Product Description: Peretz Markish (1895-1952), one of Eastern Europe's most important Yiddish poets in the period between the two world wars, was a fiercely independent maverick who published work in all literary genres. Although emerging from the Kiev literary tradition, Markish always went his own way in a literary career spanning four decades and embracing almost all twentieth-century aesthetic movements...read more

Product Description: Originally published in 1913, When All Is Said and Done is one of the great novels of the twentieth century. Considered David Bergelson’s masterpiece, it was written in Yiddish and until now has been unavailable in a complete and accurate English translation...read more

Product Description: Pitch-perfect and utterly breathtaking, The Legend of Albion by the American poet and photographer Joseph Randell Sherman is just the thing for young discerning readers. Intellectually charged with twelve full-color illustrations, this epic poem is a journey of mythic proportions...read more

Product Description: Yiddish, the everyday language of the Jews of Eastern Europe for 1000 years, was largely destroyed in its heartland by the Holocaust in a cultural extinction that accompanied the extermination of its speakers. However as the articles assembled here by leading Oxford Yiddish scholar and translator, Joseph Sherman demonstrate, it has nevertheless had a fragmented 'afterlife' in Poland, South Africa and Israel as well as amongst ultra-pious Jews in the United States and Canada who have maintained it as a linguistic wall between themselves and the wider world...read more

Product Description: Early in the twentieth century, Yiddish, previously stigmatized as a corrupt jargon, came to be recognized as a language in its own right which was already the vehicle for a rich literature. Many writers in other languages gradually became aware of the status of Yiddish, sometimes by encountering Yiddish-speaking communities in Eastern Europe, and responded to Yiddish language and culture in their own works, while Yiddish writers adopted, and sometimes anticipated, modern trends in other literatures known to them...read more

Product Description: To what extent do Yiddish language and literature derive from the dominant values of mainstream European culture? How far did this culture shape the self-perception of Yiddish-speaking Jews of Central and Eastern Europe? How far did the ambivalent, antagonistic attitude adopted towards Jews over many centuries in Christian Europe shape modern Jewish identity and culture? Sherman deals with such questions in his close examination of the recurring treatment of the myth of the Jewish Pope in four Yiddish literary texts dating from between 1602 and 1943...read more

Product Description: "A piercing work of fiction with a strong claim to being Singer’s masterpiece” (Richard Bernstein, The New York Times), Shadows on the Hudson traces the intertwined lives of a group of Jewish refugees in New York City in the late 1940s...read more

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Preparing to host a tea party, Dudley the Dragon takes a nice, hot bath with plenty of water and is alarmed when there is no water left for the party, in a story about environmental issues. Original.