Yiddish


Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All of Its Moods – The Essential Guide to Jewish Heritage, Survival, and European Folklore (P.S.)
The Brothers Ashkenazi
Night
Shosha
The Magician of Lublin
The Slave
The Family Moskat
The Yiddish Policemen's Union
In My Father's Court
Enemies: A Love Story
Tevye the Dairyman and the Railroad Stories
Satan in Goray
Gimpel the Fool and Other Stories
The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer
Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books
The Jewish Image in American Film by Lester D. FriedmanEl salón de los artistas exiliados en California by Núria AñóJewish Science Fiction and Fantasy of the 1960s and 70s by Valerie Estelle FrankelMen As Friends by Irwin EpsteinAmerican Jewish Filmmakers by David Desser
Books on Jewish Films
40 books — 5 voters
Tevye the Dairyman and the Railroad Stories by Sholom AleichemThe Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael ChabonThe Slave by Isaac Bashevis SingerGimpel the Fool and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis SingerThe Brothers Ashkenazi by Israel J. Singer
Yiddish Literature
76 books — 42 voters

The Chosen by Chaim PotokThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael ChabonMy Name Is Asher Lev by Chaim PotokThe Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Jews in Literature
884 books — 312 voters

The Meyersons of Meryton by Mirta Ines TruppThe Golem and the Jinni by Helene WeckerBecoming Malka by Mirta Ines TruppThe Rabbi's Cat by Joann SfarDestiny by Design- Leah's Journey by Mirta Ines Trupp
Jewish Books That Aren't Depressing
184 books — 30 voters
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankMaus I by Art SpiegelmanThe Chosen by Chaim PotokMy Name Is Asher Lev by Chaim PotokMaus II by Art Spiegelman
Best Jewish Books
395 books — 115 voters

Rona Simmons
Bringing you 'raisins and almonds' and words (from a Yiddish lullaby ...more
Rona Simmons, Postcards from Wonderland

The town was laid out like a hamantasch with three corners. In the middle of town stood the synagogue; on the left end was the bathhouse, and on the right end the poorhouse.
Salomea Perl

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Q&A with Zackary Sholem Berger How often do you get to ask questions of a Yiddish poet - who happens not to be dead yet (tfu tf…more
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Learning Yiddish, reading Yiddish, thinking Yiddish. Maybe you should eat something.
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