Yiddish Books


Tevye the Dairyman and The Railroad Stories (Library of Yiddish Classics)Tevye the Dairyman and The Railroad Stories (Library of Yiddish Classics)
Best Price: $7.50
This book was purchased as part of a study prior to a production of 'A Fiddler on the Roof'. It...
The Dybbuk and Other Writings by S. AnskyThe Dybbuk and Other Writings by S. Ansky
Best Price: $13.84
A Dybbuk is a haunting and beautiful and haunting combination between a love story and a ghost...
Found Treasures: Stories by Yiddish Women WritersFound Treasures: Stories by Yiddish Women Writers
Best Price: $15.53
The first of its kind, this anthology showcases women's writing previously available only in...
The I. L. Peretz ReaderThe I. L. Peretz Reader
Best Price: $13.84
Isaac Leybush Peretz (1852-1915) is one of the most influential figures of modern Jewish...
Treasury of Jewish Love: Poems, Quotations & Proverbs : In Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladino and English (Treasury of Love)Treasury of Jewish Love: Poems, Quotations & Proverbs : In Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladino and English (Treasury of Love)
Best Price: $3.27


Rabbi Nachman's StoriesRabbi Nachman's Stories
Best Price: $20.95
A fantastic book. Very inspiring. I could not stop reading it. It had so much knowledge and...
From the Fair: The Autobiography of Sholom AleichemFrom the Fair: The Autobiography of Sholom Aleichem
As Curt Leviant in his excellent introduction makes clear Sholom Aleichem thought this to be his...
The Meaning of Yiddish (Contraversions: Jews and Other Differenc)The Meaning of Yiddish (Contraversions: Jews and Other Differenc)
Best Price: $22.92
In The Meaning Of Yiddish, Benjamin Harshav (Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Professor of Hebrew and...
The Penguin Book of Modern Yiddish VerseThe Penguin Book of Modern Yiddish Verse
The last time my friend from Vilna visited, in 1993, I shared this book with her, purchased a...
Handbook of American-Jewish Literature: An Analytical Guide to Topics, Themes, and SourcesHandbook of American-Jewish Literature: An Analytical Guide to Topics, Themes, and Sources
Best Price: $133.95
Focusing on the Jewish contribution to American writing, this guide offers a comprehensive view...


Radiant Days, Haunted Nights: Great Tales from the Treasury of Yiddish LiteratureRadiant Days, Haunted Nights: Great Tales from the Treasury of Yiddish Literature
Best Price: $0.98
A unique and rich anthology of Yiddish folk tales that have never before been available in...
Yiddish Wisdom: Yiddishe ChochmaYiddish Wisdom: Yiddishe Chochma
Best Price: $1.95
This is a great book not just for people who want to hear some of Yiddish culture's warm but...
Keys to the Garden: New Israeli WritingKeys to the Garden: New Israeli Writing
Best Price: $12.00
This book is very important for it includes the Sephardim in Israel's literary history. Many...
The Heart Stirring SermonThe Heart Stirring Sermon
Best Price: $12.12
Ineffable Name Of God: PoemsIneffable Name Of God: Poems
Best Price: $16.44
This book is a parallel- language edition of the sixty- six poems Abraham Joshua Heschel wrote...

The Family Mashber: A Novel by "Der Nister"/"the Hidden One"The Family Mashber: A Novel by "Der Nister"/"the Hidden One"
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Journey to a Nineteenth-Century Shtetl: The Memoirs of Yekhezkel Kotik (Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology)Journey to a Nineteenth-Century Shtetl: The Memoirs of Yekhezkel Kotik (Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology)
Best Price: $41.95
My great great grandparents lived in Kamenets. Their children spread thruout that region before...
A. Sutzkever: Selected Poetry and ProseA. Sutzkever: Selected Poetry and Prose
The work of A. Sutzkever, one of the major twentieth-century masters of verse and the last of...
The Schlemiel Comes to AmericaThe Schlemiel Comes to America
Best Price: $32.68
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A Little Love in Big Manhattan: Two Yiddish PoetsA Little Love in Big Manhattan: Two Yiddish Poets
Best Price: $15.98

A Treasury of Yiddish Stories: Revised and Updated EditionA Treasury of Yiddish Stories: Revised and Updated Edition
This anthology contains the work of the most well- known of Yiddish storytellers from Shalom...
The Schlemiel as Metaphor, Revised and Enlarged Edition: Studies in Yiddish and American Jewish FictionThe Schlemiel as Metaphor, Revised and Enlarged Edition: Studies in Yiddish and American Jewish Fiction
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The certainty that deep down we are all schlemiels is perhaps what makes America love an inept...
I Keep Recalling: The Holocaust Poems of Jacob GlatsteinI Keep Recalling: The Holocaust Poems of Jacob Glatstein
Best Price: $35.10
Book of Fables: The Yiddish Fable Collection of Reb Moshe Wallich Frankfurt Am Main, 1697 (Jewish Folklore and Anthropology)Book of Fables: The Yiddish Fable Collection of Reb Moshe Wallich Frankfurt Am Main, 1697 (Jewish Folklore and Anthropology)
Best Price: $19.30
Against the Apocalypse: Responses to Catastrophe in Modern Jewish CultureAgainst the Apocalypse: Responses to Catastrophe in Modern Jewish Culture
This is from the back jacket of the book, "The Holocaust in its enormity , has been viewed...

