Beit Laiwik - Association of Yiddish Writers and Journalists in Israel

To disseminate Yiddish culture among the general public, and to promote and protect the cultural, economic, and social needs of association members by cultivating, establishing, and maintaining cultural institutions in the Yiddish language such as: libraries, reading and study halls, clubs, assembly halls, organizing lectures and readings, courses, choirs, orchestras, performances, and publishing books, magazines, newspapers, bulletins, purchasing land and buildings for housing and facilities for professional, cultural, economic, and social needs; providing interest-free loans and providing all other means to advance the professional, cultural, and economic needs of association members. To perpetuate, through the establishment of cultural and charitable institutions, the memory of Jewish writers and journalists who passed away in the Land of Israel and abroad. To work among the public in Israel and the Jewish world to disseminate Yiddish culture and literature, to initiate activities among the public, especially the younger generation, to promote knowledge of the Yiddish language and its heritage, to organize cultural and educational events for the benefit of the entire public. To work among the Jewish public in Israel and the world to commemorate the memory of the Holocaust of European Jewry and the Jewish culture destroyed in the Holocaust, through publishing books, organizing events, and assisting memorial initiatives