This pioneering study is the first to show how Jews have been seen through modern Ukrainian literature and challenges the established view that the relationship of the Jewish and Ukrainian communities was dominated by antagonism.

One of the great European novels of the twentieth century, written by the legendary Yiddish writer David Bergelson, is finally available in a superb translation that will bring it the wide English-speaking audience it deserves.

Offering a unique glimpse of pre-Holocaust Jewish life in Poland, Perle’s novel Everyday Jews is now considered his consummate achievement. Written in Yiddish and published in 1935, the book has never before been translated into English. The story is told by 12-year-old Mendl, in whose unsettled world most people yearn to be somewhere else—or someone else.

A monumental work, Max Weinreich’s History of the Yiddish Language is the definitive account of the Yiddish language from its origin to the present. This two-volume set translates Weinreich’s full text as well as his copious footnotes and references into English for the first time.

Yudl Rosenberg’s volume of golem stories, an immediate bestseller when published in 1909, transformed the ancient legend of the creature made of clay and created a new role for him: Golem as protector of the Jewish people. This translation of Rosenberg’s influential folktales brings the Hebrew work to English-language readers for the first time.

This book is the first critical edition of the life and work of Yiddish author Lamed Shapiro, whose groundbreaking short stories, novellas, and essays are crucial to an understanding of Yiddish modernism. Despite his own deeply troubled life, Shapiro’s writings are innovative and rich with insights into Jewish history and culture.

 

 

Jacob Gordin’s Jewish King Lear, first performed in New York in 1892, was an immediate and continuing success. This book presents the original play in English for the first time and explains the significance of Gordin’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s play for his audience of new Jewish immigrants making their way in America.

Jacob Gordin’s Jewish King Lear, first performed in New York in 1892, was an immediate and continuing success. This book presents the original play in English for the first time and explains the significance of Gordin’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s play for his audience of new Jewish immigrants making their way in America.

This delightful volume presents an outstanding new translation of two favorite comic novels by the pre-eminent Yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem. In each story Aleichem portrays with precision and humor the disorientation of traditional Jews in the face of modern industrial society. The volume includes a biographical and critical introduction as well as a useful glossary for English-language readers....

This delightful volume presents an outstanding new translation of two favorite comic novels by the pre-eminent Yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem. In each story Aleichem portrays with precision and humor the disorientation of traditional Jews in the face of modern industrial society. The volume includes a biographical and critical introduction as well as a useful glossary for English-language readers....

Isaac Leybush Peretz (1852–1915) is one of the most influential figures of modern Jewish culture. Born in Poland and dedicated to Yiddish culture, he recognized that Jews needed to adapt to their times while preserving their cultural heritage, and his captivating and beautiful writings explore the complexities inherent in the struggle between tradition and the desire for progress. This book, which...

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 fiction and an excerpt from his four-volume chronicle of the Eastern Front in the First World War, The Destruction of Galacia.

In the years between 1929 and 1939, when Itzik Manger wrote most of the poetry, fiction, and criticism that made him famous, his name among Yiddish readers was a household word. This book—the first full-length anthology of Manger’s work—demonstrates why: his style is captivating, his psychological insights are modern, his humor is irrepressible. An extensive historical, biographical, and critical ...

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