Meshuggenary Celebrating the World of Yiddish
by Payson R. Stevens, Charles M. Levine and Sol St
Simon & Schuster
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Beautifully designed and illustrated, Meshuggenary is a deeply researched and eclectic introduction to Yiddish language, culture, and history. There is also information on a host of books and Yiddish websites and Internet links. If you've ever noshed on a bagel, or yelled at the schmuck who had the chutzpah to cut you off at a traffic light, you've been enriched and empowered by Yiddish.
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THE NEW JOYS OF YIDDISH
by Leo Rosten
Revised by Lawrence Bush

More than a quarter of a century ago, Leo Rosten presented the first comprehensive and hilarious lexicon of this colourful and deeply expressive language.

Said "to give body and soul to the Yiddish language", THE JOYS OF YIDDISH went on to become an indispensable tool for writers, journalists, politicians and students, as well as a perennial bestseller.

Now this classic has been revised and updated by editor Lawrence Bush in collaboration with Rosten's daughters.

It retains the spirit of the original - with its wonderful jokes, titbits of cultural history, Talmudic and Biblical references, and tips on pronunciation - and enhances it with hundreds of new entries, thougtful commentary on how Yiddish has 'evolved over the years, and an invaluable new English-to-Yiddish index.
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The Stories our Parents found too painful to tell
Authour: Rafael Rajzner
Edited by Dr Henry Lew

The book was written about Polish Jews in Bialystok.

It is Rafalel Rajzner's personal memoir of the Bialystock Ghetto translated from Yiddish by 22 translators.

This “Australian Book,” previously published only in Melbourne in Yiddish in 1948, is Australia’s first Holocaust memoir.

It has lain dormant for 60 years, and has never before had an English printing.

In English it has sold out its printings numerous times, as its subject matter is of great interest to many readers worldwide, non-Jews as well as Jews.

How it came to be translated into English, an amazing human interest story in itself, is told in the first 30 pages of the book.

Rafael Rajzner, whose personal testament this story is, was one of the counterfeiters, as in the recent academy award winning movie “The Counterfeiters,” and his book is the earliest written account of that story.

The ABC TV series Compass dedicated a program to it, “The Sleeping Book", which was aired nationally on ABC1-Channel 2. The program has seen been rescreened.

The ABC Radio National program “First Person” serialised the book on the radio in 5 quarter-hour episodes.

There is even some talk that the “Compass” program may now be offered to Jewish Film Festivals at home and abroad.

The book has already been acquired by Holocaust Museum libraries in Jerusalem, Berlin, Washington, Sydney and Melbourne, the Kean University Library in New Jersey and the Yivo Library in New York.
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Zlateh the Goat and other stories
by Isaac Bashevis Singer
HB

Originally written in Yiddish by Isaac Bashevis Singer, these stories are perfectly matched by the illustrations of Maurice Sendak.

Beautifully bound in a hardcover edition, these wonderful stories are suitable for all ages.
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