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Yiddish Book Center
The Yiddish Book Center (National Yiddish Book Center), located on the campus of Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States, is a cultural institution dedicated to the preservation of books in the Yiddish language as well as the culture and history those books represent. It is one of ten western Massachusetts museums constituting the Museums10 consortium.
==History==
The Yiddish Book Center was founded in 1980 by Aaron Lansky, then a twenty-four-year-old graduate student of Yiddish literature (and now the Center's president). In the course of his studies, Lansky realized that untold numbers of irreplaceable Yiddish books were being discarded by American-born Jews unable to read the language of their Yiddish-speaking parents and grandparents. He organized a nationwide network of ''zamlers'' (volunteer book collectors) and launched a campaign to save the world’s remaining Yiddish books. Lansky recounts the origins of the Center in his 2004 memoir ''Outwitting History''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Outwitting History - Algonquin Books - Books For A Well-Read Life )〕
At the time Lansky began his work, scholars estimated there were 70,000 Yiddish books still extant and recoverable. Since then, the Yiddish Book Center has gone on to recover more than a million volumes, and it continues to receive thousands of new books each year from around the world.
In 1997, the Yiddish Book Center moved to its current site in Amherst, Massachusetts, a 49,000-square-foot, architecturally distinct complex that echoes the rooflines of an East European ''shtetl'' (Jewish town). The Center is home to permanent and traveling exhibits, a Yiddish book repository, educational programs, and the annual Yidstock: The Festival of New Yiddish Music.
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