| Congress for Jewish Culture

What we are:

The Congress for Jewish Culture, founded in 1948, promotes Yiddish language and culture. We believe that the printed word is the face of a language, the spoken word its beating heart. We join artists and individuals to the Yiddish community through live programming, print publications, and web media. We join institutions in the Yiddish world to each other through an apolitical calendar that allows you to find out where you belong in this velt mit veltlekh.

How we do it:

Publication of the world’s oldest Yiddish literary journal, the semiannual Di Tsukunft (The Future)
Publication of new works in Yiddish or Yiddish/English
Monthly coffee houses celebrating Yiddish folksong and poetry with master performers from around the world
A weekly leyenkrayz (reading circle) studying the best Yiddish literature has to offer