10,000 Yiddish texts go OA at the Internet Archive

Brewster Kahle, Yiddish literature goes online, Internet Archive, February 7, 2009. See also the press release or the New York Times story. Update (3/16/09).  On the downside (for OA, not for Yiddish), 10k turns out to be much less than half the number of published books in Yiddish.  On the upside (for Yiddish and perhaps one day for OA as well) over 1.5 million Yiddish books have been saved from oblivion.