Yiddish book center internship program

In the yiddish book center fellowship program, recent college graduates spend a year as fulltime center staff members. Volunteers will assist in leading student groups on visits of the center and will facilitate interactive activities and tours. Jacob kronhill program in yiddish language and culture yiddish winter intensive at monash university melbourne, australia. Internships are open to all rutgers undergraduates. While we have had fellows who were taking a year off from. Charity navigator rating for national yiddish book center. National yiddish book center is a libraries, historical societies and landmark preservation charity located in amherst, ma. The yiddish book center is a nonprofit institution, and its programs are funded by contributions from over 30,000 as of 2005 members, and gifts and grants.

Yiddish book center fellows spend a year as fulltime staff members, learning valuable professional skills and contributing to the centers major projects. The national yiddish book center will provide financial support to each cowl fellow as well as mentorship in yiddish programming, event planning, outreach, and publicity. Program manager, 40th anniversary initiatives at national yiddish book center. The center offers the steiner summer internship program for college students, a tuitionfree sevenweek immersion in yiddish culture as well as a paid fellowship program that brings talented young college graduates who are passionate about yiddish language and culture to spend a year as fulltime book center staff pokrosscurhan family fund prize. The yiddish book center works to rescue yiddish and other modern jewish books and open up their content to the world. The yiddish book centers great jewish books programs introduce participants to the depth and breadth of modern jewish literature. Madeleine mindl cohen is the director of translation and collections initiatives at the yiddish book center. The yiddish book center in amherst, massachusetts is now accepting applications for the 2020 steiner summer yiddish program, running may 31july 17, 2020. Nora feinstein, 2010 participant in the steiner summer yiddish program at the yiddish book center, was interviewed by emma morgenstern on july 23, 2010 at the yiddish book center. Playhouse on park is now accepting applications for 2020 summer internship program.

Yiddish book center fellowship program for college graduates. Internships for college students and recent graduates. Summer yiddish program for college kids seeks applicants. Program costs, location, housing, and transportation. Only one internship may count toward the requirements for the jewish studies major or minor. Mindl has a phd in comparative literature with an emphasis in jewish studies from the university of california, berkeley. Tikkun volunteer and internship program tikkun is a magazine dedicated to healing and transforming the world. An intensive sevenweek program in yiddish language and culture. Now in its fourth decade, the steiner summer yiddish program will run june 3july 20, 2018. In the steiner summer yiddish program, students spend seven weeks immersed in yiddish language and culture. National yiddish book center in amherst, ma librarything. 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. National yiddish book center, cultural institution dedicated to collecting and distributing endangered yiddish books and, through programs and education, opening up their contents to new readers.

The sevenweek steiner summer yiddish program offers students the opportunity to immerse themselves in yiddish language and culture. Goldringwoldenberg institute of southern jewish life isjl summer internship. Emma morgenstern, intern with the yiddish book centers steiner summer internship program, was interviewed by nora feinstein on july 22, 2010. Yiddish is alive and well for new klezkanada director. Since 2010, the yiddish book center s wexler oral history project has recorded more than 500 indepth video interviews that provide a deeper understanding of the jewish experience and the legacy and changing nature of yiddish language and culture. We are expanding the program this year, says ashley karver who works in the membership department. Full information about the cowl jewish leadership program, including application and selection guidelines, will be available during the summer internship program. Intermediate students who are part of the internship program receive free housing. Steiner summer yiddish program yiddish book center. The program is tuitionfree and limited housing subsidies are available for beginner students who demonstrate a financial need. She founded jewishgens yiddish theater and vaudeville research group and has been a member of the national yiddish book center since its year of incorporation in 1980. Feel free to browse our store, but be aware that the shopping cart is disabled. About the steiner summer yiddish program yiddish book center.

This program is a fulltime job, like a paid internship, and not financial support for academic research. The steiner summer internship program is in full swing at the yiddish book center. In the steiner summer yiddish program, undergraduate students, graduate students, and recent graduates ages 1826. Yiddish book center for international fellowship in usa. The program requires that interns take yiddish classes and help organize the collection. Intermediate students have the option to enroll in the introduction to yiddish culture course. Her real first name is actually a yiddish name with her secular first name being the traditional english translation. Thousands of young people have passed through the national yiddish book center internship program, attended klezkamp and klezkanada, played in a college klezmer band or engaged with yiddish. The summer internship program in germany will provide participants with valuable work experience, help improve their german language skills, and. Dreaming of a jewish christmas yiddish book center. The yiddish book center in amherst, massachusetts is accepting applications for the 2018 steiner summer yiddish program, a sevenweek, tuitionfree, intensive language and culture course for college students.

