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  • Found Treasures

    Stories by Yiddish Women Writers

    Edited by Frieda Forman, Ethel Raicus, Sarah Silberstein Swartz ...
    The first of its kind, this anthology showcases women's writing previously available only in Yiddish. A book of voices from an almost forgotten female heritage, it features eighteen writers who speak powerfully of the events that shaped their lives; the d ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Exile Book of Yiddish Women Writers

    An Anthology of Stories That Looks to the Past So We Might See the Future

    Edited by Frieda Johles Forman ...
    Series series The Exile Book of
    Presenting a comprehensive collection of influential Yiddish women writers with new translations, this anthology explores the major transformations and upheavals of the 20th century. Short stories, excerpts, and personal essays are included from 13 writers, and focus on such subjects as family life; sexual awakening; longings for independence, education, and creative expression; the life in Europe ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • On the Waves of Destiny

    Selected Writings

    by Lili Berger ...
    Lili Berger wrote about the most traumatic and transformative developments of the twentieth century to which she herself was an eyewitness. On the Waves of Destiny presents an anthology that reflects her early life in interwar Poland during the rise of Hitler, her Second World War activities in occupied Paris where she was active in the Communist resistance, and her sojourn in Communist Poland ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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  • Yiddish

    The Biography of a Language

    by Miriam Weinstein ...
    This first-ever biography on Yiddish is “a charming and highly readable history of the language” that “recreates the sound of a world . . . gone forever” (The Washington Post)For a thousand years Yiddish, was the glue that held a people together. Through the intimacies of daily use, it linked European Jews with their heroic past, their spiritual universe, their increasingly far-flung relations. In ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • No Joke

    Making Jewish Humor

    by Ruth R. Wisse ...
    Series series Library of Jewish Ideas
    Humor is the most celebrated of all Jewish responses to modernity. In this book, Ruth Wisse evokes and applauds the genius of spontaneous Jewish joking--as well as the brilliance of comic masterworks by writers like Heinrich Heine, Sholem Aleichem, Isaac Babel, S. Y. Agnon, Isaac Bashevis Singer, and Philip Roth. At the same time, Wisse draws attention to the precarious conditions that call Jewish ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • Who Will Write Our History?

    Rediscovering a Hidden Archive from the Warsaw Ghetto

    by Samuel D. Kassow ...
    In 1940, in the Jewish ghetto of Nazi-occupied Warsaw, the Polish historian Emanuel Ringelblum established a clandestine scholarly organization called the Oyneg Shabes to record the experiences of the ghetto's inhabitants. For three years, members of the Oyneb Shabes worked in secret to chronicle the lives of hundereds of thousands as they suffered starvation, disease, and deportation by the Nazis ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • A Kidnapped West

    The Tragedy of Central Europe

    by Milan Kundera ...
    Translated by Linda Asher ...
    “We should welcome the context Kundera gives for the struggles between Russia and Europe, and the plight of those caught between them. His defense of small languages, small cultures, and small nations feels pressing.”—Claire Messud, Harper's Magazine“Kundera focuses on the relationship of Europe’s central ‘small nations’ like Czechoslovakia and Ukraine to Western culture and argues that their ... Read more

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  • In the Shadow of the Shtetl

    Small-Town Jewish Life in Soviet Ukraine

    by Jeffrey Veidlinger ...
    A history based on interviews with hundreds of Ukrainian Jews who survived both Hitler and Stalin, recounting experiences ordinary and extraordinary.The story of how the Holocaust decimated Jewish life in the shtetls of Eastern Europe is well known. Still, thousands of Jews in these small towns survived the war and returned afterward to rebuild their communities. The recollections of some four ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Worlds of Sholem Aleichem

    The Remarkable Life and Afterlife of the Man Who Created Tevye

    by Jeremy Dauber ...
    Series series Jewish Encounters Series
    Part of the Jewish Encounters seriesThe first comprehensive biography of one of the most beloved authors of all time: the creator of Tevye the Dairyman, the collection of stories that inspired Fiddler on the Roof.Novelist, playwright, journalist, essayist, and editor, Sholem Aleichem was one of the founding giants of modern Yiddish literature. The creator of a pantheon of characters who have been ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • City of Rogues and Schnorrers

    Russia's Jews and the Myth of Old Odessa

    by Jarrod Tanny ...
    "Outstanding . . . A delightfully written work of serious scholarship." — Jewish Book WorldOld Odessa, on the Black Sea, gained notoriety as a legendary city of Jewish gangsters and swindlers, a frontier boomtown mythologized for the adventurers, criminals, and merrymakers who flocked there to seek easy wealth and lead lives of debauchery and excess. Odessa is also famed for the brand of Jewish ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Nightmare of Reason

    A Life of Franz Kafka

    by Ernst Pawel ...
    A comprehensive and interpretative biography of Franz Kafka that is both a monumental work of scholarship and a vivid, lively evocation of Kafka's world. ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • On the Eve

    The Jews of Europe Before the Second World War

    by Bernard Wasserstein ...
    On the Eve is the portrait of a world on the brink of annihilation. In this provocative book, Bernard Wasserstein presents a new and disturbing interpretation of the collapse of European Jewish civilization even before the Nazi onslaught.In the 1930s, as Europe spiraled toward the Second World War, the continent’s Jews faced an existential crisis. The harsh realities of the age—anti-Semitic ... Read more

    $15.99 USD