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Poetry
Her Birth and Lat­er Years: New and Col­lect­ed Poems, 1971 – 2021
Ire­na Klepfisz
Children's
Such a Library: A Yid­dish Folk­tale Re-Imagined
Jill Ross Nadler
Fiction
The Clever Lit­tle Tailor
David For­man
Poetry
The Full Pome­gran­ate: Poems of Avrom Sutzkever
Avrom Sutzkev­erk, Richard J. Fein (trans.), Justin Cam­my (intro.) 
Fiction
How Yid­dish Changed Amer­i­ca and How Amer­i­ca Changed Yiddish
Ilan Sta­vans | Josh Lambert
Fiction
War­saw Stories
Hersh Dovid Nomberg, Daniel Kennedy (trans.)
Children's
The Life of a Coat
Kadya Molodowsky, Batia Kolton (illus.), Ilana Kur­shan (trans.)
Poetry
Nau­tilus and Bone
Lisa Richter
Children's
Good­night Bub­bala: A Joy­ful, Jew­ish, Not-So-Qui­et Par­o­dy of Good­night Moon
Sheryl Haft (auth.), Jill Weber (illus.)
Children's
In the Jerusalem Forest
Devo­ra Bush­eri (auth.), Noa Kel­ner (illus.)
Children's
The Last Sur­viv­ing Dinosaur: The TyrantoCrankaTsuris
Steven Joseph
Children's
Raisins and Almonds: A Yid­dish Lullaby
Susan Tar­cov; Sonia Sánchez, illus.
Fiction
The Dark Young Man
Jacob Dine­zon; Tina Lun­son, trans.; Scott Hilton Davis, ed.
Children's
In the Land of Hap­py Tears: Yid­dish Tales for Mod­ern Times
David Stromberg, ed.
Fiction
On the Land­ing: Sto­ries by Yen­ta Mash
Yen­ta Mash; Ellen Cassedy , trans.
Nonfiction
Heymis­ch­er Home­opa­thy: The Schmen­drick­’s Guide to Rem­e­dy­ing Yid­dish Kvetches
Chaim Yankel
Fiction
A Minyen Yidn (un Andere Zakhn): A Bunch of Jews (and oth­er stuff)
Max B. Perl­son, Tri­na Robbins
Nonfiction
Rais­ing Sec­u­lar Jews: Yid­dish Schools and Their Peri­od­i­cals for Amer­i­can Chil­dren, 1917 – 1950
Nao­mi Praw­er Kadar
Nonfiction
Ghet­to to Ghet­to: Yid­dish and Jive in Every­day Life
Her­bert L. Foster
Nonfiction
Bad Rab­bi And Oth­er Strange but True Sto­ries from the Yid­dish Press
Eddy Port­noy
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