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    Nonfiction
    Bad Rab­bi And Oth­er Strange but True Sto­ries from the Yid­dish Press
    Eddy Port­noy
    Fiction
    Pio­neers: The First Breach
    Rose Wald­man
    Fiction
    Oedi­pus in Brook­lyn and Oth­er Stories
    Blume Lem­pel; Ellen Cassedy and Yer­miyahu Ahron Taub , trans.
    Nonfiction
    Rev­o­lu­tion­ary Yid­dish­land: A His­to­ry of Jew­ish Radicalism
    Alain Brossat and Sylvia Klingberg
    Nonfiction
    New York’s Yid­dish The­ater: From the Bow­ery to Broadway
    Edna Nachshon
    Nonfiction
    Rhap­sody in Schmaltz: Yid­dish Food and Why We Can’t Stop Eat­ing It
    Michael Wex
    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
    Children's
    The Yid­dish Fish
    San­ti­a­go Cohen
    Nonfiction
    Sur­vivors and Exiles: Yid­dish Cul­ture after the Holocaust
    Jan Schwarz
    Poetry
    The Acro­bat: Select­ed Poems of Celia Dropkin
    Celia Drop­kin; Faith Jones, Jen­nifer Kro­novet, and Samuel Solomon, trans.
    Children's
    My Yid­dish Vacation
    Ione Skye; Scott Menchin, illus.
    Nonfiction
    A Ques­tion of Tra­di­tion: Women Poets in Yid­dish, 1586 – 1987
    Kathryn Heller­stein
    Poetry
    To Sing Away the Dark­est Days: Poems Re-Imag­ined from Yid­dish Folksongs
    Nor­bert Hirschhorn
    Nonfiction
    Dear Mendl, Dear Rey­zl: Yid­dish Let­ter Man­u­als from Rus­sia and America
    Alice Nakhi­movsky and Rober­ta Newman
    Children's
    The Fri­day Nights of Nana
    Amy Hest ; Claire A. Nivola, illus.
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    The Pow­er of Light: Eight Sto­ries for Hanukkah
    Isaac Bashe­vis Singer
    Nonfiction
    The Worlds of Sholem Aleichem
    Jere­my Dauber
    Fiction
    The Zel­menyan­ers: A Fam­i­ly Saga
    Moyshe Kul­bak; Hil­lel Halkin, trans.; Sasha Senderovich, intro. & notes
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