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Essay The Beauty of a Biographical Dictionary Ezra Glinter is the editor of the new story anthology Have I Got a Story for You: More Than a Century of Fiction from The Forward, out tomorrow from W.… Ezra Glinter October 31, 2016
Nonfiction Revolutionary Yiddishland: A History of Jewish Radicalism Alain Brossat and Sylvia Klingberg
Nonfiction Immigrants Against the State: Yiddish and Italian Anarchism in America Kenyon Zimmer
Fiction Have I Got a Story for You: More Than a Century of Fiction from the Forward Ezra Glinter
Cookbook The New Yiddish Kitchen: Gluten-Free and Paleo Kosher Recipes for the Holidays and Every Day Jennifer Robins Simone Miller
Poetry The Acrobat: Selected Poems of Celia Dropkin Celia Dropkin; Faith Jones, Jennifer Kronovet, and Samuel Solomon, trans.
Essay Paperless Love: Translating Yiddish Letters Earlier this week, Sarah Wildman shared a short reading list and an interesting letter that didn’t make it into her book, Paper Love: Searching for the Girl My… Sarah Wildman October 30, 2014
Poetry To Sing Away the Darkest Days: Poems Re-Imagined from Yiddish Folksongs Norbert Hirschhorn
Essay Why I’m a Jewish Writer Stuart Rojstaczer was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he was educated in public and Orthodox Jewish schools. For many years, he was a professor of… Stuart Rojstaczer September 9, 2014
Essay Sholem Aleichem’s Motl on a Kindle as Yiddish Classics Go Digital Looking for something new to read with your book club? Have you thought about trying something old? Thanks to a collaboration between Yale University Press, New… Josh Lambert May 13, 2014