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Friday, January 4, 1985
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Mail-order Yiddish makes debut
Amherst, Mass. (JTA) — A 72-
page catalogue of new, used and
out-of-print Yiddish books has
been issued by the National Yid-
dish Press Center, which de-
scribed it as the largest single list-
ing of Yiddish books now avail-
able.
Aaron Lansky, who started col-
lecting Yiddish books out of con-
cern for the irreplaceable vol-
umes, began his effort more than
four years ago, when he was 24.
He is now executive director of the
center.
Lansky said the latest
catalogue lists more than 800 ti-
tles of Yiddish prose, poetry and
drama. He expressed the hope
that the catlogue would bring in-
formation on long-lost "treaures"
of Yiddish literature to new
readers, students, scholars and
libraries in more than 20 coun-
tries.
He reported that in June of
1980, a small group ofJewish stu-
dents founded the book center as a
non-profit organization for the
preservation and promotion of
Yiddish culture. Several appeals
have been issued for discarded
and unwanted books. Collection
drives were organized in many
local Jewish communities.
Thousands of forgotten volumes
were retrieved from cellars, at-
tics, abandoned buildings, gar-
bage dumps and demolition sites.
Four years since the start of the
novel rescue operation, the re-
scued books total more than
300,000 with 1,000 more books
arriving weekly, he said.
Lansky said that until recently,
the book center has concentrated
its "limited resources" on the "ur-
gent work " of collection, locating
priceless volumes which would
otherwise have been lost or
carelessly destroyed. Now, he
said, for the first time, the book
center is beginning to focus on
processing and distribution, as
the center's staff sorts and
catalogues thousands of duplicate
volumes so they can be restored to
active use.
He said Yiddish literature re-
presents one of the "most creative
periods in the whole ofJewish his-
tory. These old books are a trea-
sure of the Jewish people. It is
time to match them with new
readers and let them live again."
The background for this re-
trieval effort is that the demand
for Yiddish- books has "incrased
dramatically in recent years." as
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