Items with the tag: yiddish | Jewish Book Council

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 Writings on Yiddish and Yiddishkayt: The War Years, 1939-1945

Writings on Yiddish and Yiddishkayt: The War Years, 1939 – 1945

Isaac Bashevis Singer; David Stromberg, trans.

Cover of A Revolution in Type: Gender and the Making of the American Yiddish Press

A Revolution in Type: Gender and the Making of the American Yiddish Press

Essay

Revisiting American Yiddish Journalism

Ayelet Brinn

November 13, 2023

Excerpt

Excerpt: The Golem of Brooklyn

Adam Mansbach

October 2, 2023

Cover of Blessed Hands: Stories

Blessed Hands: Stories

Frume Halpern; Yermiyahu Ahron Taub, trans

Cover of The Inheritance (Yurusha): An Autobiography

The Inheritance (Yurusha): An Autobiography

Israel Rosen Edited by Elliot Rosen

Cover of A Book About Bubkes

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

Nothing Could Stop Her: The Courageous Life of Ruth Gruber

Rona Arato; Isabel Muñoz, illus.

Excerpt

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

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

Ella KVELLephant and the Search for Bubbe’s Yiddish Treasure

Cover of Speaking Yiddish to Chickens: Holocaust Survivors on South Jersey Poultry Farms

Speaking Yiddish to Chickens: Holocaust Survivors on South Jersey Poultry Farms

Recommended Reading

Ten Jewish Writers Share Their Passover Reading Recommendations

JBC Staff

March 27, 2023