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Yiddish Book Center

Aaron Lansky speaks at the Yiddish Book Center gala, May 4, 2025. (Susan Magnano/Magnanimous Pictures)
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He built a home for 1.5 million Yiddish books. Now he’s walking away. 

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(JTA) — Steven Spielberg had already donated money to the Yiddish Book Center when he asked if the center’s founder, Aaron Lansky, might fly out to Los Angeles and drop […]

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Alix Wall by Alix Wall April 11, 2023April 12, 2023
Iconic Yiddish author Sholem Aleichem, 1907
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