RPF Grantee

Yiddish Book Center

  • Project

    Translation Fellowship

  • Program Area

    Arts & Culture

  • Year

    2016

  • Amount

    $150,000

  • Description

    Yiddish books are a window to Jewish life in Eastern Europe before WWII, and yet 98 percent of all Yiddish books remain un-translated and inaccessible to English readers. The Yiddish Book Center is chipping away at that figure with its Translation Fellowship, which tasks a diverse group of scholars with making important Yiddish works available in English for the first time. This renewal grant supports an additional 20 fellows, helping the program get closer to its goal of training 100 translators.

    Photograph courtesy National Yiddish Book Center

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