Items with the tag: yiddish | Jewish Book Council

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Jewish Book Month 100: A Book for Every Decade

JBC Staff

November 10, 2025

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Modern Jewish Worldmaking Through Yiddish Children’s Literature

Essay

Recovering Yiddish Answers to the Enduring Question, “What Shall We Tell the Children?”

Miriam Udel

October 13, 2025

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Sweet Babe! A Jewish Grandma Kvells

Robin Rosenthal

Cover of The Podolian Nights

The Podolian Nights

Nachman of Bratslav; Jordan Finkin and Robert Adler Peckerar, trans.

Cover of 100 Objects from the Collections of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research

100 Objects from the Collections of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research

Stefanie Halpern

Essay

Cheesecake and Real Estate

Mark Kurlansky

July 14, 2025

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Laughing in Yiddish

Essay

‘Radicle’ Entanglements: Recovering Jewish Women’s Folk Healing Knowledge

Deatra Cohen

June 2, 2025

Cover of My Childhood in Pieces: A Stand-Up Comedy, a Skokie Elegy

My Childhood in Pieces: A Stand-Up Comedy, a Skokie Elegy

Cover of Ben Hecht's Jewish Theatre of Protest

Ben Hecht’s Jewish Theatre of Protest

Cover of So We Died: A Memoir of Life and Death in the Ghetto of Šiauliai, Lithuania

So We Died: A Memoir of Life and Death in the Ghetto of Šiauliai, Lithuania

Levi Shalit; Ellen Cassedy, trans.

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My Grandfather’s Stories: From the Shtetl to Chicago

Jamie Wendt

March 31, 2025

Cover of Sons and Daughters

Sons and Daughters

Chaim Grade; Rose Waldman, trans.

Excerpt

Excerpt: Sons and Daughters

Chaim Grade, Rose Waldman

March 24, 2025

Recommended Reading

The World of Chaim Grade: Books About Jewish Life in Pre-World War II Eastern Europe

Altie Karper

March 24, 2025