The National Yiddish Book Center in the United States of America is a cultural institution dedicated to the preservation of books and documents in the Yiddish language. Its headquarters is in Amherst, Massachusetts, adjacent to the campus of Hampshire College. The Center's extensive Yiddish library consists of 1.5 million donated volumes. Its Steven Spielberg Digital Yiddish Library has digitized the entire collection, making reprints of every title available for purchase. The Center also publishes Pakn Treger, an English-language magazine and offers a prestigious summer internship program for college students interested in learning Yiddish. Look up book in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... For the R.E.M. album, see: Document (album) A document is a writing that contains information. ... Yiddish (Yid. ... Amherst is a town located in Hampshire County, Massachusetts. ... Hampshire College is an experimenting private liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts. ... Modern-style library In its traditional sense, a library is a collection of books and periodicals. ...
It is a non-profit institution, and its cultural programs are funded by memberships and grants.
The Center was the first organization dedicated to the preservation of Yiddish language and culture; all the major Jewish organizations initially refused to fund or aid it, claiming that Yiddish was a dead language, before the Center's great success provided evidence to the contrary. An extinct language is a language which is no longer natively spoken: it is estimated that one natural human language dies every two weeks. ...
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