{"id":1462,"date":"2020-03-20T21:22:24","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T21:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/?p=1462"},"modified":"2024-03-30T08:55:11","modified_gmt":"2024-03-30T08:55:11","slug":"the-yiddish-book-center-in-amherst-massachusetts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/the-yiddish-book-center-in-amherst-massachusetts\/","title":{"rendered":"The Yiddish Book Center &#8211; Amherst, Massachusetts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yiddishbookcenter.org\/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yiddish Book Center<\/a> which lies four hours north of New York City in Amherst, Massachusetts, adjacent to Hampshire College. It&#8217;s really great and you should visit. It&#8217;s an archives, museum, and cultural center housed in a gorgeous new building recalling a rural eastern European village. A big draw for me was <em>Shtetl in the Sun: South Beach, Miami 1977-1980<\/em>, an exhibition of photographs of Jewish retirees.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1462 gallery-columns-4 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a title=\"01\"  href='https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/01.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"82\" src=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/01-150x82.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/01-150x82.jpg 150w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/01-500x274.jpg 500w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/01-768x420.jpg 768w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/01.jpg 808w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a title=\"02s\"  href='https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/02s.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" src=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/02s-150x113.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/02s-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/02s-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/02s-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/02s.jpg 880w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a title=\"05s\"  href='https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/05s.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" src=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/05s-150x113.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/05s-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/05s-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/05s-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/05s.jpg 880w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1467'>\n\t\t\t\tSome of the archiving is done right out in the open and you can walk right up to the desks!\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a title=\"03s\"  href='https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/03s.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" src=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/03s-150x113.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/03s-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/03s-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/03s-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/03s.jpg 880w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a title=\"999 shtetel 03s\"  href='https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/999-shtetel-03s.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" src=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/999-shtetel-03s-150x113.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/999-shtetel-03s-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/999-shtetel-03s-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/999-shtetel-03s-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/999-shtetel-03s.jpg 880w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a title=\"999 shtetel 01s\"  href='https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/999-shtetel-01s.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" src=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/999-shtetel-01s-150x113.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/999-shtetel-01s-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/999-shtetel-01s-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/999-shtetel-01s-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/999-shtetel-01s.jpg 880w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a title=\"999 shtetel 09s\"  href='https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/999-shtetel-09s.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/999-shtetel-09s-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/999-shtetel-09s-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/999-shtetel-09s-500x500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/999-shtetel-09s-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/999-shtetel-09s-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/999-shtetel-09s.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a title=\"999 shtetel 06s\"  href='https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/999-shtetel-06s.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" src=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/999-shtetel-06s-150x113.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/999-shtetel-06s-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/999-shtetel-06s-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/999-shtetel-06s-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/999-shtetel-06s.jpg 880w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Everything is really well done and worth the visit, which, by the way, I can&#8217;t say for the more famous Eric Carle Museum (of <em>Hungry Hungry Caterpillar<\/em> fame) which is just down the street and was okay but underwhelming. Most of the Yiddish Center&#8217;s many thousands of books are available online for free, along with vast audio and video collections. They even sell old Yiddish books and sheet music when they have too many copies of a title.<\/p>\n<p>Highlights included a little exhibit on Catskills resorts and an information panel on how they had rescued a thousand books from African-Yiddish publishers that had belonged to a members of Jewish community, now mostly dispersed, in Zimbabwe (then Rhodesia) in the mid-twentieth century.<\/p>\n<p>The center began in 1980 as a simple project to collect unwanted Yiddish books, by a graduate student working on his own and with no institutional backing to speak of. He was soon inundated by thousands of donations from around the world, the project mushroomed, and in 1989 he received a MacArthur Fellowship (the &#8220;genius grant&#8221;*). In 1997 the center got its first dedicated building and along the way Steven Spielberg became a major donor.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-2' class='gallery galleryid-1462 gallery-columns-4 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a title=\"04s\"  href='https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/04s.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" src=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/04s-150x113.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-2-1466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/04s-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/04s-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/04s-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/04s.jpg 880w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-2-1466'>\n\t\t\t\tThis was the world&#8217;s last working Yiddish typsetting machine with &#8220;movable&#8221; type (non-computerized, where each letter was on a separate little block of metal) and was still in use until the mid-1990s at the Jewish Daily Forward newspaper in New York.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a title=\"06s\"  href='https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/06s.