The National Yiddish Book Center is housed in a 37,000 square foot building which includes a book repository, exhibit halls, a theater, a reading room, and English-language book store, a gift shop and offices.
Admission is free.
The central collection. The Center has a collection of 1.5 million volumes. About 50,000 are added each year. The Center is responsible for saving many Yiddish books from destruction. The core collection including 100,000 volumes and 150,000 folios of sheet music is open to the public on a drop-in basis.