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Yiddish Books
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Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All of Its Moods – The Essential Guide to Jewish Heritage, Survival, and European Folklore (P.S.)
by (shelved 23 times as yiddish)
avg rating 3.64 — 1,515 ratings — published 2005
The Brothers Ashkenazi (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as yiddish)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,683 ratings — published 1936
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as yiddish)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,361,517 ratings — published 1956
Shosha (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as yiddish)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,945 ratings — published 1978
The Magician of Lublin (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as yiddish)
avg rating 3.91 — 3,886 ratings — published 1960
The Slave (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as yiddish)
avg rating 4.23 — 4,141 ratings — published 1962
The Family Moskat (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as yiddish)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,913 ratings — published 1950
Tevye the Dairyman and the Railroad Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as yiddish)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,520 ratings — published 1894
The Yiddish Policemen's Union (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as yiddish)
avg rating 3.72 — 80,255 ratings — published 2007
In My Father's Court (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as yiddish)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,786 ratings — published 1956
Enemies: A Love Story (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as yiddish)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,753 ratings — published 1966
Satan in Goray (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as yiddish)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,808 ratings — published 1935
Gimpel the Fool and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as yiddish)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,439 ratings — published 1953
The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as yiddish)
avg rating 4.38 — 2,230 ratings — published 1982
Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as yiddish)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,256 ratings — published 2004
How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as yiddish)
avg rating 3.68 — 159 ratings — published 2020
The Joys of Yiddish (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as yiddish)
avg rating 4.25 — 682 ratings — published 1968
The Zelmenyaners: A Family Saga (New Yiddish Library Series)
by (shelved 8 times as yiddish)
avg rating 3.86 — 162 ratings — published 1931
The Family Mashber (New York Review Books Classics)
by (shelved 8 times as yiddish)
avg rating 4.05 — 132 ratings — published 1939
Just Say Nu: Yiddish for Every Occasion (When English Just Won't Do)
by (shelved 8 times as yiddish)
avg rating 3.83 — 133 ratings — published 2007
Modern English-Yiddish, Yiddish-English Dictionary (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as yiddish)
avg rating 4.17 — 58 ratings — published 1968
The Dybbuk (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as yiddish)
avg rating 3.93 — 390 ratings — published 1914
Yoshe Kalb (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as yiddish)
avg rating 3.97 — 376 ratings — published 1931
Yiddish Folktales (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as yiddish)
avg rating 4.12 — 215 ratings — published 1988
Words on Fire: The Unfinished Story of Yiddish (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as yiddish)
avg rating 4.11 — 81 ratings — published 2004
Tevye the Milkman (Audio CD)
by (shelved 6 times as yiddish)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,002 ratings — published 1894
The Book Rescuer: How a Mensch from Massachusetts Saved Yiddish Literature for Generations to Come (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as yiddish)
avg rating 4.26 — 563 ratings — published 2019
The Book of Paradise: The Wonderful Adventures of Shmuel-Aba Abervo (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as yiddish)
avg rating 3.65 — 153 ratings — published 1939
Shadows on the Hudson (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as yiddish)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,288 ratings — published 1957
La famiglia Karnowski (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as yiddish)
avg rating 4.38 — 3,888 ratings — published 1943
It Could Always Be Worse: A Yiddish Folk Tale (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as yiddish)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,075 ratings — published 1976
Yiddishkeit: Jewish Vernacular and the New Land (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as yiddish)
avg rating 3.69 — 195 ratings — published 2011
The God of Vengeance (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as yiddish)
avg rating 3.91 — 244 ratings — published 1907
The Dance of the Demons (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as yiddish)
avg rating 3.78 — 208 ratings — published 1936
American Yiddish Poetry: A Bilingual Anthology (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as yiddish)
avg rating 4.33 — 12 ratings — published 1986
The Rise of Modern Yiddish Culture (Russian and East European Studies)
by (shelved 5 times as yiddish)
avg rating 4.00 — 11 ratings — published 2005
Adventures in Yiddishland: Postvernacular Language and Culture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as yiddish)
avg rating 4.23 — 35 ratings — published 2005
Canto del popolo yiddish messo a morte (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as yiddish)
avg rating 4.21 — 70 ratings — published 1951
If You Can't Say Anything Nice, Say It in Yiddish (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as yiddish)
avg rating 3.86 — 80 ratings — published 2006
Moshkeleh the Thief: A Rediscovered Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as yiddish)
avg rating 4.12 — 99 ratings — published
Revolutionary Yiddishland: A History of Jewish Radicalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as yiddish)
avg rating 4.29 — 343 ratings — published 2009
Wandering Stars (Audio CD)
by (shelved 4 times as yiddish)
avg rating 3.91 — 298 ratings — published 1909
Yiddish: An Introduction to the Language, Literature and Culture, Vol. 1 (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as yiddish)
avg rating 4.28 — 29 ratings — published 1995
The Travels and Adventures of Benjamin the Third (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as yiddish)
avg rating 3.51 — 75 ratings — published 1878
Yiddish Civilisation: The Rise and Fall of a Forgotten Nation (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as yiddish)
avg rating 3.92 — 259 ratings — published 2005
Modern Yiddish Culture: The Story of the Yiddish Language Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as yiddish)
avg rating 3.83 — 6 ratings — published 1987
Basic Yiddish (Routledge Grammar Workbooks)
by (shelved 4 times as yiddish)
avg rating 4.43 — 7 ratings — published 2011
The Story of Yiddish: How a Mish-Mosh of Languages Saved the Jews (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as yiddish)
avg rating 3.29 — 147 ratings — published 2007
The Manor (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as yiddish)
avg rating 4.10 — 683 ratings — published 1967
“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).”
― Somebody: The Reckless Life and Remarkable Career of Marlon Brando
― Somebody: The Reckless Life and Remarkable Career of Marlon Brando
“My letter,” Bella said in Yiddish that was a bit garbled, but perfectly understandable. “I want my letter back and she won’t give it to me. Why doesn’t she understand my English?”
“That’s Yiddish you’re speaking,” Yetta said.
“No, it’s not,” Bella said irritably. “It’s the English I learned in the factory.”
“It’s Yiddish! You must have learned Yiddish because there were so many of us Jews in the factory. Listen”—Yetta switched languages—“English sounds like this.”
Bella stared up at Yetta, her eyes seeming to grow in her pale face. “I don’t even know what Yiddish is,” she said, in Yiddish…..
“Bella learned Yiddish by mistake,” Yetta said. “She thought she was speaking English.”
“Wish I could learn a new language just by mistake,” Jane said. “I’ve been studying Italian for weeks, and it’s totally useless.”
― Uprising
“That’s Yiddish you’re speaking,” Yetta said.
“No, it’s not,” Bella said irritably. “It’s the English I learned in the factory.”
“It’s Yiddish! You must have learned Yiddish because there were so many of us Jews in the factory. Listen”—Yetta switched languages—“English sounds like this.”
Bella stared up at Yetta, her eyes seeming to grow in her pale face. “I don’t even know what Yiddish is,” she said, in Yiddish…..
“Bella learned Yiddish by mistake,” Yetta said. “She thought she was speaking English.”
“Wish I could learn a new language just by mistake,” Jane said. “I’ve been studying Italian for weeks, and it’s totally useless.”
― Uprising
