Institutions in Israel

Dozens of institutions dealing with Yiddish culture are running in the State of Israel. Three important groups thereof – universities, public language courses and culture clubs – can be found on special pages. Major institutions of other kinds are listed here.

Tel Aviv

Leyvik House - Association of Yiddish Writers and Journalists in Israel. Address: Dov Hoz St. 30. Phone: 03-5231830. Chairman: Daniel Galay. Email: leivikmail@gmail.com Website: http://www.leyvik.org.il

Shalom Aleichem House - research and educational center. Address: Berkovitch St. 2. Phone: 03-6956513. Website: http://bethshalomaleichem.co.il/ Among other activities, it serves as a home for the Yiddish song studio founded by Nechama Lifshitz and run by Regina Dricker.

Yung Yiddish - cultural center and library. Address: Levinsky St. 108, studio 5008. Phone: 03-6874433. Website: http://www.yiddish.co.il/

Yiddishpiel – the Yiddish theater in Israel. Address: Karlebach St. 7. Phone: 03-5254660. Website: http://www.yiddishpiel.co.il/

Max and Toby Friedland Center for Yiddish Culture, located at the Lewinsky college for education. Address: Shoshana Persits St. 5. Phone: 03-6901667. Email: YiddishCenter@levinsky.ac.il Website: https://yiddishcenter.levinsky.ac.il/

Anu - Museum of the Jewish People.  Address: Klausner St. 15, Tel Aviv University. Phone: 03-7457908. Email: rivka@bh.org.il Website: https://www.anumuseum.org.il/

Hemshech Dor - Generation of Successors, Yiddish lovers. Address: Dov Hoz St. 30. Phone: 050-3764062. E-mail: yiddishloversnextgeneration@gmail.com

Jerusalem

Yad Vashem - Holocaust History Museum. Address: Har Hazikaron. Phone: 02-6443570. Website: https://www.yadvashem.org/

Bat Yam

Sholem Asch House - the famous writer's home-museum. Address: Arlozorov St. 50. Phone: 03-5064536.