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Nonfiction Meneket Rivkah: A Manual of Wisdom and Piety for Jewish Women Rivkah bat Meir; Samuel Spinner, trans.
Nonfiction Passionate Pioneers: The Story of Yiddish Secular Education in North America, 1910 – 1960 Fradle Pomerantz Freidenreich; Jonathan Sarna, fwd.
Essay The University of the Ghetto Gloria Spielman‘s most recent book, Marcel Marceau: Master of Mime, is now available. Marcel Marceau: Master of Mime won a silver medal in the 2011… Gloria Spielman October 31, 2011
Poetry Songs to a Moonstruck Lady: Women in Yiddish Poetry The Dora Teitelboim Center for Yiddish Culture
Nonfiction My Future is in America: Autobiographies of Eastern European Jewish Immigrants Jocelyn Cohen and Daniel Soyer, ed. and trans.
Children’s Sholom’s Treasure: How Sholom Aleichem Became a Writer Erica Silverman; Mordicai Gerstein, illus.
Nonfiction Yiddish Literature in America: 1870 – 2000 Emanuel S. Goldsmith; Barnett Zumoff, trans.
Essay A Funny Thing Happened — True Story! Wayne Hoffman‘s most recent book, Sweet Like Sugar, is now available. Hoffman is the deputy editor of Nextbook Press and will be blogging for the… Wayne Hoffman August 29, 2011