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Nonfiction
The Rev­o­lu­tion­ary Roots of Mod­ern Yid­dish 1903 – 1917
Bar­ry Trachtenberg
Fiction
A Cat in the Ghetto
Rach­mil Bryks; S. Mor­ris Engel, trans.; Adam Rovn­er , fwd.
Nonfiction
The Jew­ish King Lear: A Com­e­dy in America
Jacob Gordin; Ruth Gay, trans.
Fiction
Ordi­nary Jews
Yehoshue Per­le; Shirley Kumove, trans.
Nonfiction
Yid­dishkeit: Jew­ish Ver­nac­u­lar and the New Land
Har­vey Pekar & Paul Buh­le, eds.
Visual Arts
A Liv­ing Lens: Pho­tographs of Jew­ish Life from the Pages of The Forward
Alana New­house
Nonfiction
Out­wit­ting His­to­ry: The Amaz­ing Adven­tures of a Man Who Res­cued a Mil­lion Yid­dish Books
Aaron Lan­sky
Nonfiction
Star­dust Lost: The Tri­umph, Tragedy, and Meshugas of the Yid­dish The­ater in America
Stephen Kan­fer
Fiction
Tevye the Dairy­man and Motl the Can­tor’s Son
Sholem Ale­ichem; Aliza Shevrin, trans.; Dan Miron, intro.
Nonfiction
Yid­dish­lands: A Memoir
David G. Roskies
Fiction
The Fam­i­ly Mashber
Der Nis­ter; Leonard Wolf, trans.; David Mal­ouf, intro.
Nonfiction
Isaac B. Singer: A Life
Flo­rence Noiville; Cather­ine Temer­son, trans.
Poetry
Pearls of Yid­dish Poetry
Joseph and Chana Mlotek; Bar­nett Zumoff, trans.; Mark Mlotek, ed.
Nonfiction
Meneket Rivkah: A Man­u­al of Wis­dom and Piety for Jew­ish Women
Rivkah bat Meir; Samuel Spin­ner, trans.
Nonfiction
Pas­sion­ate Pio­neers: The Sto­ry of Yid­dish Sec­u­lar Edu­ca­tion in North Amer­i­ca, 1910 – 1960
Fra­dle Pomer­antz Frei­den­re­ich; Jonathan Sar­na , fwd.
Nonfiction
Yid­dish Civ­i­liza­tion: The Rise and Fall of a For­got­ten Nation
Paul Kri­waczek
Nonfiction
My Future is in Amer­i­ca: Auto­bi­ogra­phies of East­ern Euro­pean Jew­ish Immigrants
Joce­lyn Cohen and Daniel Soy­er, ed. and trans.
Poetry
Songs to a Moon­struck Lady: Women in Yid­dish Poetry
The Dora Teit­el­boim Cen­ter for Yid­dish Culture
Children's
Sholom’s Trea­sure: How Sholom Ale­ichem Became a Writer
Eri­ca Sil­ver­man; Mordi­cai Ger­stein, illus.
Children's
Zlateh the Goat and Oth­er Stories
Isaac Bashe­vis Singer ; Mau­rice Sendak, illus.
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