This fall, Susan Bronson takes the reins at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, succeeding the institution's founder Aaron Lansky. The BJV spoke to Bronson about her new role and plans on continuing to grow the Center
On Thursday, November 13 at 7 p.m., we welcome photographer David Kaufman, The Posthumous Landscape: Remnants of Jewish Life in Eastern Europe, a photographic tribute that highlights the stories behind the remnants of Jewish communal in post-war Poland, western Ukraine, Lithuania, and Latvia.
Peter Wolf, formerly lead singer of The J. Geils Band, has written on of the most entertaining celebrity biographies out there, a chronicle of his life before and after achieving rock superstardom. For a lucky guy, he can actually be quite unlucky - "Waiting On the Moon" is a hugely…
Prof. Michael Hoberman's acclaimed new book "Imagining Early American Jews" considers the Jewish presence in colonial America, long before the migrations of the 19th and 20th centuries brought in large numbers of Jews from eastern and central Europe. Who were these Jews and what is their…
