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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 Passionate Pioneers: The Story of Yiddish Secular Education in North America, 1910 – 1960 Fradle Pomerantz Freidenreich; Jonathan Sarna, fwd.
Essay The University of the Ghetto Gloria Spielman‘s most recent book, Marcel Marceau: Master of Mime, is now available. Marcel Marceau: Master of Mime won a silver medal in the 2011… Gloria Spielman October 31, 2011
Nonfiction Meneket Rivkah: A Manual of Wisdom and Piety for Jewish Women Rivkah bat Meir; Samuel Spinner, trans.
Poetry Songs to a Moonstruck Lady: Women in Yiddish Poetry The Dora Teitelboim Center for Yiddish Culture
Nonfiction My Future is in America: Autobiographies of Eastern European Jewish Immigrants Jocelyn Cohen and Daniel Soyer, ed. and trans.
Children’s Sholom’s Treasure: How Sholom Aleichem Became a Writer Erica Silverman; Mordicai Gerstein, illus.
