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Scanned this week: from Pushkin to Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov

Highlights of books recently scanned for our Digital Yiddish Library, annotated by Fellow Josh Price.

Scanned this week: poetry, children's tales, a dictionary, and more

Yiddish books recently digitized range from history to poetry, children's tales to dictionaries. View highlights...

Scanned this week: Dovid Edelshtat

Dovid Edelshtat, 1942. Kalmen Marmor's biography of the legendary anarchist Yiddish poet.

Scanned this week: Yisroel kintsler

Yisroel kintsler, 1979. Gavriel Vaysman's extensive collection of essays on several dozen Israeli artists...

Scanned this week: Geboy, kharakter, un ufshtayg fun histadrut

Geboy, kharakter, un ufshtayg fun histadrut, 1955. Melech Noy's brochure on the "Structure, Character, and Growth of the Histadrut," Israel's main labor organization.

Scanned this week: Yidish in undzer leben

Yidish in undzer leben, 1950. A Workmen's Circle pamphlet on "Yiddish in Our Life," with essays....

Scanned this week: Vashington - zayn geburt, yugnt, un ertsiung

Scanned this week: Vashington: zayn geburt, yugnt, un ertsiung (Washington: His Birth, Youth, and Education). Lexicographer Alexander Harkavy’s concise 1908 biography of our first president. Also includes a Yiddish translation of the Declaration of Independence, Di umophengikayts erklerung.

Scanned this week: Ikh lern zikh yidish (I Learn Yiddish)

Scanned this week: Ikh lern zikh yidish (I Learn Yiddish), 1938. Y. Kaminski's ultimate tutorial for the alef-beys and beyond, replete with songs, poems, stories, and illustrations galore.