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Fiction Arguing with the Storm: Stories by Yiddish Women Writers Rhea Tregebov, ed.; Kathryn Hellerstein, intro.
Nonfiction The Moscow Yiddish Theater: Art on Stage in the Time of Revolution Benjamin Harshav; Benjamin and Barbara Harshav, trans.
Nonfiction Recovering “Yiddishland”: Threshold Moments in American Literature Merle L. Bachman
Recommended Reading My Influences Are Showing Earlier this week, Liana Finck let us peek behind the curtain at her source material for him comic based on A Bintel Brief. She showed us the first two pages and the… Liana Finck January 27, 2012
Essay The Wedding Guest Liana Finck is adapting old Yiddish press self-help columns into a book. This week, she’s letting us peek behind the curtain at her source material. On… Liana Finck January 25, 2012
Essay A Bintel Brief: A Bundle of Letters Liana Finck’s Bintel Brief comic is currently being serialized in the Forward. She will be blogging here all week for Jewish Book Council and MyJewishLearning.This… Liana Finck January 23, 2012
Nonfiction Yiddish in America: Essays on Yiddish Culture in the Golden Land Edward S. Shapiro
Children’s Kiddish Yiddish— Jewish Traditions & Culture in Rhyme Barbara Feltquate; Tom Post, Illustrator