NYC Launch: Grolier Club

Based on her new book Modern Jewish Worldmaking Through Yiddish Children’s Literature, Yiddish scholar Miriam Udel will reflect on her efforts to reclaim and revivify the corpus of secular Yiddish children’s literature published in Eastern Europe and the Americas during the 20th century. She will consider the relationship between the texts, many of which have been preserved digitally, and the vulnerable books-as-objects, focusing especially on the collection of children’s books “rescued” from the Buenos Aires Jewish community after the AMIA bombing attack in 1994.

Modern Jewish Worldmaking Through Yiddish Children’s Literature will be available for sale and signing at the event.