Paper Bridges: Selected Poems of Kadya MolodowskyPaper Bridges: Selected Poems of Kadya Molodowsky
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Kadya Molodowsky contributed for over half a century her part in that 'Paper Bridge' she hoped...
Poet of the Ghetto: Morris RosenfeldPoet of the Ghetto: Morris RosenfeldThe Homeless Imagination in the Fiction of Israel Joshua Singer (Jewish Literature and Culture)The Homeless Imagination in the Fiction of Israel Joshua Singer (Jewish Literature and Culture)
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God Hid His Face: Selected PoemsGod Hid His Face: Selected Poems
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The Yiddish Presence in European Literature: Inspiration and Interaction; Selected Papers arising from the Fourth and Fifth Mendel Friedam Conferences ... in Yiddish) (Legenda Studies in Yiddish)The Yiddish Presence in European Literature: Inspiration and Interaction; Selected Papers arising from the Fourth and Fifth Mendel Friedam Conferences ... in Yiddish) (Legenda Studies in Yiddish)
Best Price: $69.00
D?frichant un domaine peu connu, cet ouvrage inverse la probl?matique courante en montrant...

Vagabond Stars: A World History of Yiddish Theater (Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art)Vagabond Stars: A World History of Yiddish Theater (Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art)
Best Price: $13.89
Great Yiddish Writers of the Twentieth CenturyGreat Yiddish Writers of the Twentieth Century
Best Price: $123.51
City of Palaces: PoemsCity of Palaces: Poems
Best Price: $19.95
This is a fascinating look at a little-known side of Mexico from the perspective of a...
Kentucky (Judaic Studies Series)Kentucky (Judaic Studies Series)
Best Price: $12.00
Women of the Shtetl: Through the Eyes of Y. L. PeretzWomen of the Shtetl: Through the Eyes of Y. L. Peretz

Selected Works of Mendele Moykher-Sforim (Three Great Classic Writers of Modern Yiddish Literature, Vol 1)Selected Works of Mendele Moykher-Sforim (Three Great Classic Writers of Modern Yiddish Literature, Vol 1)
Best Price: $110.65
This book contains some great works by Abramovitsh, and is a pleasant way to discover him. The...
An Anthology of Modern Yiddish Poetry/BilingualAn Anthology of Modern Yiddish Poetry/Bilingual
Best Price: $26.95
Gender and Text in Modern Hebrew & Yiddish Literature (The Jewish Theological Seminary)Gender and Text in Modern Hebrew & Yiddish Literature (The Jewish Theological Seminary)
Best Price: $12.76
In recent years, gender studies and feminist thinking have had a growing influence on the study...
Yiddish Writers Almanac: Year After YearYiddish Writers Almanac: Year After YearA Distant Voice: An Autobiography of Samuel LewinA Distant Voice: An Autobiography of Samuel Lewin

Wyszkowo, a Shtetl on the Bug RiverWyszkowo, a Shtetl on the Bug RiverAmerican Yiddish Poetry: A Bilingual AnthologyAmerican Yiddish Poetry: A Bilingual Anthology
Best Price: $100.00
This remarkable volume introduces to the large English-speaking audience what is probably the...
The Bloody Hoax (Jewish Literature and Culture)The Bloody Hoax (Jewish Literature and Culture)
Best Price: $17.50
This novel, not the most subtle piece of writing in literature, nevertheless deserves a read...
The Politics of Interpretation: Alterity and Ideology in Old Yiddish StudiesThe Politics of Interpretation: Alterity and Ideology in Old Yiddish Studies
Best Price: $20.99
The Field of Yiddish: Studies in Language, Folklore, and LiteratureThe Field of Yiddish: Studies in Language, Folklore, and Literature
Best Price: $12.95

Tevye the Dairyman and the Railroad Stories (Library of Yiddish Classics)Tevye the Dairyman and the Railroad Stories (Library of Yiddish Classics)
Best Price: $24.95
I.L. Peretz and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture (The Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies)I.L. Peretz and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture (The Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies)
Best Price: $17.00
Mamme Dear: A Turn-of-the-Century Collection of Model Yiddish LettersMamme Dear: A Turn-of-the-Century Collection of Model Yiddish Letters
Best Price: $8.95
Letter-writing manuals were once popularly used in Europe to help people construct socially...
Shakespeare on the American Yiddish Stage (Studies Theatre Hist & Culture)Shakespeare on the American Yiddish Stage (Studies Theatre Hist & Culture)
Best Price: $32.95
On one level this is a carefully researched study of how Shakespeare's plays were translated,...
Menke SonnetsMenke Sonnets
Best Price: $159.00

The Far Side of the River: Selected Short Stories (Mosaic Fiction Series)The Far Side of the River: Selected Short Stories (Mosaic Fiction Series)Post-Shoa Religious Metaphors: The Image of God in the Poetry of Nelly SachsPost-Shoa Religious Metaphors: The Image of God in the Poetry of Nelly Sachs
Best Price: $57.95
All My Yesterdays Were Steps: Selected Poems of Dora TeitelboimAll My Yesterdays Were Steps: Selected Poems of Dora Teitelboim
Best Price: $22.50
Passionate Women, Passive Men: Suicide in Yiddish Literature (S U N Y Series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture)Passionate Women, Passive Men: Suicide in Yiddish Literature (S U N Y Series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture)
Best Price: $8.00
Lead Pencil: Stories and Sketches by Berl BotwinikLead Pencil: Stories and Sketches by Berl Botwinik

The ShtetlThe Shtetl
Best Price: $19.35
"The initiated and the uninitiated . . . both will benefit from the selection and quality...
Yiddish Language and Culture: Then and Now. (Studies in Jewish Civilization)Yiddish Language and Culture: Then and Now. (Studies in Jewish Civilization)
Best Price: $14.95
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