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Essay Food, Music and Meshugas: Bringing the Lower East Side to Life Earlier this week, Chris Moriarty wrote about writing her new book and songs of hope and failure. She will be blogging all week for MyJewishLearning and… Chris Moriarty December 1, 2011
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 Passionate Pioneers: The Story of Yiddish Secular Education in North America, 1910 – 1960 Fradle Pomerantz Freidenreich; Jonathan Sarna, fwd.
Essay The University of the Ghetto Gloria Spielman‘s most recent book, Marcel Marceau: Master of Mime, is now available. Marcel Marceau: Master of Mime won a silver medal in the 2011… Gloria Spielman October 31, 2011
Nonfiction Meneket Rivkah: A Manual of Wisdom and Piety for Jewish Women Rivkah bat Meir; Samuel Spinner, trans.
Poetry Songs to a Moonstruck Lady: Women in Yiddish Poetry The Dora Teitelboim Center for Yiddish Culture
Nonfiction My Future is in America: Autobiographies of Eastern European Jewish Immigrants Jocelyn Cohen and Daniel Soyer, ed. and trans.
