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    Nonfiction
    Choos­ing Yid­dish: New Fron­tiers of Lan­guage and Culture
    Lara Rabi­novitch, Goren Shiri, Han­nah S. Press­man , eds.
    Nonfiction
    Invent­ing the Mod­ern Yid­dish Stage: Essays in Dra­ma, Per­for­mance, and Show Business
    Joel Berkowitz and Bar­bara Hen­ry, eds.
    Nonfiction
    Dan­ger­ous Melodies: Clas­si­cal Music in Amer­i­ca from the Great War through the Cold War
    Jonathan Rosen­berg
    Nonfiction
    Singer’s Type­writer and Mine: Reflec­tions on Jew­ish Culture
    Ilan Sta­vans
    Nonfiction
    In Har­ness: Yid­dish Writ­ers’ Romance With Communism
    Gen­nady Estraikh
    Nonfiction
    Pro­let­pen: Amer­i­ca’s Rebel Yid­dish Poets
    Amelia Glaser; David Wein­traub, eds.
    Nonfiction
    Yid­dish and the Cre­ation of Sovi­et Jew­ish Cul­ture 1918 – 1930
    David Shneer
    Poetry
    Drunk From the Bit­ter Truth: The Poems of Anna Margoloin
    Anna Mar­golin, Shirley Kumove, trans.
    Fiction
    Radi­ant Days, Haunt­ed Nights: Great Tales From the Trea­sury of Yid­dish Folk Literature
    Joachim Neu­groschel, ed. and trans.
    Nonfiction
    Adven­tures in Yid­dish­land: Postver­nac­u­lar Lan­guage and Culture
    Jef­frey Shandler
    Nonfiction
    The Rise of Mod­ern Yid­dish Cullture
    David E. Fishman
    Children's
    Kvetchy Boy
    Anne-Marie Baila Asner
    Nonfiction
    The Asso­ci­a­tion of Jew­ish Libraries Guide to Yid­dish Short Stories
    Ben­nett Muraskin
    Fiction
    Argu­ing with the Storm: Sto­ries by Yid­dish Women Writers
    Rhea Trege­bov, ed.; Kathryn Heller­stein, intro.
    Nonfiction
    The Sto­ry of Yid­dish: How a Mish-mosh of Lan­guages Saved the Jews
    Neal Karlen
    Nonfiction
    Just Say Nu: Yid­dish For Every Occa­sion (When Eng­lish Just Won’t Do)
    Michael Wex
    Cookbook
    Arthur Schwartz’s Jew­ish Home Cook­ing: Yid­dish Recipes Revisited
    Arthur Schwartz
    Nonfiction
    The Moscow Yid­dish The­ater: Art on Stage in the Time of Revolution
    Ben­jamin Har­shav; Ben­jamin and Bar­bara Har­shav, trans.
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    Recov­er­ing ​“Yid­dish­land”: Thresh­old Moments in Amer­i­can Literature
    Mer­le L. Bachman
    Nonfiction
    Yid­dish in Amer­i­ca: Essays on Yid­dish Cul­ture in the Gold­en Land
    Edward S. Shapiro
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