Yiddish: A Global Culture: Exhibition Catalog

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Yiddish: A Global Culture at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, MA is the first ever museum to showcase the extraordinary vibrancy and breadth of modern Yiddish culture- its literature, theater, art, music, journalism, politics- from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. This landmark exhibition catalog offers a panoramic view of Yiddish: A Global Culture to the general reader, placing the transnational story of Yiddish within broader world history. The 340 full-color pages include an eight-page gatefold of " Yiddishland," the exhibition' s 60-foot mural, along with hundreds of stunning reproductions of artworks, rare artifacts, and other key exhibits. With illuminating introductory essays and a timeline highlighting the iconic figures, breakout creative masterpieces, and controversies of the Yiddish world, this volume brings to dramatic life the significance of one remarkable civilization and its ongoing legacy.

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David Mazower is the research bibliographer and editorial director at the Yiddish Book Center and chief curator and writer of the Center' s permanent exhibition, Yiddish: A Global Culture. He oversees the Center' s core collections and co-edits its magazine, Pakn Treger. Author of Yiddish Theatre in London, he is a founder and regular writer for the Digital Yiddish Theatre Project and has published widely on Yiddish popular and print culture, British Jewish history, Jewish art, and the work of his great-grandfather, Yiddish writer Sholem Asch.

David G. Roskies was raised in a Yiddish-speaking home in Montreal, Canada, where he and his siblings attended a Yiddish-Hebrew secular school. At sixteen, he cofounded Yugntruf: Youth for Yiddish. He received his academic training in Yiddish and Judaic studies at Brandeis University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Roskies is Emeritus Professor of Yiddish Literature and Culture at the Jewish Theological Seminary. In 1981 (with the late Alan Mintz), he cofounded Prooftexts: A Journal of Jewish Literary History and served for eighteen years as editor-in-chief of the New Yiddish Library.