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Essay

Between Memory and Imagination: Understanding My Mother’s Childhood in Siberia

Zeeva Bukai

February 23, 2026

Cover of Playmakers: The Jewish Entrepreneurs Who Created the Toy Industry in America

Playmakers: The Jewish Entrepreneurs Who Created the Toy Industry in America

Cover of Crude Creatures: Confronting Representations of Black People in Yiddish Culture

Crude Creatures: Confronting Representations of Black People in Yiddish Culture

Cover of Yiddish: A Global Culture: Bold Lives, Boundless Creativity

Yiddish: A Global Culture: Bold Lives, Boundless Creativity

Interview—From the Journal

The Treasure Hunter: A Conversation with Aaron Lansky

Isadora Kianovsky

December 17, 2025

Cover of The Shepherd's Hour

The Shepherd’s Hour

Cover of Adventures of Max Spitzkopf: The Yiddish Sherlock Holmes

Adventures of Max Spitzkopf: The Yiddish Sherlock Holmes

Jonas Kreppel; Mikhl Yashinsky, trans.

Cover of Christmas in Yiddish Tradition: The Untold Story

Christmas in Yiddish Tradition: The Untold Story

Recommended Reading

Jewish Book Month 100: A Book for Every Decade

JBC Staff

November 10, 2025

Cover of Modern Jewish Worldmaking Through Yiddish Children's Literature

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

Cover of The Podolian Nights

The Podolian Nights

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

Cover of Sweet Babe! A Jewish Grandma Kvells

Sweet Babe! A Jewish Grandma Kvells

Robin Rosenthal

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

Cover of Laughing in Yiddish

Laughing in Yiddish