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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
Essay Why I’m a Jewish Writer Stuart Rojstaczer was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he was educated in public and Orthodox Jewish schools. For many years, he was a professor of… Stuart Rojstaczer September 9, 2014
Essay Sholem Aleichem’s Motl on a Kindle as Yiddish Classics Go Digital Looking for something new to read with your book club? Have you thought about trying something old? Thanks to a collaboration between Yale University Press, New… Josh Lambert May 13, 2014
Essay Changing Times, Changing Letters, and Moving Forward Earlier this week, Liana Finck wrote about how she discovered A Bintel Brief and shared the history behind the column. Her graphic novel, A Bintel… Liana Finck April 18, 2014
Essay Finding a Story to Tell Earlier this week, Liana Finck shared the history behind the Forward’s Bintel Brief column. Her graphic novel, A Bintel Brief, was published by Ecco. She will be… Liana Finck April 17, 2014
Essay The Beginnings of A Bintel Brief Liana Finck is an emerging graphic novelist. She was a Fulbright Fellow in Brussels in 2009-10 and is a Six Points Fellow in New York. She publishes in The… Liana Finck April 14, 2014
Nonfiction Dear Mendl, Dear Reyzl: Yiddish Letter Manuals from Russia and America Alice Nakhimovsky and Roberta Newman
