In the Southwest, public libraries are becoming Yiddish hubs
Think of Yiddish today and you might picture Hasidic Brooklyn, Haredi neighborhoods in Israel or scholars working to preserve a language too often falsely written off as “dead” or “dying.” But Texas? Ikh ken es nisht gleybn! (I can’t believe it!) Sebastian Shulman, director of partnerships at the Yiddish Book Center, has spent the past...
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