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Wendy Westgate, February 19, 2020
In the spring of 2020, Los Angeles Public Library will host a series of five book discussion programs focusing on the immigrant experience.
Wendy Westgate, January 31, 2020
Miri Koral is the Founding Director of the California Institute for Yiddish Culture and Language and a native speaker of Yiddish. She will be facilitating the book discussions for the Yiddish Book Center's "Coming to America" Reading Groups for Public Libraries, starting in February.
David Turshyan, July 21, 2014
When in the second half of the last century Isaac Bashevich Singer was awarded a Noble Prize for Literature, he raised an interesting question: “People ask me often, ‘Why do you write in a dying language?’” And he tried to explain: “There is a quiet humor in Yiddish and a gratitude for every day of life… e