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Nonfiction Heymischer Homeopathy: The Schmendrick’s Guide to Remedying Yiddish Kvetches Chaim Yankel
Essay Why I Write in Yiddish When I write in Yiddish, I’m placing my own small flag, however tattered, however imperfect, in the realm of new Yiddish literature. Yermiyahu Ahron Taub March 12, 2018
Fiction A Minyen Yidn (un Andere Zakhn): A Bunch of Jews (and other stuff) Max B. Perlson, Trina Robbins
Essay 30 Days 30 Authors: Eddy Portnoy Celebrate Jewish Book Month with #30days30authors! JBC invited an author to share thoughts on #JewLit for each day of Jewish Book Month. Watch, read, enjoy, and discover!… Eddy Portnoy November 13, 2017
Nonfiction Raising Secular Jews: Yiddish Schools and Their Periodicals for American Children, 1917 – 1950 Naomi Prawer Kadar
Essay “Her Green Days”: Nature in the Yiddish Narrative Earlier this week Ellen Cassedy and Yermiyahu Ahron Taub wrote about their discovery of the Elena Ferrante of Yiddish literature and her transgressive fiction… Ellen Cassedy December 16, 2016
Essay Hiding in Plain Sight: A Private Yet Candid Yiddish Writer Earlier this week Ellen Cassedy and Yermiyahu Ahron Taub wrote about their discovery of Blume Lempel’s transgressive Yiddish fiction, now translated into English as… Ellen Cassedy, Yermiyahu Ahron Taub December 14, 2016
Fiction Oedipus in Brooklyn and Other Stories Blume Lempel; Ellen Cassedy and Yermiyahu Ahron Taub, trans.
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