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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. A story of spiritual resistance david fishmans the book smugglers, which won the 2017 national jewish book awards holocaust category, tells the nearly unbelievable story of ghetto inmates who rescued thousands of rare. A series of books written in yiddish by early childhood experts particularly for yiddish speaking preschool children will encourage them to speak the language perfectly. The book arrived in good time and in the advertised condition. The yiddish book centers repository if you cant make it here in person, contact david mazower, the centers bibliographer, at email protected or 42564900, ext.
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