New Yiddish Library

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The New Yiddish Library ( New Yiddish Library ) is a since 2002 when Yale University Press published series of books with English translations of Yiddish works . It is a joint venture between the Fund for the Translation of Jewish Literature and the Yiddish Book Center . Additional support comes from the Kaplen Foundation and the Felix Posen Fund for the Translation of Modern Yiddish Literature ( Felix Posen Fund for the Translation of Modern Yiddish Literature ). The series includes fictional works, memoirs, dramas and journalistic writings. The books are available both in printed form and as e-books. Editor-in-chief of the New Yiddish Library has been David G. Roskies of the Jewish Theological Seminary and Hebrew University since 1998 .

Jonathan Brent has been the editorial director of Yale University Press since 1997 .

Overview

The following overview does not claim to be up-to-date or complete:

  • In Those Nightmarish Days , by Peretz Opoczynski and Josef Zelkowicz . Translated and edited by David Suchoff, with an introduction by Sam Kassow.
  • The Zelmenyaners , by Moyshe Kulbak . Translated by Hillel Halkin.
  • The Glatstein Chronicles , by Jacob Glatstein . Translated by Maier Deshell and edited by Ruth R. Wisse.
  • The Letters of Menakhem-Mendl and Sheyne-Sheyndl and Motl the Cantor's Son , by Sholem Aleichem . Translated by Hillel Halkin.
  • The IL Peretz Reader , edited by Ruth R. Wisse.
  • The World According to Itzik , by Itzik Manger . Translated and edited by Leonard Wolf.
  • The Dybbuk and Other Writings , by S. An-ski . Edited by David G. Roskies (also contains a selection of the First World War Diary of An-ski: The Destruction of Galicia )
  • “The Cross” and Other Jewish Stories , by Lamed Shapiro . Edited by Leah Garrett.
  • Everyday Jews: Scenes From a Vanished Life , by Yehoshue Perle . Translated by Maier Deshell.
  • The End of Everything , by David Bergelson . Translated by Joseph Sherman.

See also

References and footnotes

  1. ^ New Yiddish Library , accessed January 13, 2019.
  2. ↑ YIVO Names Jonathan Brent Executive Director and CEO
  3. ↑ yiddishbookcenter.org: The New Yiddish Library Series - accessed January 13, 2019
  4. ↑ German under the title: Józef Zelkowicz: In these nightmarish days: Diary entries from the Lodz / Litzmannstadt ghetto, September 1942 * *

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