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Women Writers of Yiddish Literature: Critical Essays

By Rosemary Horowitz (editor)

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Paperback:

9780786468812 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, April 24, 2015, cover price $45.00

Yiddishkeit: Jewish Vernacular & the New Land

By Paul Buhle (editor), Neal Gabler (introduced by), Hershl Hartman (contributor) and Harvey Pekar (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780810997493 | Bilingual edition (Harry N Abrams Inc, September 1, 2011), cover price $29.95

Tevye the Dairyman and the Railroad Stories

By Hillel Halkin (trans)

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Prebinding:

9781439507124 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, June 26, 2008), cover price $24.95

The Shtetl

Short novels by Aleichem, Aksenfeld, and Moykher-Sforim, stories by Peretz, Rabbi Nahkman, and Der Nister, religious writings, and Hassidic yarns depict Jewish life in the shtetl from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. Reprint.

By Joachim Neugroschel (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780879513566 | Reissue edition (Overlook Pr, July 1, 1989), cover price $35.00

Paperback:

9781585679478 | Reprint edition (Overlook Pr, April 28, 2009), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Short novels by Aleichem, Aksenfeld, and Moykher-Sforim, stories by Peretz, Rabbi Nahkman, and Der Nister, religious writings, and Hassidic yarns depict Jewish life in the shtetl from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century.

American Yiddish Poetry: A Bilingual Anthology

Provides information on the Yiddish language and literature, describes poetic forms, and gathers poems in Yiddish and English by seven of the best Jewish American poets

By Benjamin Harshav

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Hardcover:

9780520048423 | Univ of California Pr, December 1, 1986, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: Provides information on the Yiddish language and literature, describes poetic forms, and gathers poems in Yiddish and English by seven of the best Jewish American poets

Paperback:

9780804751704 | Bilingual edition (Stanford Univ Pr, October 8, 2007), cover price $19.95

Radiant Days, Haunted Nights: Great Tales from the Treasury of Yiddish Folk Literature

An anthology of Yiddish folktales, previously unavailable in English and translated by a finalist for a 2001 National Jewish Book Award, encompasses a wide range of traditional folk literature from its origins to the modern era.

By Joachim Neugroschel (editor)

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Hardcover:

9781585677313 | Overlook Pr, November 17, 2005, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: An anthology of Yiddish folktales, previously unavailable in English and translated by a finalist for a 2001 National Jewish Book Award, encompasses a wide range of traditional folk literature from its origins to the modern era.

Paperback:

9781585677894 | Overlook Pr, August 30, 2006, cover price $21.95

The Yiddish Presence in European Literature: Inspiration And Interaction; Selected Papers arising from the Fourth and Fifth mendel Friedam Conferences in Yiddish

By Ritchie Robertson (editor) and Joseph Sherman (editor)

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Hardcover:

9781900755832 | Legenda, December 1, 2005, cover price $120.00

Kentucky

Product Description: An epic poem about life in America in the early 20th century, as perceived by a Jewish immigrant.Kentucky is the first major work in Yiddish literature to present America as its primary theme. The long epic poem paints a rich picture of life in Kentucky just after the Civil War...read more

By Gertrude W. Dubrovsky (trans) and I. J. Schwartz

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Hardcover:

9780817304935 | Univ of Alabama Pr, November 1, 1990, cover price $35.00

Paperback:

9780817351434 | Univ of Alabama Pr, December 5, 2004, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: An epic poem about life in America in the early 20th century, as perceived by a Jewish immigrant.

The Dybbuk and Other Writings

The play about Russian Jewish life is joined by stories and a diary written while delivering supplies to Jewish communities in World War I

By S. Ansky, David G. Roskies (editor) and Golda Werman (trans)

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Paperback:

9780805210705 | Reissue edition (Schocken Books, October 1, 1996), cover price $14.00

9780805210118 | Reprint edition (Pantheon Books, September 1, 1993), cover price $13.00 | About this edition: The play about Russian Jewish life is joined by stories and a diary written while delivering supplies to Jewish communities in World War I

The I. L. Peretz Reader

By Ruth R. Wisse (editor)

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Paperback:

9780300092455 | Yale Univ Pr, July 11, 2002, cover price $26.00

The Dybbuk and the Yiddish Imagination: A Haunted Reader

Product Description: The Dybbuk is arguably the most famous play in the Yiddish repertoire and plays an intrinsic part in the cultural system that created the Yiddish imagination. Along with this new translation, this text offers a variety of literary works spanning the 17th to the 20th centuries. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Joachim Neugroschel (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780815628712 | Syracuse Univ Pr, January 1, 2001, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: The Dybbuk is arguably the most famous play in the Yiddish repertoire and plays an intrinsic part in the cultural system that created the Yiddish imagination.

