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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.

Nonfiction

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

Nonfiction

Yid­dish in the Cold War

Gen­nady Estraikh

Fiction

Wan­der­ing Stars

Sholem Ale­ichem; Aliza Shevrin, trans.; Tony Kush­n­er, fwd.

Children's

My First Yid­dish Word Book

Joni Kibort Suss­man, ed.; Pépi Marzel, illus.

Children's

Kid­dish Yid­dish— Jew­ish Tra­di­tions & Cul­ture in Rhyme

Bar­bara Feltquate; Tom Post, Illustrator

Fiction

Strange Ways (Of fremde Vegn)

Rokhl Fay­gen­berg; Robert & Gol­da Wer­man, trans.

Nonfiction

The Rev­o­lu­tion­ary Roots of Mod­ern Yid­dish 1903 – 1917

Bar­ry Trachtenberg

Fiction

A Cat in the Ghetto

Rach­mil Bryks; S. Mor­ris Engel, trans.; Adam Rovn­er , fwd.

Nonfiction

The Jew­ish King Lear: A Com­e­dy in America

Jacob Gordin; Ruth Gay, trans.

Fiction

Ordi­nary Jews

Yehoshue Per­le; Shirley Kumove, trans.

Nonfiction

Yid­dishkeit: Jew­ish Ver­nac­u­lar and the New Land

Har­vey Pekar & Paul Buh­le, eds.

Visual Arts

A Liv­ing Lens: Pho­tographs of Jew­ish Life from the Pages of The Forward

Alana New­house

Nonfiction

Out­wit­ting His­to­ry: The Amaz­ing Adven­tures of a Man Who Res­cued a Mil­lion Yid­dish Books

Aaron Lan­sky

Nonfiction

Star­dust Lost: The Tri­umph, Tragedy, and Meshugas of the Yid­dish The­ater in America

Stephen Kan­fer

Fiction

Tevye the Dairy­man and Motl the Can­tor’s Son

Sholem Ale­ichem; Aliza Shevrin, trans.; Dan Miron, intro.

Nonfiction

Yid­dish­lands: A Memoir

David G. Roskies

Fiction

The Fam­i­ly Mashber

Der Nis­ter; Leonard Wolf, trans.; David Mal­ouf, intro.