Catch editors Ilan Stavans and Josh Lambert on tour for "How Yiddish Changed America"

This spring, join Ilan Stavans and Josh Lambert at events across the country as they celebrate the release of their monumental new anthology. As the Yiddish Book Center celebrates its fortieth anniversary this year, How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish mines its rich archives of newspapers, literature, poetry, and more to celebrate the astonishing diversity of Yiddish voices across the hemisphere.

Jan 22, 2020 — Jewish Community Library (San Francisco, CA)

Feb 1, 2020 — A Night of Philosophy and Ideas at the Brooklyn Public Library (Brooklyn, NY)

Feb 11, 2020 — Ilan Stavans and Corey Flintoff in Conversation at Politics & Prose @ The Wharf (Washington, DC)

Mar 1, 2020 — Ilan Stavans and Josh Lambert at the Yiddish Book Center (Amherst, MA)

Mar 18, 2020 — Josh Lambert and Ilan Stavans at the Mandell JCC (Hartford, CT) — POSTPONED

Apr 1, 2020 — Ilan Stavans Hosts Zol Zayn: Yiddish Poetry into Song at Symphony Space (New York, NY) — POSTPONED

May 6, 2020 — Betsy Hotel (Miami, FL) — POSTPONED

May 31, 2020 — Vilna Shul (Boston, MA) — POSTPONED

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ABOUT THE EDITORS

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Ilan Stavans is the Publisher of Restless Books and the Lewis-Sebring Professor of Humanities, Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College. His books include On Borrowed Words, Spanglish, Dictionary Days, The Disappearance, and A Critic’s Journey. He has edited The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature, the three-volume set Isaac Bashevis Singer: Collected Stories, The Poetry of Pablo Neruda, among dozens of other volumes. He is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, Chile’s Presidential Medal, the International Latino Book Award, and the Jewish Book Award. Stavans’s work, translated into twenty languages, has been adapted to the stage and screen. A cofounder of the Great Books Summer Program at Amherst, Stanford, Chicago, Oxford, and Dublin, he is the host of the NPR podcast "In Contrast.”

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Josh Lambert is the academic director of the Yiddish Book Center and visiting assistant professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He’s the author of American Jewish Fiction: A JPS Guide (2009) and Unclean Lips: Obscenity, Jews, and American Culture (2014), which received a Jordan Schnitzer Book Award from the Association of Jewish Studies and a Canadian Jewish Book Award. His reviews and essays have been published by the New York Times Book Review, the Los Angeles Times, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Haaretz, Tablet, the Forward, New England Public Radio, and many other publications.