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Yiddish books and books in English and other languages which feature commentary on Yiddishkeit.
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Tevye the Dairyman and the Railroad Stories
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4.18 avg rating — 1,469 ratings
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The Yiddish Policemen's Union
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3.72 avg rating — 78,983 ratings
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The Slave
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4.22 avg rating — 3,974 ratings
score: 757,
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Gimpel the Fool and Other Stories
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4.13 avg rating — 2,385 ratings
score: 669,
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The Brothers Ashkenazi
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4.34 avg rating — 1,591 ratings
score: 661,
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Shosha
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3.98 avg rating — 2,824 ratings
score: 660,
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Enemies: A Love Story
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3.97 avg rating — 3,594 ratings
score: 466,
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Yentl the Yeshiva Boy
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4.07 avg rating — 620 ratings
score: 466,
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The Joys of Yiddish
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4.25 avg rating — 677 ratings
score: 465,
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The Fools of Chelm and Their History
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3.80 avg rating — 337 ratings
score: 387,
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Dybbuk
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3.92 avg rating — 370 ratings
score: 384,
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Selected Poetry and Prose
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4.50 avg rating — 12 ratings
score: 375,
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The Golem
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3.83 avg rating — 874 ratings
score: 369,
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The Frozen Rabbi
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3.07 avg rating — 978 ratings
score: 291,
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3 people voted
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Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All of Its Moods
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3.63 avg rating — 1,489 ratings
score: 290,
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Folktales of the Jews, Volume 2: Tales from Eastern Europe
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Dan Ben-Amos (Editor)
4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings
score: 278,
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3 people voted
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Meshugah: A Novel
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3.74 avg rating — 440 ratings
score: 272,
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The Legend of the Baal-Shem
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4.14 avg rating — 155 ratings
score: 272,
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Tales of the Hasidim, Vols 1-2
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4.19 avg rating — 565 ratings
score: 268,
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3 people voted
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Yiddish with Dick and Jane
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Ellis Weiner (ŷ Author)
3.90 avg rating — 469 ratings
score: 265,
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3 people voted
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With Love, The Argentina Family: Memories of Tango and Kugel; Mate with Knishes
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Mirta Ines Trupp (ŷ Author)
3.92 avg rating — 89 ratings
score: 200,
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2 people voted
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The Family Mashber: A Novel by "Der Nister"/"the Hidden One"
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4.05 avg rating — 125 ratings
score: 197,
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The Yeshiva: Vol. 1
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4.38 avg rating — 78 ratings
score: 196,
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The Penitent
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3.59 avg rating — 617 ratings
score: 195,
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The Yeshiva: Vol. 2
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4.37 avg rating — 43 ratings
score: 194,
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The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer
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4.38 avg rating — 2,185 ratings
score: 192,
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2 people voted
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Songs for the Butcher's Daughter
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Peter Manseau (ŷ Author)
3.85 avg rating — 1,067 ratings
score: 192,
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Poems of the Holocaust and Poems of Faith
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4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
score: 188,
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Stardust Lost: The Triumph, Tragedy, and Mishugas of the Yiddish Theater in America
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4.07 avg rating — 28 ratings
score: 187,
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2 people voted
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Yoshe Kalb
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3.96 avg rating — 363 ratings
score: 186,
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2 people voted
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The Tales of Rabbi Nachman
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3.82 avg rating — 99 ratings
score: 181,
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The Golem and the Wondrous Deeds of the Maharal of Prague
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3.94 avg rating — 98 ratings
score: 180,
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Shadows on the Hudson
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4.02 avg rating — 1,218 ratings
score: 179,
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Adventures of Mottel the Cantor's Son
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4.39 avg rating — 231 ratings
score: 177,
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Envy, or Yiddish in America / The Pagan Rabbi
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4.13 avg rating — 30 ratings
score: 176,
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Not in the Same Breath זאָג כאָטש להבֿדיל
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Zackary Sholem Berger (ŷ Author)
3.60 avg rating — 10 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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The Principal of Rivington Street
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Henry F. Mazel (ŷ Author)
4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
