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Cover of Laughing in Yiddish

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.

Recommended Reading

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

Cover of Writings on Yiddish and Yiddishkayt: A Spiritual Reappraisal 1946-1955

Writings on Yiddish and Yiddishkayt: A Spiritual Reappraisal 1946 – 1955

Isaac Bashevis Singer; David Stromberg, trans.

Interview

Unasked Questions: A Conversation with Mikołaj Grynberg and his English translator, Sean Gasper Bye

Madeleine Wulfahrt

January 13, 2025

Recommended Reading

JBC Bookshelf: Winter 2025

Kyra Lisse

November 10, 2024

Cover of Desires

Celia Dropkin; Anita Norich, trans.

Cover of The Schlemiel Kids Save the Moon

The Schlemiel Kids Save the Moon

Audrey Barbakoff; Rotem Teplow, illus.

Interview

‘Language Is Always in Motion’: A Conversation with Hannah Pollin-Galay

Isadora Kianovsky

September 16, 2024

Cover of Occupied Words: What the Holocaust Did to Yiddish

Occupied Words: What the Holocaust Did to Yiddish

Hannah Pollin-Galay