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n an ongoing program
started in 1986, the Na-
tional Yiddish Book
Center has provided 100,000
Yiddish volumes to 67 major
universities and research
libraries around the world,
including the University of
Michigan in Ann Arbor.
The Book Peddler, the
book center's quarterly
publication, reported that a
gift from a Scarsdale couple
had made it possible for Yale
University's Sterling
Memorial Library to acquire
10,000 out-of-print Yiddish
volumes.
When shipments are com-
pleted in about two years,
the Yale Library will have
"the largest single retro-
spective Yiddish library"
provided through the center,
according to Aaron Lansky,
founder and executive direc-
tor of the book center in
Amherst, Mass.
Lansky told the Jewish
Telegraphic Agency that "40
to 50 years ago, when the
books were still in print,
there were few libraries
anywhere interested in col-
lecting Yiddish books."
But all that has changed,
Lansky said. By acquiring
10,000 books in a single
transaction, Yale University
"is announcing to the world
that Yiddish literature and
Yiddish sources have a
crucial role in modern Jew-
ish scholarship."
The books for Yale are be-
ing chosen from almost a
million volumes rescued by
the book center since 1980,
when Lansky — who recent-
ly won a "genius grant"
from the McArthur Founda-
tion —embarked on what
was initially a one-person
effort to save discarded and
forgotten Yiddish books.
Lansky said the gift from
the Scarsdale couple was
large enough to pay not only
for the books but also for
their being catalogued. Each
shipment to libraries is "pre-
packaged as a comprehen-
sive collection of Yiddish lit-
erature," he said.
Lansky reported that the
center staff was still enter-
ing titles in its data-base and
sending lists to the Yale
Library, where Yale's
Judaica bibliographer, Lin-
da Berman, is making the

Richard Pearl of The Jewish
News staff contributed to this
report.

choices for the Yale Library.
Noting that the Yale
Library has "a good, basic
Yiddish library of 3,000 to
4,000 volumes," Lansky said
the center has shipped about
2,000 of the 10,000 volumes
to date.
He said the Yale acquisi-
tion means that "henceforth,
if you are going to pursue
modern Jewish scholarship,
you have to deal with the
language which the Jews of
Europe used."
The center's basic collec-
tion of 500 books for $5,000
and its comprehensive col-
lection of 1,000 books for
$10,000 are sent fully
catalogued.
Research libraries which
have acquired Yiddish books
include the Library of Con-
gress; the National Library
of Canada; the British Mu-
seum Library in London; the
Royal Library in Sweden;
and the Jewish National and
University Library in
Jerusalem. U of M is a
regular customer of the
Center, ordering books as
needed, according to a
Center spokeswoman.
The 1,000 books in the
comprehensive collection in-
clude reference works,
essential history texts,
ethnography, social theory
and other non-fiction areas,
together with literary an-
thologies and representative
works of the best of Yiddish.
prose, poetry and drama.
The Book Peddler also re-
ported establishment of four
new university library col-
lections: George Washington
University in the nation's
capital; Florida Atlantic
University in Boca Raton;
Melbourne University
Library, described as the na-
tional library of Australia;
and the State University at
Stony Brook, N.Y.
The four are among the
total of 67 university and
research libraries receiving
Yiddish books from the
center. Lansky told JTA that
the center also plans to help
develop a comprehensive col-
lection for the library of the
University of California in
Los Angeles.
The center plans to raise
funds for that collection with
an initial goal of $25,000.
Lansky said the UCLA
library already has an
excellent Yiddish book sec-
tion and that the additional
volumes will help fill "some
crucial gaps" to support
"serious Yiddish research."

Jewish Telegraphic Agency

