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The Incorruptibles: A True Story of Kingpins, Crime Busters, and the Birth of the American Underworld
Essay Oedipus — in Brooklyn? And in Yiddish? Ellen Cassedy and Yermiyahu Ahron Taub received the Yiddish Book Center’s 2012 Translation Prize for their work on the fiction of Blume Lempel, now compiled into the book… Ellen Cassedy December 12, 2016
Essay 12 Historic Forverts Front Pages Ezra Glinter is the editor of the new story anthology Have I Got a Story for You: More Than a Century of Fiction from The Forward. With the official… Ezra Glinter December 5, 2016
Essay The Beauty of a Biographical Dictionary Ezra Glinter is the editor of the new story anthology Have I Got a Story for You: More Than a Century of Fiction from The Forward, out tomorrow from W.… Ezra Glinter October 31, 2016
Nonfiction Revolutionary Yiddishland: A History of Jewish Radicalism Alain Brossat and Sylvia Klingberg
Nonfiction Immigrants Against the State: Yiddish and Italian Anarchism in America Kenyon Zimmer
Fiction Have I Got a Story for You: More Than a Century of Fiction from the Forward Ezra Glinter
Cookbook The New Yiddish Kitchen: Gluten-Free and Paleo Kosher Recipes for the Holidays and Every Day Jennifer Robins Simone Miller
Poetry The Acrobat: Selected Poems of Celia Dropkin Celia Dropkin; Faith Jones, Jennifer Kronovet, and Samuel Solomon, trans.
Essay Paperless Love: Translating Yiddish Letters Earlier this week, Sarah Wildman shared a short reading list and an interesting letter that didn’t make it into her book, Paper Love: Searching for the Girl My… Sarah Wildman October 30, 2014
Poetry To Sing Away the Darkest Days: Poems Re-Imagined from Yiddish Folksongs Norbert Hirschhorn