A Bildungsroman of a Different Sort: Ida Maze’s Dineh Reverberates Across the Decades by Yermiyahu Ahron Taub Dineh: An Autobiographical NovelBy Ida MazeTranslated and with an Afterword by Yermiyahu Ahron TaubForeward by Emma GarmanWhite Goat Press, 2022Paperback edition ISBN: 978-1-734872-9-2; Hardcover edition ISBN: 978-8-9852069-0-6; Ebook edition ISBN: 978-8-9852069-1-3 Dineh: An Autobiographical Novel by Ida Maze … Continue reading #Yiddishlitmonth: Dineh
#Yiddishlitmonth: Ode to the Dove
Building with the Sunlit Mind by Zackary Sholem Berger Ode to the Dove: A Yiddish Poem by Abraham Sutzkever By Avrom SutzkeverTranslated by Zackary Sholem BergerIllustrated by Liora Ostroff Publisher: Ben Yehuda Press (January 27, 2023)ISBN-10: 1953829503ISBN-13: 978-1953829504 One of the greatest Jewish poets of the 20th century, Avrom Sutzkever—who began his career in … Continue reading #Yiddishlitmonth: Ode to the Dove
#Yiddishlitmonth: The Book of Paradise
by Robert Adler Peckerar The Book of Paradise: The Marvellous Life of Samuel Abba StrewthBy Itzik MangerTranslated with an introduction by Robert Adler PeckerarPushkin Press Classics, 2023ISBN: 978-1782279259Purchase the book Originally published as:דאָס בוך פון גן־עדן: די וווּנדערליכע לעבנסבאַשרייַבונגען פון שמואל אַבא אַבערוואָWydawnictwo Ch. Brzoza, 1939[Serialized as די וווּנדערליכע לעבנסבאַשרייַבונגען פון שמואל אַבא אַבערווא in … Continue reading #Yiddishlitmonth: The Book of Paradise
#Yiddishlitmonth: May God Avenge Their Blood
“Refusing the Minefields: a Humanist Confronts Inhumanity,” Reflections on Rachmil Bryks’s May God Avenge Their Blood: a Holocaust Memoir Triptych. by Yermiyahu Ahron Taub May God Avenge Their Blood: a Holocaust Memoir TriptychBy Rachmil BryksTranslated by Yermiyahu Ahron TaubAfterwords by Belly Bryks Klein and Yermiyahu Ahron TaubLexington Books, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield, 2020. … Continue reading #Yiddishlitmonth: May God Avenge Their Blood
#Yiddishlitmonth: London Yiddishtown
by Vivi Lachs London Yiddishtown: East End Jewish Life in Yiddish Sketch and Story, 1930-1950Katie Brown, A. M. Kaizer, and I. A. LiskyTranslated with introductions and commentary by Vivi LachsDetroit: Wayne State University Press, 2021ISBN: 978-0-8143-4848-2Purchase this book London Yiddishtown is a collection of urban sketches that first appeared in the London Yiddish press. It … Continue reading #Yiddishlitmonth: London Yiddishtown
Excerpt: Pioneers: The First Breach by S. An-sky
A large, ungainly coach, a sort of Noah’s ark stuffed with passengers, lumbered slowly and with difficulty down the wide, muddy roads of the town of Miloslavka. The pair of horses, so gaunt their ribs protruded, kept stumbling and swaying off course. The coach rocked and twisted like a ship in a storm, rose and … Continue reading Excerpt: Pioneers: The First Breach by S. An-sky
Buried Yiddish Treasures in Lithuania
The past seems to bubble up to the surface more frequently and picturesquely in Lithuania than in other places. The country is famous for its deposits of amber, fossilized tree resin. These golden nuggets are brought up from deep underground, sometimes containing bits of long-dead insects and plants. Lithuania is also the burial ground of … Continue reading Buried Yiddish Treasures in Lithuania
Even Higher: Three Yiddish Retellings for Children
Growing up, I knew very little about Yiddish literature with the exception of The Wise Men of Chelm. My elementary school librarian read us the tales of the people so wise they tried to repopulate a river with canned herring. In middle school, I played Dorothy in the Solomon Schechter production of the Wizard of … Continue reading Even Higher: Three Yiddish Retellings for Children
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