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" src=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/06s-150x113.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-2-1468\" srcset=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/06s-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/06s-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/06s-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/06s.jpg 880w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-2-1468'>\n\t\t\t\tDuplicate copies of Yiddish sheet music that you can buy for $10 each\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a title=\"07s\"  href='https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/07s.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"113\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/07s-113x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-2-1469\" srcset=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/07s-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/07s-500x667.jpg 500w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/07s.jpg 660w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-2-1469'>\n\t\t\t\tTheater posters\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a title=\"08s\"  href='https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/08s.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"113\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/08s-113x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-2-1470\" srcset=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/08s-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/08s-500x667.jpg 500w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/08s.jpg 660w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-2-1470'>\n\t\t\t\tMenu and activities calendar from an exhibit on Catskills resorts in the 50s-70s. I wish I had taken more pictures because there&#8217;s nothing about the exhibit online.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a title=\"09s\"  href='https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/09s.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"113\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/09s-113x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/09s-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/09s-500x667.jpg 500w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/09s.jpg 660w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a title=\"10\"  href='https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/10.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"137\" src=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/10-150x137.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-2-1473\" srcset=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/10-150x137.jpg 150w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/10.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-2-1473'>\n\t\t\t\tShirt from new Yiddish music festival recalling the original Woodstock poster\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a title=\"11\"  href='https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/11.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/11-100x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-2-1472\" srcset=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/11-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/11.jpg 485w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-2-1472'>\n\t\t\t\tOriginal 1969 poster for Woodstock, which is about 2 hours away in central New York, but the whole region shares a widespread counterculture orientation that is still very strong\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-3' class='gallery galleryid-1462 gallery-columns-4 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a title=\"999 shtetel 07s\"  href='https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/999-shtetel-07s.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" src=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/999-shtetel-07s-150x113.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/999-shtetel-07s-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/999-shtetel-07s-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/999-shtetel-07s-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/999-shtetel-07s.jpg 880w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a title=\"999 shtetel 02s\"  href='https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/999-shtetel-02s.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" src=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/999-shtetel-02s-150x113.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/999-shtetel-02s-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/999-shtetel-02s-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/999-shtetel-02s-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/999-shtetel-02s.jpg 880w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a title=\"999 shtetel 05s\"  href='https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/999-shtetel-05s.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"113\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/999-shtetel-05s-113x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/999-shtetel-05s-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/999-shtetel-05s-500x667.jpg 500w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/999-shtetel-05s.jpg 660w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a title=\"999 shtetel 04s\"  href='https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/999-shtetel-04s.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" src=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/999-shtetel-04s-150x113.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/999-shtetel-04s-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/999-shtetel-04s-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/999-shtetel-04s-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/999-shtetel-04s.jpg 880w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a title=\"999 shtetel 08s\"  href='https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/999-shtetel-08s.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" src=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/999-shtetel-08s-150x113.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/999-shtetel-08s-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/999-shtetel-08s-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/999-shtetel-08s-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/999-shtetel-08s.jpg 880w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<ul>\n<li>The MacArthur grant is the most illustrious in the U.S. and is awarded to roughly 25 individuals each year (not organizations) who each receive $600,000 through a secret selection process that does not accept applications and is based on potential rather than past achievement, and where the recipients reportedly have no idea they are candidates until they are notified of winning.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the Yiddish Book Center which lies four hours north of New York City in Amherst, Massachusetts, adjacent to Hampshire College. It&#8217;s really great and you should visit. It&#8217;s an archives, museum, and cultural center housed in a gorgeous new building recalling a rural eastern European village. A big draw for me was Shtetl &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/the-yiddish-book-center-in-amherst-massachusetts\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Yiddish Book Center &#8211; Amherst, Massachusetts&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,22,10],"tags":[80],"class_list":["post-1462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-museums","category-new-england","category-travel","tag-jewish-history-and-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1462"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3601,"href":"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1462\/revisions\/3601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}