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Yiddish

Cover of Rare Stuff
Fic­tion
Rare Stuff
Brett Ash­ley Kaplan
Cover of Shloyml Boyml and His Purim Adventure
Fic­tion
Shloyml Boyml and His Purim Adventure
Yale Strom
Cover of Sutzkever: Essential Prose
Fic­tion
Sutzkev­er: Essen­tial Prose
Avrom Sutzkever, Zackary Sholem Berger (Translator)
Interview

Set­ting Yid­dish Poet­ry to Music: A Con­ver­sa­tion with Alex Weiser

Miran­da Cooper
May 3, 2021
Cover of Songs in Dark Times: Yiddish Poetry of Struggle from Scottsboro to Palestine
Non­fic­tion
Songs in Dark Times: Yid­dish Poet­ry of Strug­gle from Scotts­boro to Palestine
Amelia M. Glaser
Cover of Honey on the Page: A Treasury of Yiddish Children's Literature
Fic­tion
Hon­ey on the Page: A Trea­sury of Yid­dish Chil­dren’s Literature
Miri­am Udel
Cover of Her Birth and Lat­er Years: New and Col­lect­ed Poems, 1971–2021
Poet­ry
Her Birth and Lat­er Years: New and Col­lect­ed Poems, 1971 – 2021
Ire­na Klepfisz
Cover of Such a Library: A Yiddish Folktale Re-Imagined
Chil­dren’s
Such a Library: A Yid­dish Folk­tale Re-Imagined
Jill Ross Nadler
Cover of The Clever Little Tailor
Fic­tion
The Clever Lit­tle Tailor
David For­man
Cover of The Full Pomegranate: Poems of Avrom Sutzkever
Poet­ry
The Full Pome­gran­ate: Poems of Avrom Sutzkever
Avrom Sutzkeverk, Richard J. Fein (trans.), Justin Cammy (intro.)  
Essay

Jew­ish Mid­wives in History

Jor­dan Katz
July 27, 2020
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Fic­tion
How Yid­dish Changed Amer­i­ca and How Amer­i­ca Changed Yiddish
Ilan Sta­vans
Josh Lam­bert
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Fic­tion
War­saw Stories
Hersh Dovid Nomberg, Daniel Kennedy (trans.)
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Chil­dren’s
The Life of a Coat
Kadya Molodowsky, Batia Kolton (illus.), Ilana Kurshan (trans.)
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Poet­ry
Nau­tilus and Bone
Lisa Richter
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Chil­dren’s
Good­night Bub­bala: A Joy­ful, Jew­ish, Not-So-Qui­et Par­o­dy of Good­night Moon
Sheryl Haft (auth.), Jill Weber (illus.)
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