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Yiddish

Cover of In the Jerusalem Forest
Chil­dren’s
In the Jerusalem Forest 
Devora Busheri (auth.), Noa Kelner (illus.)
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Chil­dren’s
The Last Sur­viv­ing Dinosaur: The TyrantoCrankaTsuris
Steven Joseph
Essay—From the Journal

Papa Stal­in and the Hap­py Family

On Com­mu­nist Yid­dish children’s books in the Sovi­et Union and Unit­ed States.

Miri­am Udel
April 29, 2019
Cover of Raisins and Almonds: A Yiddish Lullaby
Chil­dren’s
Raisins and Almonds: A Yid­dish Lullaby
Susan Tarcov; Sonia Sánchez, illus.
Cover of The Dark Young Man
Fic­tion
The Dark Young Man
Jacob Dinezon; Tina Lunson, trans.; Scott Hilton Davis, ed.
Cover of In the Land of Happy Tears: Yiddish Tales for Modern Times
Chil­dren’s
In the Land of Hap­py Tears: Yid­dish Tales for Mod­ern Times
David Stromberg, ed.
Essay

Find­ing a Portable Home­land in Yiddish

Ellen Cassedy
September 28, 2018
Cover of On the Landing: Stories by Yenta Mash
Fic­tion
On the Land­ing: Sto­ries by Yen­ta Mash
Yenta Mash; Ellen Cassedy, trans.
Cover of Heymischer Homeopathy: The Schmendrick's Guide to Remedying Yiddish Kvetches
Non­fic­tion
Heymis­ch­er Home­opa­thy: The Schmen­drick­’s Guide to Rem­e­dy­ing Yid­dish Kvetches
Chaim Yankel
Essay

Why I Write in Yiddish

When I write in Yid­dish, I’m plac­ing my own small flag, how­ev­er tat­tered, how­ev­er imper­fect, in the realm of new Yid­dish literature.

Yer­miyahu Ahron Taub
March 12, 2018
Cover of A Minyen Yidn (un Andere Zakhn): A Bunch of Jews (and other stuff)
Fic­tion
A Minyen Yidn (un Andere Zakhn): A Bunch of Jews (and oth­er stuff)
Max B. Perlson, Trina Robbins
Essay

30 Days 30 Authors: Eddy Portnoy

Cel­e­brate Jew­ish Book Month with #30days30authors! JBC invit­ed an author to share thoughts on #Jew­Lit for each day of Jew­ish Book Month. Watch, read, enjoy, and dis­cov­er!…
Eddy Port­noy
November 13, 2017
Cover of Raising Secular Jews: Yiddish Schools and Their Periodicals for American Children, 1917-1950
Non­fic­tion
Rais­ing Sec­u­lar Jews: Yid­dish Schools and Their Peri­od­i­cals for Amer­i­can Chil­dren, 1917 – 1950
Naomi Prawer Kadar
Cover of Bad Rabbi And Other Strange but True Stories from the Yiddish Press
Non­fic­tion
Bad Rab­bi And Oth­er Strange but True Sto­ries from the Yid­dish Press
Eddy Port­noy
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Fic­tion
Pio­neers: The First Breach
Rose Wald­man
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Non­fic­tion
Ghet­to to Ghet­to: Yid­dish and Jive in Every­day Life
Her­bert L. Foster
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