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Yiddishlands
This lively and irreverent memoir explores the settings where Yiddish—a language of song, rebellion, and eternal longing—has thrived: in the cabaret and café, the kitchen and …
I Want to Fall Like This
This is a collection of the poetry of Rukhl Fishman, the youngest and only American-born Yiddish poet of the ""Yung Yisroel"". This group of poets and prose writers from across the …
Against the Apocalypse
This text documents a virtually unknown chapter in the history of the refusal of Jews throughout the ages to surrender. The author employs wide-ranging scholarship to the Holocaust …
The Jewish Search for a Usable Past
"Roskies has illuminated a path to further self-understanding of who Jews are and the type of bridges used to reach a usable past." —Lifestyles Magazine"[The author has] an …
Voices from the Warsaw Ghetto
The powerful writings and art of Jews living in the Warsaw Ghetto Hidden in metal containers and buried underground during World War II, these works from the Warsaw Ghetto record …
Yiddishlands
This lively and irreverent memoir explores the settings where Yiddish-a language of song, rebellion, and eternal longing-has thrived: in the cabaret and cafe, the kitchen and …
Arguing the Modern Jewish Canon
Over the past four decades Ruth R. Wisse has been a leading scholar of Yiddish and Jewish literary studies in North America, and one of our most fearless public intellectuals on …
Raising Secular Jews
This unique literary study of Yiddish children’s periodicals casts new light on secular Yiddish schools in America in the first half of the twentieth century. Rejecting the …
Holocaust Literature
What is Holocaust literature? When does it begin and how is it changing? Is there an essential core that consists of diaries, eyewitness accounts of the concentration camps, and …
The Dybbuk and Other Writings
This volume presents The Dybbuk, S. Ansky's well-known drama of mystical passion and demonic possession, along with little-known works of his autobiographical and fantastical prose …
The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Volume 9
The Posen Library’s groundbreaking anthology series—called “a feast of Jewish culture, in ten volumes” by the Chronicle of Higher Education—explores in Volume 9 global Jewish …
Holocaust Literature
What is Holocaust literature? When does it begin and how is it changing? Is there an essential core that consists of diaries, eyewitness accounts of the concentration camps, and …