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We fight, We win, Am Yisrael Chai
In the tsunami of cuts the Federal government has been making to everything from food banks to public health, it may be tough to find time to mourn the humanities.
But if you have ever searched for something at the National Yiddish Book Center’s website, or if, over the past 20 years, you have enjoyed the translation of a medieval Hebrew poem into English, you may have the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Endowment for the Arts to thank.
President Trump’s budget proposal includes the elimination of the NEH and the NEA. This is a harsh blow to America, and it will hit the Jewish academic and literary community hard.
These federal agencies have supported some of the transformational cultural projects in recent Jewish American history — and now, one day after the entire literature staff of the NEA was let go, it’s time to talk about it.
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But if you have ever searched for something at the National Yiddish Book Center’s website, or if, over the past 20 years, you have enjoyed the translation of a medieval Hebrew poem into English, you may have the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Endowment for the Arts to thank.
President Trump’s budget proposal includes the elimination of the NEH and the NEA. This is a harsh blow to America, and it will hit the Jewish academic and literary community hard.
These federal agencies have supported some of the transformational cultural projects in recent Jewish American history — and now, one day after the entire literature staff of the NEA was let go, it’s time to talk about it.

Trump's cuts are a war on Jewish literature, thought and history itself
The proposed elimination of the NEA and the NEH is already hitting the Jewish academic and literary community hard.
