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The Yiddish Policemen's Union
by Michael Chabon
For sixty years, Jewish refugees and their descendants have prospered in the Federal District of Sitka, a "temporary" safe haven created in the wake of revelations of the Holocaust and the shocking 1948 collapse of the fledgling state of Israel. Proud, grateful, and longing to be American, the Jews of the Sitka District have created their own little world in the Alaskan panhandle, a vibrant, gritty, soulful, and... (more)
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Notes From The Midnight Driver
by Jordan Sonnenblick
16-year-old Alex decides to get even. His parents are separated, his father is dating his former third-grade teacher, and being 16 isn't easy, especially when it comes to girls. Instead of revenge though, Alex ends up in trouble with the law and is ordered to do community service at a senior center where he is assigned to Solomon Lewis, a "difficult" senior with a lot of gusto, advice for Alex, and a puzzling (yet... (more)
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Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All of Its Moods (P.S.)
by Michael Wex
A delightful excursion through the Yiddish language, the culture it defines and serves, and the fine art of complaint Throughout history, Jews around the world have had plenty of reasons to lament. And for a thousand years, they've had the perfect language for it. Rich in color, expressiveness, and complexity, Yiddish has proven incredibly useful and durable. Its wonderful phrases and idioms impeccably... (more)
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Outwitting History
The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books
by Aaron Lansky
In 1980, a twenty-three-year-old student named Aaron Lansky set out to rescue the world’s abandoned Yiddish books before it was too late. Twenty-five years and one and a half million books later, he’s still in the midst of a great adventure. Filled with poignant and often laugh-out-loud tales from Lansky’s travels across the country as he collected books from older Jewish immigrants—books their own children had no... (more)
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The Joys of Yiddish
by Leo Calvin Rosten
Do you know when to cry Mazel tov -- and when to avoid it like the plague? Did you know that Oy! is not a word, but a vocabulary with 29 distinct variations, sighed, cried, howled, or moaned, employed to express anything from ecstasy to horror? Here are words heard 'round the English-speaking world: chutzpa, or gall, brazen nerve, effrontery, "...that quality enshrined in a man who, having killed his mother... (more)
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Yiddish with Dick and Jane
by Barbara Davilman, Ellis Weiner
Jane is in real estate. Today is Saturday. Jane has an open house. She must schlep the Open House signs to the car. See Jane schlep . Schlep , Jane. Schlep . Schlep, schlep, schlep. In text that captures the unque rhythms of the original Dick and Jane readers, and in 35 all-new illustrations, a story unfolds in which Dick and Jane--hero and heroine of the classic books for children that... (more)
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The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer
by Isaac Bashevis Singer
The forty-seven stories in this collection, selected by Singer himself out of nearly one hundred and fifty, range from the publication of his now-classic first collection, Gimpel the Fool, in 1957, until 1981. They include supernatural tales, slices of life from Warsaw and the shtetls of Eastern Europe, and stories of the Jews displaced from that world to the New World, from the East Side of New York to... (more)
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The New Joys of Yiddish
by Leo Calvin Rosten, Lawrence Bush
Enjoy the most comprehensive and hilariously entertaining lexicon of the colorful and deeply expressive language of Yiddish. With the recent renaissance of interest in Yiddish, and in keeping with a language that embodies the variety and vibrancy of life itself, The New Joys of Yiddish brings Leo Rosten’s masterful work up to date. Revised for the first time by Lawrence Bush, in close consultation with Rosten’s... (more)
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Beautiful Yetta
The Yiddish Chicken
by Daniel Pinkwater
Yetta, beautiful Yetta, manages to escape from the butcher’s shop. But now she is lost in Brooklyna strange place filled with rude rats and dangerous buses! !?????? geVAHLT! Oh, dear! But then, brave Yetta saves a small green bird from a sneaky cat, and his friends, the wild parrots of Brooklyn, are very grateful. ¡Muchas gracias, gallina hermosa! ... (more)
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When Life Gives You O.J.
by Erica S. Perl
For years, 10-year-old Zelly Fried has tried to convince her parents to let her have a dog. After all, practically everyone in Vermont owns a dog, and it sure could go a long way helping Zelly fit in since moving there from Brooklyn. But when her eccentric grandfather Ace hatches a ridiculous plan involving a "practice dog" named OJ, Zelly's not so sure how far she's willing to go to win a dog of her own. Is Ace's... (more)
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The Magician of Lublin
by Isaac Bashevis Singer
"Isaac Bashevis Singer weaves a rich tapestry of human emotions combined with an unerring perception of man and his universe in this compelling story of an itinerant magician, his barren wife, his many mistresses and loneliness......"from back cover. Also by the author, The Manor and The Slave
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Hooray for Yiddish : A Book About English
by Leo Calvin Rosten
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Estie the Mensch
by Jane Kohuth
Estie does not always like people. So when her grandmother reminds her to be a mensch, she'd rather not. She'd rather be a dog. Or a turtle. Or a seagull. Being a monkey can even make another kid laugh! But it can also make another kid cry, and that's when Estie and her grandmother find out what a mensch Estie can really be.
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Tevye the Dairyman and the Railroad Stories
by Sholem Aleichem, Hillel Halkin
A superb introduction to the caustic wit and keen observations of one of the world's greatest storytellers. Included are "Tevye the Dairyman, " his masterpiece and the basis for Fiddler on the Roof, and all 21 Railroad Stories, in which human nature and the various shocks of modernity are perceived by men and women riding the trains from shtetl to shtetl.
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Tevye the Dairyman and Motl the Cantor's Son
by Sholem Aleichem
For the 150th anniversary of the birth of the “Jewish Mark Twain,”a new translation of his most famous works Tevye the Dairyman and Motl the Cantor’s Son are the most celebrated characters in all of Jewish fiction. Tevye is the lovable, Bible-quoting father of seven daughters, a modern Job whose wisdom, humor, and resilience inspired the lead character in Fiddler on the Roof . And Motl is the spirited and... (more)
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Tevye's Daughters
Collected Stories of Sholom Aleichem
by Sholem Aleichem
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Gimpel the Fool
And Other Stories
by Isaac Bashevis Singer
Singer's first collection of stories, Gimpel the Fool, is a landmark of world literature and attracted international attention when it was first published in 1957. The title story, beautifully translated by Saul Bellow, follows the exploits of Gimpel, an ingenuous baker, who is universally deceived but declines to retaliate. Other protagonists are not so innocent. Hodel, of "The Gentleman from Cracow," is wed... (more)
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Satan in Goray
by Isaac Bashevis Singer
As messianic zeal sweeps through medieval Poland, the Jews of Goray divide between those who, like the Rabbi, insist that no one can "force the end" and those who follow the messianic pretender Sabbatai Zevi. But as hysteria and depravity increase, it becomes clear that it is not the Messiah who has come to Goray.
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Jewish as a Second Language
by Molly Katz
Written for the Gentile who marries a Jew, this humorous guide covers everything from body language--the shrugs, the hand, the face--to behavior, customs, quirks, ordering Chinese food, even the psychology of child raising. Illustrations.
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If You Can't Say Anything Nice, Say it in Yiddish
The Book of Yiddish Insults and Curses
by Lita Epstein
You don’t have to be Jewish to get back at the shmendriks of the world Yiddish. It’s the most colorful language in the history of mankind. What other language gives you a whole dictionary of ways to tell someone to drop dead? That shmuck who got promoted over you? Meigulgl zol er vern in a henglaykhter, by tog zol er hengen, un by nakht zol er brenen . (He should be transformed into a chandelier, to hang by... (more)

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