by Miriam Udel Honey on the Page: A Treasury of Yiddish Children’s LiteratureEditor and translator, Miriam Udel. Foreword by Jack Zipes. With illustrations by Paula Cohen and original artists. NYU Press, 2020.ISBN-10 : 1479874132ISBN-13 : 978-1479874132 Imagine a rabbi who spends a sublime Sabbath in the desert hanging out with a friendly lion; a farm’s … Continue reading #Yiddishlitmonth: Honey on the Page
#Yiddishlitmonth: The Clever Little Tailor
by Jordan Kutzik The Clever Little Tailor by Solomon SimonTranslator: David FormanIllustrator: Yehuda BlumPublisher: Kinder-Loshn PublicationsBilingual English/Yiddish editionISBN: 1949217019Publication year: 2021Purchase: From the publisher, here, or from Amazon.com, here. Jordan Kutzik, publisher – Kinder-Loshn Publications In a small Jewish town in Poland, at a time when giants still roam the earth, yet people are just the … Continue reading #Yiddishlitmonth: The Clever Little Tailor
#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
#Yiddishlitmonth: “The Rivals” and Other Stories
by Rachel Mines “The Rivals” and Other StoriesWritten by Jonah RosenfeldTranslated from the Yiddish by Rachel MinesPublished by Syracuse University Press, 2020ISBN 978-0-8156-1120-2 Purchase this book: https://press.syr.edu/supressbooks/3032/rivals-and-other-stories-the/ “The Rivals” and Other Stories comprises nineteen stories by Yiddish writer Jonah Rosenfeld selected from collections originally published in 1924, 1929, and 1955. Rosenfeld was a prolific and … Continue reading #Yiddishlitmonth: “The Rivals” and Other Stories
Sholem Aleichem! Welcome to #YiddishLitMonth
My name is Mindl Cohen, I am the academic director of the Yiddish Book Center, a nonprofit organization dedicated to Yiddish literature and culture, and I am thrilled to be guest curating the Global Literature in Libraries Initiative blog for the month of October. Throughout the month I will be sharing posts about newly published … Continue reading Sholem Aleichem! Welcome to #YiddishLitMonth
Global Literature in Libraries Initiative 