The Vegan Dessert Traveler's Guide to The National Yiddish Book Center

As Miller alluded to in the previous post, we went to the National Yiddish Book Center, on the campus of Hampshire College, this afternoon. Here are some photos I took while at the center:
















The entrance to the center, which is supposed to resemble a Russian shtetel.

A typewriter that was once used to churn out Yiddish books. (Make sure to click on the photos so you can atcually see what's on the keys.)

A massive linotype used to print a Yiddish journal all the way up to 1991. Line by line, it would produce metal imprints, and then hand workers would have to put the full pages together. Miller and I tried to figure out how it worked but failed--it is a pretty complicated machine.

10 percent of the center's total book collection is stored at the center itself. We were able to browse through the shelves, though not being able to read Yiddish did some what take away from the overall experience.




The center also had a large collection of Yiddish sheet music. We could actually read the notes!