Yiddish Book Center

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Yiddish Book Center

1021 West Street
Amherst, MA 01002 Get Directions

(413) 256.4900

www.yiddishbookcenter.org/

The world’s first Yiddish museum, the Yiddish Book Center is home to permanent and visiting exhibits; two performance halls with a year-round schedule of public and educational programs; the annual Yidstock: The Festival of New Yiddish Music; an English-language bookstore; and a million Yiddish books. The Yiddish Book Center is a non-profit organization working to tell the whole Jewish story by rescuing, translating, and disseminating Yiddish books and presenting innovative educational programs that broaden understanding of modern Jewish identity.

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In the Yiddish Book Center’s Museum Store our shelves are stocked with an interesting and surprising mix of contemporary Jewish fiction, cookbooks, children’s books, gifts, and an expanding list of works in translation. We invite you to browse and enjoy, and as always, let us know if you have any questions or suggestions.

The Yiddish Book Center is located on the grounds of “Hampshire College, Amherst, MA.” Once you arrive on campus, follow signs to the Yiddish Book Center. The Center’s museum and Visitors Center is open Sunday to Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Closed Jewish and legal holidays.

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