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
The Family Mashber by Der NisterArguing with the Storm by Rhea TregebovPaper Bridges by Kadya MolodowskyThe Book of Paradise by Itzik MangerTevye the Milkman by Sholom Aleichem
Originally Written in Yiddish
57 books — 12 voters
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 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
888 books — 315 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 Dressmaker's Mirror by Susan Weiss LiebmanAt Any Cost by Rebecca  RosenbergNeil Simon's Memoirs by Neil SimonThe Jews of Harlem by Jeffrey S GurockThe Tourist's Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City by Henry H Sapoznik
Jewish New York (nonfiction)
105 books — 12 voters
Men As Friends by Irwin EpsteinJewish Science Fiction and Fantasy of the 1960s and 70s by Valerie Estelle FrankelEl salón de los artistas exiliados en California by Núria AñóThe Jewish Image in American Film by Lester D. FriedmanJews and Sex by Nathan Abrams
Books on Jewish Films
40 books — 5 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

Amy Fellner Dominy
I don't care if you care, I retorted. But in my religion, we're taught to admit our mistakes and to apologize for them...Oh, and there's one other thing I'm sorry about, I added. I should've spit in your eye and called you a szhlob weeks ago. ...more
Amy Fellner Dominy, OyMG

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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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