Yiddish Literature

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Tevye the Dairyman and the Railroad Stories
Tevye the Dairyman and the Railroad Stories 4.18 avg rating β€” 1,482 ratings
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The Yiddish Policemen's Union
The Yiddish Policemen's Union 3.72 avg rating β€” 79,305 ratings
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The Slave
The Slave 4.23 avg rating β€” 4,016 ratings
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Gimpel the Fool and Other Stories
Gimpel the Fool and Other Stories 4.13 avg rating β€” 2,405 ratings
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The Brothers Ashkenazi
The Brothers Ashkenazi 4.35 avg rating β€” 1,615 ratings
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Shosha
Shosha 3.98 avg rating β€” 2,850 ratings
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Enemies: A Love Story
Enemies: A Love Story 3.97 avg rating β€” 3,645 ratings
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Yentl the Yeshiva Boy
Yentl the Yeshiva Boy 4.07 avg rating β€” 628 ratings
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The Joys of Yiddish
The Joys of Yiddish 4.25 avg rating β€” 679 ratings
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The Fools of Chelm and Their History
The Fools of Chelm and Their History 3.79 avg rating β€” 335 ratings
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Dybbuk
Dybbuk
by: S. Ansky
3.93 avg rating β€” 376 ratings
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Selected Poetry and Prose
Selected Poetry and Prose 4.50 avg rating β€” 12 ratings
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The Golem
The Golem 3.83 avg rating β€” 883 ratings
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The Frozen Rabbi
The Frozen Rabbi 3.08 avg rating β€” 980 ratings
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Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All of Its Moods
Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All of Its Moods 3.63 avg rating β€” 1,498 ratings
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Folktales of the Jews, Volume 2: Tales from Eastern Europe
Folktales of the Jews, Volume 2: Tales from Eastern Europe 4.38 avg rating β€” 8 ratings
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Meshugah: A Novel
Meshugah: A Novel 3.73 avg rating β€” 445 ratings
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The Legend of the Baal-Shem
The Legend of the Baal-Shem 4.13 avg rating β€” 157 ratings
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Tales of the Hasidim, Vols 1-2
Tales of the Hasidim, Vols 1-2 4.19 avg rating β€” 565 ratings
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Yiddish with Dick and Jane
Yiddish with Dick and Jane 3.91 avg rating β€” 472 ratings
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With Love, The Argentina Family: Memories of Tango and Kugel; Mate with Knishes
With Love, The Argentina Family: Memories of Tango and Kugel; Mate with Knishes 3.93 avg rating β€” 90 ratings
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The Family Mashber: A Novel by "Der Nister"/"the Hidden One"
The Family Mashber: A Novel by "Der Nister"/"the Hidden One"
by: Nister
4.06 avg rating β€” 129 ratings
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The Yeshiva: Vol. 1
The Yeshiva: Vol. 1 4.38 avg rating β€” 81 ratings
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The Penitent
The Penitent 3.59 avg rating β€” 626 ratings
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The Yeshiva: Vol. 2
The Yeshiva: Vol. 2 4.36 avg rating β€” 45 ratings
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The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer
The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer 4.38 avg rating β€” 2,198 ratings
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Songs for the Butcher's Daughter
Songs for the Butcher's Daughter 3.85 avg rating β€” 1,072 ratings
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Poems of the Holocaust and Poems of Faith
Poems of the Holocaust and Poems of Faith 4.50 avg rating β€” 4 ratings
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Stardust Lost: The Triumph, Tragedy, and Mishugas of the Yiddish Theater in America
Stardust Lost: The Triumph, Tragedy, and Mishugas of the Yiddish Theater in America 4.07 avg rating β€” 28 ratings
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Yoshe Kalb
Yoshe Kalb 3.96 avg rating β€” 369 ratings
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The Tales of Rabbi Nachman
The Tales of Rabbi Nachman 3.82 avg rating β€” 99 ratings
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The Golem and the Wondrous Deeds of the Maharal of Prague
The Golem and the Wondrous Deeds of the Maharal of Prague 3.94 avg rating β€” 97 ratings
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Shadows on the Hudson
Shadows on the Hudson 4.02 avg rating β€” 1,230 ratings
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Adventures of Mottel the Cantor's Son
Adventures of Mottel the Cantor's Son 4.39 avg rating β€” 233 ratings
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Envy, or Yiddish in America / The Pagan Rabbi
Envy, or Yiddish in America / The Pagan Rabbi 4.13 avg rating β€” 30 ratings
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Not in the Same Breath זאָג Χ›ΧΦΈΧ˜Χ© ΧœΧ”Χ‘ΦΏΧ“Χ™Χœ
Not in the Same Breath זאָג Χ›ΧΦΈΧ˜Χ© ΧœΧ”Χ‘ΦΏΧ“Χ™Χœ 3.60 avg rating β€” 10 ratings
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The Principal of Rivington Street
The Principal of Rivington Street 4.60 avg rating β€” 5 ratings
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Bad Rabbi: And Other Strange but True Stories from the Yiddish Press
Bad Rabbi: And Other Strange but True Stories from the Yiddish Press 4.07 avg rating β€” 212 ratings
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On The Roof: A look inside Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish
