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    Items with the tag:

    yiddish

    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
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    Fic­tion
    Desires
    Celia Dropkin; Anita Norich, trans.
    Cover of The Schlemiel Kids Save the Moon
    Chil­dren’s
    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
    Non­fic­tion
    Occu­pied Words: What the Holo­caust Did to Yiddish
    Han­nah Pollin-Galay
    Cover of The Last of the Light
    Fic­tion
    The Last of the Light
    Alexan­der Shalom Joseph
    Cover of Feh: A Memoir
    Non­fic­tion
    Feh: A Memoir
    Shalom Aus­lan­der
    Cover of A Plague of Cholera and Other Stories
    Fic­tion
    A Plague of Cholera and Oth­er Stories
    Jonah Rosenfeld; Rachel Mines, trans.
    Cover of Amazing Abe: How Abraham Cahan's Newspaper Gave a Voice to Jewish Immigrants
    Chil­dren’s
    Amaz­ing Abe: How Abra­ham Cahan’s News­pa­per Gave a Voice to Jew­ish Immigrants
    Norman H. Finkelstein; Vesper Stamper, illus.
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    Non­fic­tion
    Unex­pect­ed Pas­sages, 1940 – 41 
    Rachel Scheer
    Essay

    The Ghost at the Feast: Writ­ing in the Shad­ow of Yiddish

    Toby Lloyd
    March 25, 2024
    Cover of Writings on Yiddish and Yiddishkayt: The War Years, 1939-1945
    Non­fic­tion
    Writ­ings on Yid­dish and Yid­dishkayt: The War Years, 1939 – 1945
    Isaac Bashevis Singer; David Stromberg, trans.
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    Non­fic­tion
    A Rev­o­lu­tion in Type: Gen­der and the Mak­ing of the Amer­i­can Yid­dish Press
    Ayelet Brinn
    Essay

    Revis­it­ing Amer­i­can Yid­dish Journalism

    Ayelet Brinn
    November 13, 2023
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    Excerpt: The Golem of Brooklyn

    Adam Mans­bach
    October 2, 2023
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