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
Shosha
The Magician of Lublin
The Slave
The Family Moskat
The Yiddish Policemen's Union
In My Father's Court
Enemies: A Love Story
Tevye the Dairyman and the Railroad Stories
Satan in Goray
Gimpel the Fool and Other Stories
The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer
Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books
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
76 books — 42 voters
At Any Cost by Rebecca  RosenbergNeil Simon's Memoirs by Neil SimonMen As Friends by Irwin EpsteinBroadway, Schrafft's and Seeded Rye by Lyla Blake WardSiegel and Shuster's Funnyman by Thomas Andrae
Jewish New York (nonfiction)
101 books — 7 voters

The Jewish Image in American Film by Lester D. FriedmanEl salón de los artistas exiliados en California by Núria AñóJewish Science Fiction and Fantasy of the 1960s and 70s by Valerie Estelle FrankelMen As Friends by Irwin EpsteinAmerican Jewish Filmmakers by David Desser
Books on Jewish Films
40 books — 5 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

Stefan Kanfer
Marlon’s worldly possessions went up for auction at Christie’s New York showroom a year after his death. Among the 320 objects were some knickknacks (Marlon preferred the Yiddish word chotchkes).
Stefan Kanfer, Somebody: The Reckless Life and Remarkable Career of Marlon Brando

Isaac Bashevis Singer
What concrete steps can I take now?" I asked the voice, and it replied: "Go to a house of prayer and pray." "Without faith?" I countered, and the voice said: "You have more faith than you know. ...more
Isaac Bashevis Singer, The Penitent

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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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