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Items with the tag:

yiddish

Essay

Isaac Bashe­vis Singer and ​‘Faith in the Yid­dish Language’

David Stromberg
May 9, 2022
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Non­fic­tion
The Mur­ders of Moisés Ville: The Rise and Fall of the Jerusalem of South America
Javier Sinay; Robert Croll, trans.
Essay

Inves­ti­gat­ing ​‘The Mur­ders of Moisés Ville’

Javier Sinay
March 28, 2022
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Why Is Every­body Yelling?: Grow­ing Up in My Immi­grant Family
Marisabina Russo
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Chil­dren’s
Big Dreams, Small Fish
Paula Cohen
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JBC Book­shelf: Spring 2022

Simona Zaret­sky
March 2, 2022
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Fic­tion
From the Jew­ish Provinces: Select­ed Stories
Fradl Shtok, Allison Schachter and Jordan D. Finkin (Translators)
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Women Writ­ing Jew­ish Moder­ni­ty, 1919 – 1939
Alli­son Schachter
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Yid­dish Paris: Stag­ing Nation and Com­mu­ni­ty in Inter­war France
Nick Under­wood
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Fic­tion
Shay­na
Miriam Ruth Black
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Twelve Mem­o­rable Book Cov­ers of 2021

Bec­ca Kantor
December 27, 2021
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Excerpt — When I Grow Up: The Lost Auto­bi­ogra­phies of Six Yid­dish Teenagers

Ken Krim­stein
November 15, 2021
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When I Grow Up: The Lost Auto­bi­ogra­phies of Six Yid­dish Teenagers
Ken Krim­stein
Essay

Poet­ic Justice

Amy Oringel
October 19, 2021
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Jew­ish Lit­er­a­ture: A Very Short Introduction
Ilan Sta­vans
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Moshkeleh the Thief: A Redis­cov­ered Novel
Sholom Aleichem, Curt Leviant
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