Earlier this month "CBS Saturday Morning" co-hosts Jeff Glor, Michelle Miller and Dana Jacobson aired a TV segment about the Jewish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts.
The center, founded 42 years ago by then-graduate student Aaron Lansky, has collected more than a million and a half Yiddish books and made them available to visitors.
In 1997 the center established the Steven Spielberg Digital Yiddish Library, where complete digitized works can be accessed online, free of charge. The digital library today contains 12,000 titles, which so far have been downloaded an astounding 1.6 million times.
In this video interview, Lansky tells the story of the center's creation and shows some of the books, ranging from Yiddish classics to a translation of the children's book Curious George.
Enjoy!
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