Mission

The National Yiddish Book Center works to rescue Yiddish and other modern Jewish books and celebrates the culture they contain. Supported by 30,000 members, we are now the largest and fastest-growing Jewish cultural organization in America. When the Center began in 1980, scholars estimated there were 70,000 Yiddish books extant and recoverable. The Center recovered that number in six months and has gone on to recover 1.5 million volumes, with hundreds of additional books continuing to arrive each week. Our goal is to return old books to a new generation of readers.