The Center's new "Yiddish academy" has a theater, a Kosher kitchen, a student center, a distance learning studio, a recording studio and classrooms. This fall, the facility will host classes on Yiddish writing, film, cooking and music. And in September, the book center will join with the University of Massachusetts Amherst to teach an online Yiddish class. Last month, the Knesset celebrated the first Yiddish Culture Day Lawmakers were given Yiddish handbooks and treated to a, Yiddish concert. They discussed how to preserve the language on the day marking the 150th birthday of Sholem Aleichem, the Russian author whose Yiddish stories were the inspiration for the musical "Fiddler on the Roof." The Knesset also has a lobby for the preservation of Yiddish culture and language. The National Yiddish Book Center's collection is available online at www.archive.org/details/nationalyiddishbookcenter. In July, the Center will launch the Paper Bridge Summer Arts Festival, a series of events that includes courses on memoir-writing and translating Yiddish; discussions on Yiddish drama; concerts and Yiddish films....

Yiddish library moves into $6M facility