Center Works to Preserve Yiddish a Book at a Time (washingtonpost.com)

Center Works to Preserve Yiddish a Book at a Time (washingtonpost.com): "Center Works to Preserve Yiddish a Book at a Time
Mass. Man Finds History in Disparate Places
By Michael Powell
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, January 19, 2005; Page A03
AMHERST, Mass. -- History arrived not so long ago in a thousand-pound crate postmarked 'Bulawayo, Zimbabwe.'
Workers here wrestled the crate inside the National Yiddish Book Center and opened it. What treasures they found: Yiddish travelogues from Belgian Congo, accounts of Yiddish ostrich farmers, a famous history of the Russian Socialist Party. "