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    Yiddish

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    Chil­dren’s
    Git­ty and Kvetch
    Caroline Kusin Pritchard, Ariel Landy (Illustrator)
    Cover of Moshkeleh the Thief: A Rediscovered Novel
    Fic­tion
    Moshkeleh the Thief: A Redis­cov­ered Novel
    Sholom Aleichem, Curt Leviant
    Cover of Shloyml Boyml and His Purim Adventure
    Fic­tion
    Shloyml Boyml and His Purim Adventure
    Yale Strom
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    Fic­tion
    Rare Stuff
    Brett Ash­ley Kaplan
    Cover of Sutzkever: Essential Prose
    Fic­tion
    Sutzkev­er: Essen­tial Prose
    Avrom Sutzkever, Zackary Sholem Berger (Translator)
    Interview

    Set­ting Yid­dish Poet­ry to Music: A Con­ver­sa­tion with Alex Weiser

    Miran­da Cooper
    May 3, 2021
    Cover of Songs in Dark Times: Yiddish Poetry of Struggle from Scottsboro to Palestine
    Non­fic­tion
    Songs in Dark Times: Yid­dish Poet­ry of Strug­gle from Scotts­boro to Palestine
    Amelia M. Glaser
    Cover of Honey on the Page: A Treasury of Yiddish Children's Literature
    Fic­tion
    Hon­ey on the Page: A Trea­sury of Yid­dish Chil­dren’s Literature
    Miri­am Udel
    Cover of Her Birth and Lat­er Years: New and Col­lect­ed Poems, 1971–2021
    Poet­ry
    Her Birth and Lat­er Years: New and Col­lect­ed Poems, 1971 – 2021
    Ire­na Klepfisz
    Cover of Such a Library: A Yiddish Folktale Re-Imagined
    Chil­dren’s
    Such a Library: A Yid­dish Folk­tale Re-Imagined
    Jill Ross Nadler
    Cover of The Clever Little Tailor
    Fic­tion
    The Clever Lit­tle Tailor
    David For­man
    Cover of The Full Pomegranate: Poems of Avrom Sutzkever
    Poet­ry
    The Full Pome­gran­ate: Poems of Avrom Sutzkever
    Avrom Sutzkeverk, Richard J. Fein (trans.), Justin Cammy (intro.)  
    Essay

    Jew­ish Mid­wives in History

    Jor­dan Katz
    July 27, 2020
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    How Yid­dish Changed Amer­i­ca and How Amer­i­ca Changed Yiddish
    Ilan Sta­vans
    Josh Lam­bert
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    Fic­tion
    War­saw Stories
    Hersh Dovid Nomberg, Daniel Kennedy (trans.)
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    Chil­dren’s
    The Life of a Coat
    Kadya Molodowsky, Batia Kolton (illus.), Ilana Kurshan (trans.)
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