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1	Yiddish Civilisation: The Rise and Fall of a Forgotten Nation more books like this by Paul Kriwaczek add to wishlist From the author of "In Search of Zarasthustra" comes an illuminating chronicle of Yiddish civilization from the 13th century to the present. of photos. 3 maps. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.68! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Kibitzers and Fools: Tales My Zayda Told Me more books like this by Simms Taback add to wishlist With Old World charm, universal humor, and just a bit of chutzpah, Caldecott Medalist Simms Taback offers this lively spin on 13 playful tales which illustrates universal truths and important life lessons. Full color. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.95! \| SVS
3	The Jews of East Central Europe Between the World Wars more books like this by Ezra Mendelsohn add to wishlist An illuminating study of the demographic, cultural, and socioeconomic condition of East Central European Jewry, the book focuses on the internal life of Jewish communities in the region and on the relationships between Jews and gentiles in a nationalist environment. see all copies from $6.95! new only from $20.14! \| first editions \| SVS
4	After the War more books like this by Carol Matas add to wishlist At the end of World War II, 15-year-old Ruth, the only member of her family to survive the holocaust, is liberated from Buchenwald. Unable to find any ties to her past, Ruth joins "Brichah", an underground organization that helps people immigrate to Palestine. Will she be able to lead a group of children to the new homeland? see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	The Road to Modern Jewish Politics: Political Tradition and Political Reconstruction in the Jewish Community of Tsarist Russia more books like this by Eli Lederhendler add to wishlist It was not until the emergence of the ideologies of Zionism and Socialism at the end of the last century that the Jewish communities of the Diaspora were perceived by historians as having a genuine political life. In the case of the Jews of Russia, the pogroms of 1881 have been regarded as the watershed event which triggered the political ... see all copies from $38.76! new only from $67.32! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Yiddish Stories Old and New more books like this by Irving Howe (Editor), Eliezer Greenberg (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
7	The Feather Merchants & Other Tales of the Fools of Chelm more books like this by Steve Sanfield, Mikhail Magaril (Illustrator) add to wishlist Thirteen traditional Eastern European Jewish tales of the town of Chelm and its silly citizens. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.79! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	The First Day and Other Stories more books like this by Dvora Baron, Naomi Seidman (Translator), Chana Kronfeld (Translator) add to wishlist Baron (1887-1956) is considered by scholars to be the first female modernist writing in Hebrew. The 18 stories collected here recollect the troubled lives of Jewish women living in the shtetls of Eastern Europe during the late-19th and early-20th centuries. Baron draws on biblical and rabbinical literature, and experiments with both the Hebrew and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $16.48! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Tickety Tock more books like this by Jason Robert Brown add to wishlist Schmuel lived in a little gray house On a little gray street In a little gray town called Klimovich. And from the first minute, The first second he was born, Everyone told him to hurry up! And so begins the story of Schmuel, a boy who hurries his whole life through . . . until a magic clock gives him all the time he needs to follow his ... see all copies from $6.14! new only from $6.64! \| SVS
10	The Little, Little House more books like this by Jessica Souhami add to wishlist Joseph and his family feel squashed in their little, little house, with just a yard for the chickens and a small green patch for the goat and cow, so Joseph goes to his Aunty Bella for help. She tells him to bring the chickens into the house. Result? - chaos. But when Joseph goes back to Aunty Bella, she smiles and tells him to bring in the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.94! \| first editions \| SVS
11	A Wandering Feast: A Journey Through the Jewish Culture of Eastern Europe more books like this by Yale Strom, Elizabeth Schwartz add to wishlist An original and uplifting view of a world lost, reborn, and rediscovered This is a delightful book that welcomes the reader to a wonderful journey through the Jewish culture of Eastern Europe: the still--vibrant villages and homes, the Yiddish folkways, the toe--tapping Klezmer music, and heart--warming traditional food. Yale Strom documented his ... see all copies from $3.44! new only from $15.00! \| SVS
12	Crisis, Revolution, and Russian Jews more books like this by Jonathan Frankel add to wishlist This collection of essays examines the politicization and the politics of the Jewish people in the Russian empire during the late tsarist period. The focal point is the Russian revolution of 1905, when the political mobilization of the Jewish youth took on massive proportions, producing a cohort of radicalized activists - committed to socialism, ... see all copies from $62.14! new only from $71.50!