9780815606512 | Syracuse Univ Pr, November 1, 2000, cover price $49.95

Against the Apocalypse: Responses to Catastrophe in Modern Jewish Culture

Product Description: This text documents a virtually unknown chapter in the history of the refusal of Jews throughout the ages to surrender. The author employs wide-ranging scholarship to the Holocaust and the memories associated with it, in affirmation of both continuities and violent endings. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By David G. Roskies

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Hardcover:

9780674009158 | Harvard Univ Pr, May 1, 1984, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Looks at the Holocaust as a part of the history of Jewish persecutions and shows how literature and culture were used to bridge these catastrophes

Paperback:

9780815606154 | Syracuse Univ Pr, November 1, 1999, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: This text documents a virtually unknown chapter in the history of the refusal of Jews throughout the ages to surrender.

9780674009165 | Harvard Univ Pr, March 1, 1986, cover price $12.50 | About this edition: Looks at the Holocaust as a part of the history of Jewish persecutions and shows how literature and culture were used to bridge these catastrophes

The Meaning of Yiddish

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By Benjamin Harshav

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Hardcover:

9780520059474 | Univ of California Pr, May 1, 1990, cover price $85.00

Paperback:

9780804735759 | Stanford Univ Pr, August 1, 1999, cover price $25.95

The Origins of Modern Literary Yiddish

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By Dov-Ber Kerler

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Hardcover:

9780198151661 | Clarendon Pr, July 29, 1999, cover price $250.00

Yiddish Language & Culture: Then & Now

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By Leonard J. Greenspoon (editor)

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Hardcover:

9781881871255 | Fordham Univ Pr, June 1, 1999, cover price $30.00

A Dybbuk: The Dybbuk Melody and Other Themes and Variations

A play and tales of the supernatural (view table of contents)

By S. Ansky, Tony Kushner (editor) and Joachim Neugroschel (trans)

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9781559361378 | Theatre Communications Group, April 1, 1998, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A play and tales of the supernatural

A Dybbuk: And Other Tales of the Supernatural

A play and tales of the supernatural

By S. Ansky (trans), Tony Kushner (editor) and Joachim Neugroschel

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Hardcover:

9781559361460 | Theatre Communications Group, December 1, 1997, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A play and tales of the supernatural

Realism, Caricature and Bias: The Fiction of Mendele Mocher Sefarim

By David Aberbach

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Hardcover:

9781874774075 | Littman Library of Jewish, April 1, 1997, cover price $29.50

Paperback:

9781874774082, titled "Realism, Caricature, and Bias: The Fiction of Mendele Mocher Sefarim" | Littman Library of Jewish, June 1, 1993, cover price $26.95

Modern Yiddish Culture: The Story of the Yiddish Language Movement

By Emanuel Goldsmith

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Paperback:

9780823217663 | 2nd rev edition (Fordham Univ Pr, April 1, 1997), cover price $17.50

Modern Yiddish Culture: The Story of the Yiddish Language Movement

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By Emanuel S. Goldsmith

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Paperback:

9780823216956 | Exp sub edition (Fordham Univ Pr, January 1, 1997), cover price $40.00

9780933503953 | Sure Sellers Inc, May 1, 1987, cover price $10.95

Tevye the Dairyman and the Railroad Stories

Tells the stories of a milkman and his daughters and a salesman's encounters with fellow Jews while riding the train

By Sholem Aleichem

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Hardcover:

9780805240269 | Schocken Books, July 1, 1987, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Tells the stories of a milkman and his daughters and a salesman's encounters with fellow Jews while riding the train

Paperback:

9780805210699 | Schocken Books, October 1, 1996, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Tells the stories of a milkman and his daughters and a salesman's encounters with fellow Jews while riding the train

9780805209051 | Schocken Books, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Tells the stories of a milkman and his daughters and a salesman's encounters with fellow Jews while riding the train

Keys to the Garden: New Israeli Writing