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Nonfiction
Heymischer Homeopathy: The Schmendrick’s Guide to Remedying Yiddish Kvetches
Fiction
A Minyen Yidn (un Andere Zakhn): A Bunch of Jews (and other stuff)
Nonfiction
Raising Secular Jews: Yiddish Schools and Their Periodicals for American Children, 1917 – 1950
Nonfiction
Ghetto to Ghetto: Yiddish and Jive in Everyday Life
Nonfiction
Bad Rabbi And Other Strange but True Stories from the Yiddish Press
Fiction
Pioneers: The First Breach
Fiction
Oedipus in Brooklyn and Other Stories
Nonfiction
Revolutionary Yiddishland: A History of Jewish Radicalism
Nonfiction
New York’s Yiddish Theater: From the Bowery to Broadway
Nonfiction
Rhapsody in Schmaltz: Yiddish Food and Why We Can’t Stop Eating It
Nonfiction
Immigrants Against the State: Yiddish and Italian Anarchism in America
Fiction
Have I Got a Story for You: More Than a Century of Fiction from the Forward
Cookbook
The New Yiddish Kitchen: Gluten-Free and Paleo Kosher Recipes for the Holidays and Every Day
Children's
The Yiddish Fish
Nonfiction
Survivors and Exiles: Yiddish Culture after the Holocaust
Poetry
The Acrobat: Selected Poems of Celia Dropkin
Children's
My Yiddish Vacation
Nonfiction
A Question of Tradition: Women Poets in Yiddish, 1586 – 1987
Poetry
To Sing Away the Darkest Days: Poems Re-Imagined from Yiddish Folksongs
Nonfiction
Dear Mendl, Dear Reyzl: Yiddish Letter Manuals from Russia and America