By chance, in 2004, he came across a flyer for a summer internship at the yiddish book center in amherst, mass. Stipends are available to participants in the yiddish book centers internship program. Jeff hayes program manager, 40th anniversary initiatives. Eighteen talented, hardworking and incredibly motivated students are here learning yiddish, studying eastern european culture and history, and pursuing individual research projects on everything from sholem aleichems monologues to the yiddish response to darwinism. Yiddish summer programs, a roundup published in in geveb, a journal of yiddish studies. The yiddish book center in amherst, massachusetts is accepting applicants for the 201819 yiddish book center fellowship program. Additionally, the centers new cowl jewish leadership program will groom college interns to bring back yiddish programming to their home campuses when their summer stints are over. The yiddish book center amherst, ma yeshiva university museum new york, ny. The national yiddish book center was founded in 1980 by macarthur fellow aaron lansky, who continues to lead the organization as its president.

The fellowship offers recent college graduates with intermediate or advanced yiddish skills the opportunity to develop valuable professional experience while working as fulltime members of the centers staff. Sarah abrevaya stein, professor of history and jewish studies at ucla, talks with the shmooze about her new book family papers. Yiddish book scholarships have supported undergraduates, graduates, readers and teachers in their ongoing study of yiddish literature. Yiddishlanguage specialist intern for the yiddish book centers. Yiddish book center fellowship program in usa, 2020. For more information, explore the yiddish book centers wexler oral history project. Intermediate students have the option to enroll in the introduction to yiddish culture course or spend two hours each weekday working as interns on major center projects, such as oral history or collections curation. Jewish heritage museum of monmouth county new jersey jewish historical society of central jersey. A sephardic journey through the twentieth century and the process of w. There, he learned yiddish while sorting through the thousands of yiddish books the centre rescues, before returning to his studies in eastern european jewish history.

The centers internship program has given dozens of students a valuable foundation for notable careers in the fields of jewish studies and education. Students may do more than one internship as long as no two internships are at the same institution. Located in amherst, massachusetts, the center safeguards a collection of 1. The capstone fellows programour summer internship placementprovides students with the opportunity to pursue fulltime, sixweeklong internships at exemplary jewish arts and education organizations around the country and abroad. Dmitri gaskin and anthony mordechai tsvi russell performing at yidstock 2018, yiddish book center. Email or call phoenix wyatt, steiner summer yiddish program coordinator.

Fellows spend a year as fulltime staff members, learning valuable professional skills and contributing to the centers major projects, working closely with colleagues and supervisors. Each year, we invite students from our january term and steiner summer program at the yiddish book center to apply for our cowl jewish leadership program. The yiddish book center also offers an internship program for undergraduates who want to learn and participate in the centers projects. The yiddish book center is a nonprofit organization that works to tell the whole jewish story by rescuing, translating, and disseminating yiddish books and p. National yiddish book center jewish virtual library. Nora grew up in a reform jewish family in baltimore, maryland and participated in reform jewish life. Steiner summer yiddish program, yiddish book center amherst, massachusetts, usa. Yivobard uriel weinreich summer program in yiddish language, literature, and culture new york, new york, usa. As the worlds only comprehensive supplier of yiddish books, the book center helped establish yiddish collections at more than 600 great libraries, including harvard, yale, library of congress, the british library, hebrew university in jerusalem, and national libraries in. Steiner students take yiddish language and culture classes and work on yiddish book center projects. Yiddish book centers fulltext search currently in beta back to search the complete contents of nearly 11,000 books in the yiddish.

The yiddish book center is seeking volunteer docents to provide support to our field trip program staff. National yiddish book center is rated 3 out of 4 stars by charity navigator. Intermediate students are eligible to participate in an internship in exchange for subsidized housing as well as a 1,000 usd stipend for living expenses. Led and curated by top scholars, contemporary writers, and cultural commentators, these programs inspire deep engagement with a range of surprisingand sometimes challengingworks of modern jewish literature.

This donorsponsored fund awards small grants to selected cultural liaisons, and provides mentors and other resources that enable them to design and organize firstrate yiddish and jewish cultural programming on their own college and. The program is designed to train yiddish teachers in communicative language pedagogy, provide them with resources to assist teaching in a variety of settings, and offer ongoing support for pedagogic development. It is one of ten western massachusetts museums constituting the museums10 consortium. Abby howell learned to speak yiddish while she was a student at the university of texas at austin, and continued her study at the national yiddish book centers summer internship program, at yivos intensive weinreich summer program in new york, and at the boston workers circle. Intermediate students are eligible to participate in an internship in exchange for subsidized housing as well as a 1,000 usd stipend. In the steiner summer yiddish program, undergraduate and graduate students ages 1826. Founded in 1980 by aaron lansky, the center was one of the first organizations in america dedicated to the preservation of yiddish literature and culture. The yiddish book center fellowship program offers recent college graduates a yearlong professional experience in yiddish language and jewish cultural work. Register by october 24 for our weekend program on new york jewish photographers with professor deborah dash moore. When he was a 23yearold graduate student, lansky stumbled upon an alarming fact.