score: 100,
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Bad Rabbi: And Other Strange but True Stories from the Yiddish Press
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Eddy Portnoy (ŷ Author)
4.07 avg rating — 212 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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On The Roof: A look inside Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish
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4.58 avg rating — 19 ratings
score: 100,
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Chelm for the Holidays
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Valerie Estelle Frankel (ŷ Author)
4.11 avg rating — 35 ratings
score: 100,
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Diary of a Lonely Girl, or The Battle against Free Love
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3.78 avg rating — 74 ratings
score: 100,
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No Star Too Beautiful: A Treasury of Yiddish Stories
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Joachim Neugroschel (Editor)
4.23 avg rating — 13 ratings
score: 100,
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Becoming Malka
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Mirta Ines Trupp (ŷ Author)
4.30 avg rating — 70 ratings
score: 99,
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1 person voted
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How the Wise Men Got to Chelm: The Life and Times of a Yiddish Folk Tradition
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3.94 avg rating — 16 ratings
score: 99,
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Deborah
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3.80 avg rating — 193 ratings
score: 99,
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Mottke, the Thief
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4.32 avg rating — 25 ratings
score: 99,
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Yiddish Folktales
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Beatrice Silverman Weinreich (Editor)
4.13 avg rating — 201 ratings
score: 98,
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From the Heart of Hell. Manuscripts of a Sonderkommando Prisoner, Found in Auschwitz
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4.27 avg rating — 252 ratings
score: 98,
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Rhapsody in Schmaltz: Yiddish Food and Why We Can't Stop Eating It
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3.74 avg rating — 96 ratings
score: 97,
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On Long Winter Nights�: Memoirs of a Jewish Family in a Galician Township, 1870�1900 (Harvard Center for Jewish Studies
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4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
score: 97,
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Shakespeare on the American Yiddish Stage
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4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
score: 96,
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The Cross and Other Jewish Stories (New Yiddish Library Series)
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4.22 avg rating — 27 ratings
score: 96,
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Yiddishkeit: Jewish Vernacular and the New Land
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Harvey Pekar (Editor)
3.69 avg rating — 194 ratings
score: 96,
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Yiddish: A Nation of Words
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Miriam Weinstein (ŷ Author)
4.23 avg rating — 128 ratings
score: 96,
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The Canvas and Other Stories by Salomea Perl
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score: 96,
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The Jewish King Lear Comes to America
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3.46 avg rating — 13 ratings
score: 95,
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The World According to Itzik: Selected Poetry and Prose
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3.85 avg rating — 13 ratings
score: 95,
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It Could Always Be Worse: A Yiddish Folk Tale
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4.18 avg rating — 2,039 ratings
score: 95,
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The Magician of Lublin
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3.91 avg rating — 3,713 ratings
score: 95,
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East River
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3.99 avg rating — 67 ratings
score: 94,
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The Family Carnovsky
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4.37 avg rating — 3,655 ratings
score: 94,
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The Family Moskat
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4.22 avg rating — 1,836 ratings
score: 93,
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The Stories of I. L. Peretz: The Father of Modern Yiddish Literature
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4.24 avg rating — 21 ratings
score: 92,
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The Yiddish Policemen's Union
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3.72 avg rating — 78,983 ratings
score: 91,
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Scum
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3.68 avg rating — 486 ratings
score: 91,
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American Klezmer: Its Roots and Offshoots
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Mark Slobin (ŷ Author)
3.62 avg rating — 8 ratings
score: 90,
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The Certificate: A Novel
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3.86 avg rating — 401 ratings
score: 90,
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The Moscow State Yiddish Theater: Jewish Culture on the Soviet Stage
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3.78 avg rating — 9 ratings
score: 89,
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Satan in Goray
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3.89 avg rating — 1,707 ratings
score: 89,
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Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books
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4.25 avg rating — 2,200 ratings
score: 86,
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The Manor & The Estate
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4.18 avg rating — 90 ratings
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Stories and Satires
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The King of the Fields
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3.61 avg rating — 228 ratings
score: 84,
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Classic Yiddish Stories of S. Y. Abramovitsh, Sholem Aleichem, and I. L. Peretz
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Ken Frieden (Translator)
4.21 avg rating — 56 ratings
score: 81,
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Yiddish with George and Laura
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Ellis Weiner (ŷ Author)
3.60 avg rating — 90 ratings
score: 80,
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Anna
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