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Simkhele Shoykhet
An excerpt from Shtot un shtetl, by Sarah Hamer-Jacklyn, translated by Allison Posner

The Strike of the Vilne Street-Walkers
An excerpt from Vilne mayn Vilne by Avrom Karpinovitsh, translated by Shimon Joffe

The Wise One
An excerpt from Figurnby Froyim Kaganovski, translated by Bracha Beverly Weingrod

A Room Named Ruth
A Cuban-born anthropologist seeks her lost Jewish home.

“An Open Letter” and “An Answer to Mr. Lilienblum”
by Moyshe Leyb Lilienblum and Avrom Kunin, translated by Ruth Murphy

Ver Vet Blaybn? (Who Will Remain?) (A Film)
A new feature-length documentary film from the Yiddish Book Center’s Wexler Oral History Project follows one woman’s journey to understand her grandfather, the Yiddish writer Avrom Sutzkever.

"Mr. Friedkin and Shoshana: Wandering Souls on the Lower East Side"
Joseph Opatoshu's take on the tormented personal life of a young Hebrew teacher in New York. Translated by Shulamith Berger.

From My Childhood
By Rokhl Feygenberg, translated by Ruth Murphy.

Happy New Year
By Sholem Aleichem, translated by Curt Leviant. In a "shtetl on wheels," a traveler relates a humorous tale about the plight of Jews in the Russian Empire

Vrastata Trasmata!
By Jonah Rosenfeld, translated by Rachel Mines. "A new immigrant can get some pretty crazy ideas!"

Erev shabes on a New York Trolley
By Joseph Opatoshu, translated by Shulamith Berger. A young Hebrew teacher in Jewish New York.

At the Interrogation
By Lili Berger, translated by Judy Nisenholt.

Adventures of a Bad Researcher: The Mystery of the Last Yiddish Linotype
The Yiddish Linotype at the Yiddish Book Center, once belonging to the Forverts newspaper, begs all kinds of questions about its past.
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