13 view cover	Jewish Response to Modernity: New Voices in America and Eastern Europe more books like this by Eli Lederhendler add to wishlist By examining how Jews filtered their experience of modernity through their speech and literature, Lederhendler provides an overview of the way in which the self-perceptions of Jews evolved, both in the Old World and among immigrants to America, and reveals how cultural conflicts were reconciled. see all copies from $2.97! new only from $9.95! \| first editions
14 view cover	The Face of East European Jewry more books like this by Arnold Zweig, Professor Noah Isenberg (Editor), Hermann Struck (Illustrator) add to wishlist A landmark work in the sphere of modern German-Jewish cultural life, "The Face of East European Jewry" is also a window on a lost world. First published in 1920 and never before translated into English, this work brings together the impassioned writing of one of Weimar Germany's most celebrated authors, Arnold Zweig, and the equally poignant ... see all copies from $7.85! new only from $14.50! \| first editions
15	World of Our Fathers: The Jews of Eastern Europe more books like this by Milton Meltzer add to wishlist A history, using numerous secondary sources, of the Jews in eastern Europe, especially during the nineteenth century. see all copies from $1.99! first editions
16 view cover	A History of Jewish Life from Eastern Europe to America more books like this by Milton Meltzer add to wishlist 51.95 see all copies from $3.38! new only from $24.39! \| first editions
17 view cover	And Then There Was One-- more books like this by Michael Stone add to wishlist This is the story of how a comfortable middle class Jewish family dealt with the political and economic turmoil caused by the end of the Czar's reign and the onset of Communist government in Russia and how it eventually made its way to Weimar Germany where it prospered once again, only to have to leave when the Nazi rule made continued life in ... see all copies from $7.73! new only from $31.40!
18 view cover	Judaica in the Slavic Realm, Slavica in the Judaic Realm more books like this by Zachary M Baker add to wishlist This important book addresses topics that may be unfamiliar even to specialists in Slavic or Jewish Studies. Here you'll find essays, research studies, and extensive bibliographies illustrating the state of Jewish-related publishing ventures in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union in the post-WWII era. see all copies from $12.50! new only from $12.50!
19	Favorite Yiddish Stories more books like this by Irving Howe (Editor), Eliezer Greenberg (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.45! \| first editions
20 view cover	The Glazier's Country more books like this by Janet Kaplan add to wishlist This collection of poems follows the life of a survivor of the Eastern European pogroms, but the theme is larger; notions of victimhood as an identity, moral certitude and the differences between justice and revenge are questioned and explored. see all copies from $9.00! new only from $59.31! \| first editions
21	The Purim Goat more books like this by Yuri Suhl add to wishlist Hoping to earn some money so his pet goat won't be sold to pay a debt, a poor Jewish boy teaches the animal to dance. see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions
22 view cover	Yettele's Feathers more books like this by Joan Rothenberg add to wishlist Yettele is a woman who loves to gossip. When her neighbors ask her to stop, she says that her gossip is only words and that words are no more harmful than feathers. Will the town's wise rabbi be able to show Yettele the error in in her ways? Color illustrations accompany the text. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $29.94! \| first editions
23 view cover	Where Once We Walked: A Guide to the Jewish Communities Destroyed in the Holocaust more books like this by Gary Mokotoff, Michael Amdur Lucas add to wishlist see all copies from $79.81! new only from $85.00! \| first editions
24	Amercan Origins: Tracing Our Jewish Roots more books like this by Miriam Sagam, Miriam Sagan, Nate Butler (Illustrator) add to wishlist An exploration of what it was like for Jewish people from Eastern Europe to immigrate to the United States. Personal remembrances are included as are reflections on the process of assimilation. Archival photographs and color illustrations accompany the text. see all copies from $1.99! first editions
25	The Rabbi's Wisdom: A Jewish Folk Tale from Eastern Europe more books like this by Erica Gordon, Victor G Ambrus (Illustrator) add to wishlist Unable to stand his overcrowded and noisy home any longer, a poor man goes to the Rabbi for advice. see all copies from $3.54! first editions

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