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Items with the tag:

yiddish

Cover of A Book About Bubkes
Chil­dren’s
A Book About Bubkes
Leslie Kimmelman; Roxana de Rond, illus.
Essay

Golem of the Low­er East Side

Jerome Charyn
August 21, 2023
Cover of Nothing Could Stop Her: The Courageous Life of Ruth Gruber
Chil­dren’s
Noth­ing Could Stop Her: The Coura­geous Life of Ruth Gruber
Rona Arato; Isabel Muñoz, illus.
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Excerpt: The For­got­ten Singer

Mau­rice Carr
July 17, 2023
Excerpt

The Buried Trea­sures of the Paper Brigade

Meryl Frank
June 26, 2023
Cover of The Last Consolation Vanished: The Testimony of a Sonderkommando in Auschwitz
Non­fic­tion
The Last Con­so­la­tion Van­ished: The Tes­ti­mo­ny of a Son­derkom­man­do in Auschwitz
Zalmen Gradowski; Rubye Monet, trans.
Cover of Ella KVELLephant and the Search for Bubbe’s Yiddish Treasure
Chil­dren’s
Ella KVELLe­phant and the Search for Bubbe’s Yid­dish Treasure
Jen Kost­man
Cover of Speaking Yiddish to Chickens: Holocaust Survivors on South Jersey Poultry Farms
Non­fic­tion
Speak­ing Yid­dish to Chick­ens: Holo­caust Sur­vivors on South Jer­sey Poul­try Farms
Seth Stern
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Ten Jew­ish Writ­ers Share Their Passover Read­ing Recommendations

JBC Staff
March 27, 2023
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Chil­dren’s
On the Move: Home Is Where You Find It
Michael Rosen; Quentin Blake, illus.
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Fic­tion
My Quar­rel With Hersh Rasseyner
Chaim Grade; Ruth Wisse, trans.
Poetry

Kad­dish

Maia Zelkha
December 5, 2022
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‘Pasts That Are as Diverse as the Present’: A Con­ver­sa­tion between Sacha Lamb and Aden Polydoros

Sacha Lamb, Aden Poly­doros
September 19, 2022
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JBC Book­shelf: Kids 2022 Fall Reading

Michal Hoschan­der Malen
September 9, 2022
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JBC Book­shelf: Fall 2022

Simona Zaret­sky
August 29, 2022
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How the Sovi­et Jew Was Made
Sasha Senderovich
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