Newly Published Books Based on Research at YIVO
Nov 18, 2013
Every month, the YIVO Library receives complimentary copies of books whose content has been drawn in part from research done by the authors in the YIVO Archives and Library. Below is a partial list of books published in 2011-2013.
- Berkowitz, Joel and Barbara Henry, eds. Inventing the Modern Yiddish Stage: Essays in Drama, Performance, and Show Business. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2012.
- Deutsch, Nathaniel. The Jewish Dark Continent: Life and Death in the Russian Pale of Settlement. Cambridge, MA; London: Harvard University Press, 2011.
- Glaser, Amelia M. Jews and Ukrainians in Russia’s Literary Borderlands: from the Shtetl Fair to the Petersburg Bookshop. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2012.
- Henry, Barbara. Rewriting Russia: Jacob Gordin’s Yiddish Drama. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2011.
- Hoberman, J. Bridge of Light: Yiddish Film between Two Worlds. Updated and expanded edition with DVD documentary “The Yiddish Cinema.” Hanover, NH; London: Darthmouth University Press; University Press of New England, 2010.
- Johnson, Sam. Pogroms, peasants, Jews: Britain and Eastern Europe’s “Jewish question,” 1867-1925. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
- Katz, Daniel. All together different: Yiddish Socialists, Garment workers, and the Labor Roots of multiculturalism. New York; London: NYU Press, 2013.
- Kazovsky, Hillel. Book design of Kultur-Lige artists. Kiev: Dukh i litera, 2011.
- Manor, Ehud. Louis Miller and Di Warheit (“The Truth”): Yiddishism, Zionism and Socialism in New York, 1905-1915. Brighton; Portland; Toronto: Sassex Academic Press, 2013.
- Margolis, Rebecca. Basic Yiddish: a grammar and workbook. London; New York: Routledge, 2011.
- Schachter, Allison. Diasporic modernisms: Hebrew & Yiddish literature in the twentieth century. New York: Oxford University press, 2012.
- Soldat-Jaffe, Tatjana. Twenty-First century Yiddishism. Brighton; Portland; Toronto, 2013.
- Zamoisky, A. Transformatsiia mestechek v Sovetskoi Belorussii: 1918-1939) = Transformation of small towns (shtetls) of Soviet Belarus (1918-1939). Minsk: I. P. Logvinov, 2013.