepth personal histories, documenting diverse voices and varied experiences.
National yiddish book center is rated 3 out of 4 stars by charity navigator. Feel free to browse our store, but be aware that the shopping cart is disabled. The popular program grew into the steiner summer internship program and now offers dozens of students an opportunity to study yiddish language and literature in intensive accredited courses and to take part in the ongoing work of the center. Program activities steiner students take yiddish language and culture classes and work on yiddish book center projects. We are expanding the program this year, says ashley karver who works in the membership department.
Borns administrative internship in jewish studies 34. Goldringwoldenberg institute of southern jewish life isjl summer internship. Dmitri gaskin and anthony mordechai tsvi russell performing at yidstock 2018, yiddish book center. The yiddish book center is seeking a residential assistant proficient in yiddish to facilitate a fun and intellectually stimulating yiddishspeaking environment for eighteen college students and assist with the daily operations of an intensive summer program in yiddish language and culture. When he was a 23yearold graduate student, lansky stumbled upon an alarming fact. Located in amherst, massachusetts, the center safeguards a collection of 1. National yiddish book center in amherst, ma librarything local. The sevenweek program offers an unusual combination of academic learning and handson work experience, providing college students with an introduction to yiddish language, literature and culture.
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