My Yiddishe Bookshelf

By ANNE TRUBEK

In Cleveland, where I live, students in an eighth-grade Hebrew-school class recently pretended to be shtetl dwellers and spoke Yiddish for a day. This month the International Association of Yiddish Clubs will hold its annual conference here. Yiddish is popping up all over town. And not just in Cleveland. At the University of Chicago and elsewhere, courses in Yiddish have been added to the curriculum. In 1997 the National Yiddish Book Center opened a new 37,000-square-foot building in Amherst,