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Yiddishlands

A Memoir, Second Edition

David G. Roskies

A remarkable family story and a whirlwind tour of Yiddish culture from 1906 to the present—updated in a second edition.

Paperback
Available October 2023
ISBN: 9780814350720
$26.99
eBOOK
Available October 2023
ISBN: 9780814350737
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Fear and Other Stories

Chana Blankshteyn
Translated by Anita Norich

Translation of Chana Blankshteyn’s stories depicting the tumultuous interwar years in Europe.

Printed Paper Cased
Published: May 2022
ISBN: 9780814349281
$92.99
Paperback
Published: May 2022
ISBN: 9780814349274
$34.99
eBOOK
Published: May 2022
ISBN: 9780814349298

London Yiddishtown

East End Jewish Life in Yiddish Sketch and Story, 1930–1950: Selected Works of Katie Brown, A. M. Kaizer, and I. A. Lisky

Translated with Introductions and Commentary by Vivi Lachs

Lively and engaging new view of London’s Jewish East End through translated stories of its Yiddish writers.

Printed Paper Cased
Published: November 2021
ISBN: 9780814348482
$92.99
Paperback
Published: November 2021
ISBN: 9780814348475
$29.99
eBOOK
Published: November 2021
ISBN: 9780814348499
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Survivors and Exiles

Yiddish Culture after the Holocaust

Jan Schwarz

Studies the variety, scope, and character of Yiddish culture in different geographical centers after the Holocaust.

Paperback
Published: September 2021
ISBN: 9780814348833
$36.99
Hardback
Published: September 2021
ISBN: 9780814339053
$92.99
eBOOK
Published: September 2021
ISBN: 9780814339060
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The Yiddish Historians and the Struggle for a Jewish History of the Holocaust

Mark L. Smith

Holocaust history written and researched by the Yiddish scholars who lived it.

Printed Paper Cased
Published: November 2020
ISBN: 9780814346129
$89.99
Paperback
Published: November 2020
ISBN: 9780814348413
$36.99
eBOOK
Published: November 2020
ISBN: 9780814346136

Whitechapel Noise

Jewish Immigrant Life in Yiddish Song and Verse, London 1884–1914

Vivi Lachs

New perspectives on Anglo-Jewish history via the poetry and song of Yiddish-speaking immigrants in London from 1884 to 1914.

Printed Paper Cased
Published: May 2018
ISBN: 9780814344880
$85.99
Paperback
Published: May 2018
ISBN: 9780814343555
$34.99
eBOOK
Published: May 2018
ISBN: 9780814343562

A Fire Burns in Kotsk

A Tale of Hasidism in the Kingdom of Poland

Menashe Unger
Translated by Jonathan Boyarin
Introduction by Glenn Dynner

A vivid novelistic account that details a crucial period in the evolution of Polish Hasidism, translated from Yiddish.

Paperback
Published: February 2015
ISBN: 9780814338131
$31.99
eBOOK
Published: February 2015
ISBN: 9780814338148

Choosing Yiddish

New Frontiers of Language and Culture

Edited by Lara Rabinovitch, Shiri Goren, and Hannah S. Pressman

Highlights an international generation of scholars currently revitalizing the field of Yiddish studies.

Paperback
Published: December 2012
ISBN: 9780814334447
$36.99
eBOOK
Published: December 2012
ISBN: 9780814337998

Inventing the Modern Yiddish Stage

Essays in Drama, Performance, and Show Business

Edited by Joel Berkowitz and Barbara Henry

Collects leading scholars’ insight on the plays, production, music, audiences, and political and aesthetic concerns of modern Yiddish theater.

Paperback
Published: May 2012
ISBN: 9780814335048
$39.99
eBOOK
Published: May 2012
ISBN: 9780814337196
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Yiddishlands

A Memoir

David G. Roskies
With a CD Featuring the Singing of Masha Roskies

A renowned scholar looks back on his life and the life of his mother, tracing the Yiddish experience through major historical events of the last century.

Hardback
Published: July 2008
ISBN: 9780814333976
$29.99
eBOOK
Published: July 2008
ISBN: 9780814335444

Defining the Yiddish Nation

The Jewish Folklorists of Poland

Itzik Nakhmen Gottesman

An examination of the history of Yiddish folklore from Poland between the two world wars.

Hardback
Published: November 2003
ISBN: 9780814326695
$42.99

Paper Bridges

Selected Poems of Kadya Molodowsky

Translated, introduced, and edited by Kathryn Hellerstein

A collection of poems by an accomplished modern Yiddish poet.

Paperback
Published: June 1999
ISBN: 9780814327180
$32.99
Hardback
Published: June 1999
ISBN: 9780814328460
$54.99
eBOOK
Published: June 1999
ISBN: 9780814338292

An Anthology of Modern Yiddish Poetry

Bilingual Edition

Selected and Translated by Ruth Whitman

Originally published in 1966, An Anthology of Modern Yiddish Poetry was the first bilingual anthology to feature the rich, spirited, and passionate Yiddish poetry of the twentieth century

Paperback
Published: May 1995
ISBN: 9780814325339
$36.99

I Want to Fall Like This

Selected Poems of Rukhl Fishman, A Bilingual Edition

Selected Poems of Rukhl Fishman
Translated from the Yiddish by Seymour Levitan
With an Introduction by David G. Roskies

Selected poems from Rukhl Fishman.

Paperback
Published: October 1994
ISBN: 9780814325414
$22.99

A Shtetl and Other Yiddish Novellas

Edited by Ruth Wisse

All share a common setting—the Eastern European Jewish town or shtetl, and all deal in different ways with a single topic—the Jewish confrontation with modernity.

Paperback
Published: October 1986
ISBN: 9780814318492
$27.99