Fiction. Jewish Studies. Short Stories. Translated by Heather Valencia. Available for the first time in translation, Mendel Mann's stories follow his life in reverse, from Israel in the 1950s to his experiences in the post-War Soviet Union and his childhood in Poland. With psychological insight and a focus on the tension between remembrance and reinvention, Mann provides indelible portraits of survivors as they confront the past and struggle to create a meaningful existence in the fledgling state of Israel. "'You must hear me out:' The urgent need to tell their stories drives several characters in this collection to force listeners into hearing something they would rather not know. Acclaimed Yiddish writer Mendel Mann tries to make sense of his own experience and that of his troubled twentieth century in these haunting accounts of men and women under pressure of love, war, vengeance and memory in places as far afield as the German-Russian war zone and a Bedouin desert encampment. Thanks to the Yiddish Book Center for bringing these stories to light."--Ruth Wisse, Emerita Professor of Yiddish Literature, Harvard University "In these stories of disorientation and yearning, Mendel Mann traces the life of a survivor working backward--from coping, to trauma, to naiveté--in a Yiddish-language trajectory across time and place. By translating experiences from Poland, the Soviet Union, and Israel into his mother tongue, Mann also translates multilingual realities into literary form, recording the travails of an Eastern European Jew across the landscapes of the early to mid-20th century."--David Stromberg, Editor of In the Land of Happy Tears: Yiddish Tales for Modern Times

Seeds in the Desert

Literature & Fiction

Mann, Mendel

Short Stories & Anthologies

White Goat Press

Fiction. Jewish Studies. Short Stories. Translated by 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 love; working class fathers tempted by schemes for easy money; teenagers divided between their traditional religious upbringings and the world of secular culture and political revolution. By turns comic, satiric, and earnest, Nomberg's stories take the pulse of Warsaw's Jewish society at the dawn of the twentieth century. "Hilarious and insightful, a glimpse of a vanished world seen close at hand, with poverty, propriety, romance and much more. Knowing the author was the roommate of the great Yiddish writers Avrom Reyzen and Sholem Asch would assure him of a kind of immortality at one remove. But he was a forgotten genius, forgotten until...now! A very fine translation, too!"--Paul Buhle "Tinged with the deeply hopeless, yet nervously optimistic perspective of pre-WWII Jewish intellectuals, the stories of Hersh Dovid Nomberg evoke the lost world of Jewish luftmentsh autodidacts floating between urban cultures while in the process of creating their own. Daniel Kennedy's sharp translation provides a look through an historical keyhole in which we see a rich Yiddish landscape riddled with young Jews deep in intellectual ferment, culturally unmoored, but with a curiosity for life that swells hearts."--Eddy Portnoy

Warsaw Stories

Nomberg, Hersh Dovid

This all-new, multimedia Yiddish textbook will make learning Yiddish accessible, engaging, and a lot more intuitive. Its communicative approach combines the latest advances in language pedagogy with newly available digital tools, winsome characters, and an engaging design.

In eynem: The New Yiddish Textbook

Politics & Social Sciences

Schulman, Asya Vaisman

Social Sciences

Sutzkever Essential Prose

SUTZKEVER, Avrom

Genre Fiction

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 prose of a seminal Yiddish poet. In these works, Avrom Sutzkever blurs the lines between fiction, memoir, and poetry; between real and imagined; between memory and metaphor. He offers haunting scenes drawn from a vast imagination and from the unique life he lived--his youth in Siberia and Vilna, his trauma as a partisan and a survivor, and his post-war life as a Yiddish poet in Israel.Every page of this book--marvelously translated by Zackary Sholem Berger--trembles with smoldering vitality, and every page persuades us that the angel of prose confided in Sutzkever as faithfully as the angel of poetry. Readers of this book will not fail to appreciate how Sutzkever's unconquered past--in Siberia, in Vilna during what he calls 'the time of slaughter, ' and in Tel Aviv--bears on our present.--Benjamin BalintThis book is a revelation, even for those who know Sutzkever as one of the great poets of the twentieth century, because it shows Sutzkever, for the first time in English, as a true master of prose. These riveting short stories, in Berger's beautiful translation, cover vast territories from Siberia to Vilna to Israel and beyond, into the worlds of memory, imagination, myth, and legend.--Shachar Pinsker

About the Author\nBorn Hayeh Zukofsky in 1893 in the village of Ugli, White Russia, Ida Maze emigrated ca. 1907 and eventually settled in Montreal, Quebec. She was renowned for her work on behalf of other Yiddish writers. In addition to Dineh, Maze authored four books of poetry, A mame (A Mother; 1931), Lider far kinder (Poems for Children; 1936), Naye lider (New Poems; 1941), and Vaksn mayne kinderlekh: muter un kinder-lider (My Children Grow: Mother and Children's Poems; 1954), which was awarded the prize in children's literature by the Congress for Jewish Culture in 1955. Ida Maze died in 1962.\nYermiyahu Ahron Taub is the author of The Insatiable Psalm (Hershey, Pa.: Wind River Press, 2005). His English and Yiddish poems, one of which was nominated for a Pushcart Prize,have appeared in numerous publications, including The Forward, Kennesaw Review, Lily, and Prairie Schooner. He was honored by the Museum of Jewish Heritage as one of New York's best emerging Jewish artists. A longtime resident of Brooklyn, New York, he now lives in Washington, D.C.\nAvailable in English translation for the first time, DINEH, posthumously published, is an autobiographical Yiddish-language novel by Ida Maze (1893-1962). DINEH is a pastorale laced in beauty and sorrow and a bildungsroman told from the point of view of a young girl. Set entirely in what is now Belarus, Maze's eponymous heroine is fueled by her hunger for learning, connection to family and community, and love of the natural world. 
Fiction. Jewish Studies, Women's Studies.

Dineh: An Autobiographical Novel

Maze, Ida

World Literature

The Glass Plates of Lublin: Found Photographs of a Lost Jewish World

Arts & Photography

Lansky, Aaron

Photography & Video

From a Bird's Cage to a Thin Branch: The Selected Poems of Yosef Kerler

Kerler, Yosef

Poetry

The Glatstein Chronicles

GLATSTEIN, Jacob

Literary

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