New Jewish Books
Translators: Anita Norich and Ellen Cassedy New York, 1918. One fateful winter night, Miriam Eidelberg finds herself strolling across the Williamsburg Bridge with her literary hero, the man whose poems she knows by heart....
Yiddish: A Global Culture at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, MA is the first ever museum to showcase the extraordinary vibrancy and breadth of modern Yiddish culture—its literature, theater, art, music, journalism, politics—from...
Translator: Mikhl Yashinsky Max Spitzkopf, the Yiddish Sherlock Holmes, “ heads the famous Viennese detective bureau Blitz . . . He’ s bold as a lion and takes the wildest risks.” Meet Max Spitzkopf:...
Translator: David Stromberg Isaac Bashevis Singer’s Writings On Yiddish and Yiddishkayt, The War Years, 1939-1945 is the first major effort to fill the gap between the Nobel laureate’s Yiddish and English oeuvre. David Stromberg,...
The Exiled Sister of I.J. and Isaac Bashevis Singer The Forgotten Singer, published in English for the first time tells the story of the author’s mother, Esther Singer Kreitman, a literary genius who was...
Editors: Lisa Newman, Piotr Nazaruk, Aaron Lansky THE GLASS PLATES OF LUBIN features selections from the 2,700 glass photographic plates discovered in the attic of a nineteenth-century apartment building in the former Jewish section...
Translator: Zackary Sholem Berger Fiction. Poetry. Jewish Studies. Translated by Zackary Sholem Berger. Introduction by Heather Valencia. Through Zackary Sholem Berger’s translations, SUTZKEVER ESSENTIAL PROSE brings to light for English readers the largely unknown...
Translator: Daniel Kennedy Available for the first time in a new English translation, Nomberg’s stories explore modern Jewish life in the growing cosmopolitan city of Warsaw: young intellectuals in pursuit of truth, beauty, and...