On The Roof: A look inside Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish 4.58 avg rating β€” 19 ratings
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Chelm for the Holidays
Chelm for the Holidays 4.03 avg rating β€” 37 ratings
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Diary of a Lonely Girl, or The Battle against Free Love
Diary of a Lonely Girl, or The Battle against Free Love 3.78 avg rating β€” 79 ratings
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No Star Too Beautiful: A Treasury of Yiddish Stories
No Star Too Beautiful: A Treasury of Yiddish Stories 4.23 avg rating β€” 13 ratings
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Becoming Malka
Becoming Malka 4.31 avg rating β€” 71 ratings
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How the Wise Men Got to Chelm: The Life and Times of a Yiddish Folk Tradition
How the Wise Men Got to Chelm: The Life and Times of a Yiddish Folk Tradition 3.94 avg rating β€” 16 ratings
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Deborah
Deborah 3.80 avg rating β€” 197 ratings
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Mottke, the Thief
Mottke, the Thief 4.32 avg rating β€” 25 ratings
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Yiddish Folktales
Yiddish Folktales 4.14 avg rating β€” 204 ratings
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From the Heart of Hell. Manuscripts of a Sonderkommando Prisoner, Found in Auschwitz
From the Heart of Hell. Manuscripts of a Sonderkommando Prisoner, Found in Auschwitz 4.27 avg rating β€” 264 ratings
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Rhapsody in Schmaltz: Yiddish Food and Why We Can't Stop Eating It
Rhapsody in Schmaltz: Yiddish Food and Why We Can't Stop Eating It 3.74 avg rating β€” 96 ratings
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On Long Winter Nights…: Memoirs of a Jewish Family in a Galician Township, 1870–1900 (Harvard Center for Jewish Studies
On Long Winter Nights…: Memoirs of a Jewish Family in a Galician Township, 1870–1900 (Harvard Center for Jewish Studies 4.67 avg rating β€” 6 ratings
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Shakespeare on the American Yiddish Stage
Shakespeare on the American Yiddish Stage 4.33 avg rating β€” 3 ratings
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The Cross and Other Jewish Stories (New Yiddish Library Series)
The Cross and Other Jewish Stories (New Yiddish Library Series) 4.22 avg rating β€” 27 ratings
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Yiddishkeit: Jewish Vernacular and the New Land
Yiddishkeit: Jewish Vernacular and the New Land 3.69 avg rating β€” 195 ratings
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Yiddish: A Nation of Words
Yiddish: A Nation of Words 4.23 avg rating β€” 130 ratings
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The Canvas and Other Stories by Salomea Perl
The Canvas and Other Stories by Salomea Perl really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 3 ratings
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The Jewish King Lear Comes to America
The Jewish King Lear Comes to America 3.57 avg rating β€” 14 ratings
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The World According to Itzik: Selected Poetry and Prose
The World According to Itzik: Selected Poetry and Prose 3.85 avg rating β€” 13 ratings
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It Could Always Be Worse: A Yiddish Folk Tale
It Could Always Be Worse: A Yiddish Folk Tale 4.18 avg rating β€” 2,060 ratings
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The Magician of Lublin
The Magician of Lublin 3.91 avg rating β€” 3,762 ratings
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East River
East River 3.99 avg rating β€” 68 ratings
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The Family Carnovsky
The Family Carnovsky 4.37 avg rating β€” 3,721 ratings
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The Family Moskat
The Family Moskat 4.22 avg rating β€” 1,858 ratings
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The Stories of I. L. Peretz: The Father of Modern Yiddish Literature
The Stories of I. L. Peretz: The Father of Modern Yiddish Literature 4.24 avg rating β€” 21 ratings
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The Yiddish Policemen's Union
The Yiddish Policemen's Union 3.72 avg rating β€” 79,305 ratings
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Scum
Scum 4.08 avg rating β€” 1,714 ratings
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American Klezmer: Its Roots and Offshoots
American Klezmer: Its Roots and Offshoots 3.62 avg rating β€” 8 ratings
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The Certificate: A Novel
The Certificate: A Novel 3.85 avg rating β€” 406 ratings
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The Moscow State Yiddish Theater: Jewish Culture on the Soviet Stage
The Moscow State Yiddish Theater: Jewish Culture on the Soviet Stage 3.78 avg rating β€” 9 ratings
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Satan in Goray
Satan in Goray 3.88 avg rating β€” 1,733 ratings
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Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books
Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books 4.25 avg rating β€” 2,213 ratings
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The Manor & The Estate
The Manor & The Estate 4.17 avg rating β€” 93 ratings
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Stories and Satires
Stories and Satires liked it 3.00 avg rating β€” 3 ratings
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The King of the Fields
The King of the Fields 3.61 avg rating β€” 231 ratings
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Classic Yiddish Stories of S. Y. Abramovitsh, Sholem Aleichem, and I. L. Peretz
Classic Yiddish Stories of S. Y. Abramovitsh, Sholem Aleichem, and I. L. Peretz 4.20 avg rating β€” 56 ratings
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Yiddish with George and Laura
Yiddish with George and Laura 3.60 avg rating β€” 90 ratings