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    Yiddish

    Cover of Nautilus and Bone
    Poet­ry
    Nau­tilus and Bone
    Lisa Richter
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    Chil­dren’s
    Good­night Bub­bala: A Joy­ful, Jew­ish, Not-So-Qui­et Par­o­dy of Good­night Moon
    Sheryl Haft (auth.), Jill Weber (illus.)
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    Chil­dren’s
    In the Jerusalem Forest 
    Devora Busheri (auth.), Noa Kelner (illus.)
    Cover of The Last Surviving Dinosaur: The TyrantoCrankaTsuris
    Chil­dren’s
    The Last Sur­viv­ing Dinosaur: The TyrantoCrankaTsuris
    Steven Joseph
    Essay—From the Journal

    Papa Stal­in and the Hap­py Family

    On Com­mu­nist Yid­dish children’s books in the Sovi­et Union and Unit­ed States.

    Miri­am Udel
    April 29, 2019
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    Chil­dren’s
    Raisins and Almonds: A Yid­dish Lullaby
    Susan Tarcov; Sonia Sánchez, illus.
    Cover of The Dark Young Man
    Fic­tion
    The Dark Young Man
    Jacob Dinezon; Tina Lunson, trans.; Scott Hilton Davis, ed.
    Cover of In the Land of Happy Tears: Yiddish Tales for Modern Times
    Chil­dren’s
    In the Land of Hap­py Tears: Yid­dish Tales for Mod­ern Times
    David Stromberg, ed.
    Essay

    Find­ing a Portable Home­land in Yiddish

    Ellen Cassedy
    September 28, 2018
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    Fic­tion
    On the Land­ing: Sto­ries by Yen­ta Mash
    Yenta Mash; Ellen Cassedy, trans.
    Cover of Heymischer Homeopathy: The Schmendrick's Guide to Remedying Yiddish Kvetches
    Non­fic­tion
    Heymis­ch­er Home­opa­thy: The Schmen­drick­’s Guide to Rem­e­dy­ing Yid­dish Kvetches
    Chaim Yankel
    Essay

    Why I Write in Yiddish

    When I write in Yid­dish, I’m plac­ing my own small flag, how­ev­er tat­tered, how­ev­er imper­fect, in the realm of new Yid­dish literature.

    Yer­miyahu Ahron Taub
    March 12, 2018
    Cover of A Minyen Yidn (un Andere Zakhn): A Bunch of Jews (and other stuff)
    Fic­tion
    A Minyen Yidn (un Andere Zakhn): A Bunch of Jews (and oth­er stuff)
    Max B. Perlson, Trina Robbins
    Essay

    30 Days 30 Authors: Eddy Portnoy

    Cel­e­brate Jew­ish Book Month with #30days30authors! JBC invit­ed an author to share thoughts on #Jew­Lit for each day of Jew­ish Book Month. Watch, read, enjoy, and dis­cov­er!…
    Eddy Port­noy
    November 13, 2017
    Cover of Raising Secular Jews: Yiddish Schools and Their Periodicals for American Children, 1917-1950
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    Rais­ing Sec­u­lar Jews: Yid­dish Schools and Their Peri­od­i­cals for Amer­i­can Chil­dren, 1917 – 1950
    Naomi Prawer Kadar
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    Pio­neers: The First Breach
    Rose Wald­man
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