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Sholem Aleykhem! Greetings from the National Yiddish Book Center. This is the April edition of our monthly e-mail newsletter. IN THIS ISSUE: 1. Pakn Treger online 2. Ess Mayn Kind -- A Special Series on Jewish Food 3. Everything you need for Pesach 4. The Jewish Reader -- A guide for book groups 5. The gift of membership 6. Sam Kassow on Emanuel Ringelblum PAKN TREGER ONLINE It's been hailed in the national press as "arguably the best Jewish magazine in English in America." Our members invariably describe it as the number-one benefit of membership. By popular demand, we've put the best of Pakn Treger, the magazine of the National Yiddish Book Center, on our Web site for all to see and share. The Spring 2003 issue is now available for viewing, in full color, as it appears in print. Articles now online: * Imagining Yiddish Janet Hadda finds the future of Yiddish culture within the fascinating works of a new generation of writers. * The Claim of a Jewish Eye by Alan Trachtenberg Is there really such a thing as a Jewish way of photographing the world? To find the current Pakn Treger online, click on: http://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/story.php?n=10088 [NOTE: Pakn Treger articles are presented as crisp, high-resolution images. Some articles may take additional time to download, depending on the speed of your Internet connection. Trust us -- it's worth the wait!] ESS MAYN KIND -- THE STORY OF JEWISH CUISINE Food! The Book Center presents four delectable programs on everyone's favorite topic: Sunday events in April feature lectures, films and discussions on Jewish cuisine. Topics range from the origins of borscht and gefilte fish, to the relationship of food and memory in Jewish culture. A complete list of events can be found in our online calendar: http://www.bikher.org/story.php?n=calendar PESACH PREPARATIONS And speaking of food... Are you ready for Passover? Our gift shop has everything you need for your seder from haggadahs to seder plates. We have holiday books for children, cookbooks and even a Passover "Bag of Plagues" for pre-schoolers. Many of these items are available on-line at www.greatjewishbooks.com or by calling our store at 800-783-9272. Remember, Book Center members save 10% off the list price of all books and gifts, and all profits go to help save Yiddish. http://www.greatjewishbooks.com THE JEWISH READER: A GUIDE FOR BOOK GROUPS April's Jewish Reader features "Collected Stories" by Grace Paley, one of America's most revered story writers. Born in 1922 in New York City to Russian-Jewish immigrant parents, Paley began writing in the 1950s while washing dishes, changing diapers, and taking her children to the park. Her bittersweet stories are about everyday life -- relationships, children, loneliness and love. The "Collected Stories" is one of the 100 Greatest Works of Modern Jewish Literature and brings together all three volumes of Paley's fiction. For excerpts, a review essay by Joan Leegant, and discussion questions, see this month's Jewish Reader at: http://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/story.php?n=10090 GIVE THE GIFT OF MEMBERSHIP Looking for a thoughtful gift idea? Membership in the National Yiddish Book Center is the perfect present for a special friend or relative, for a bar mitzvah, birthday, or other simkhe. We'll send each recipient a New Member Packet, a subscription to Pakn Treger (our acclaimed English-language magazine) - and a personalized gift card with your name and commemoration. A basic gift membership is $36. For a contribution of $54 or more, we'll also send "Say It In Yiddish," a fascinating Yiddish-English phrasebook. And for $360, we'll include our unabridged, 13-hour radio series on nine cassettes, "Jewish Short Stories from Eastern Europe and Beyond." For a gift membership form, go to: http://www.bikher.org/story.php?n=29 Not a member? Membership expired? Click here: http://www.bikher.org/story.php?n=24 May 4: THE ANNUAL MELINDA ROSENBLATT MEMORIAL LECTURE Historian Sam Kassow, Charles Northam Professor of History at Trinity College, will lecture on Emanuel Ringelblum, organizer of the Oneg Shabbat Archive, one of the best-known chronicles of life under Nazi occupation in the Warsaw Ghetto. Some of the archive, hidden in milk cans, survived the War and was found buried under the streets of the ghetto. The reports and documents Ringelblum commissioned provide a vivid picture of how Jews attempted to survive in the doomed ghetto. http://www.bikher.org/story.php?n=calendar