Yidstock 2013: The Festival of New Yiddish Music (July 18-21) will bring the top names in klezmer and new Yiddish music to the stage at the Yiddish Book Center - including the Klezmer Conservatory Band, the Yidstock All-Stars, Steven Bernstein & Frank London, and many more. Don't miss out on what promises to be a great festival of music and related events.

For more information and to purchase tickets: www.yiddishbookcenter.org/yidstock

A Bintel Brief: A graphic novel adapted from letters to the Forverts newspaper's advice column

The exhibit’s illustrated panels are excerpts from a graphic novel by artist Liana Finck, to be published by Ecco Press in the winter of 2014. Each of the eleven stories in the book is based on a different letter written to the Bintel Brief, a beloved Yiddish advice column published in the Forvertsnewspaper beginning in 1906. The column was the brainchild of the newspaper's founding editor Abraham Cahan. The letters, written by recent immigrants to America, expressed a heightened sense of reality full of tragedy, hope, sweetness and humor.

The Book Center's new permanent exhibitions include:

* Unquiet Pages
* Sholem-bayes: Reflections on the American Jewish Home
* Kinder-vinkl
* The Yiddish Print Shop
* The Reading Library
* A Living Connection: Photographs from the An-sky Expeditions, 1912 - 1914