The University of Wisconsin-Madison will establish a center for Yiddish culture, to be directed by Henry Sapoznik, an expert on klezmer music and Yiddish and American popular culture.
The Mayrent Insitute of Yiddish Culture will be funded by a $1 million endowment from Sherry Mayrent and Carol Masters via the Corners Fund for Traditional Cultures, a donor advised fund of Boston’s Combined Jewish Philanthropies.
According to the UW’s Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies, the institute will be the only such institute devoted to fostering an understanding of the world of Yiddish through the arts.
The centerpiece of the new institute will be Mayrent’s collection of 6,000 78-rpm discs of Jewish music, which she plans to donate to UW-Madison’s Mills Music Library.
Read an in-depth article about the new Yiddish institute in the June issue of The Chronicle.
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