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
The Magician of Lublin
Shosha
The Slave
Satan in Goray
The Family Moskat
Tevye the Dairyman and the Railroad Stories
The Yiddish Policemen's Union
In My Father's Court
Enemies: A Love Story
Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books
Gimpel the Fool and Other Stories
The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer
Enemies by Isaac Bashevis SingerThe Magician of Lublin by Isaac Bashevis SingerThe Slave by Isaac Bashevis SingerShosha by Isaac Bashevis SingerDescent by Dovid Bergelson
Yiddish Novels
43 books — 4 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 SpiegelmanLiv's Secrets by Janet LevineThe Chosen by Chaim PotokMaus II by Art Spiegelman
Best Jewish Books
399 books — 131 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
77 books — 43 voters

Isaac Bashevis Singer
Where do the wheels of history lead? How can you be so sure that the wheels of history won't get bogged down in blood and marrow again? ...more
Isaac Bashevis Singer, The Penitent

Nathan Englander
No, no," Arnie says. "Fondle--fondle is to touch. Everything sounds Yiddish to you. Far-fetched, far-flung..." "Farflung is Yiddish." "No," Arnie says, "it's not. ...more
Nathan Englander, What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank

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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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