“Books in the Works”


by Dovid Katz

www.dovidkatz.net

BOOKS TO DATE;  PUBLICATIONS TO DATE;  RECENT PUBLICATIONS;  CV

UPDATED 2024

A Cultural Grammar of Yiddish

(extensive revision of 1987 grammar)

99 Yiddish Words: A Linguistic, Cultural and Political History

Yiddish Cultural Dictionary: An English-Yiddish Lexicon

in progress online

A Short History of Yiddish

Tale of a Brooklyn Yiddishist (Safad; Brooklyn; Manhattan; London; Oxford; Belarus; New Haven; Vilnius; Wales; Internetland)

On The Road in the Old Country: Memoirs of Journeys to the Last Yiddish Mohicans in the Litvak Lands. Vol I: The Last Shtetl Jews. Vol II: In the Erstwhile Cities of Yiddish.

Note: A draft of volume 1 was completed years ago, but never published. The late Professor Arthur Hertzberg wrote a preface.

Vilnius Jewish Culture

(folio volume on the scale of Lithuanian Jewish Culture, 2nd edition Baltos Lankos: Vilnius 2010)

A Litvak’s (Politically Incorrect) Guide to Modern Vilnius

A Dictionary of Ashkenazic Hebrew

in progress online

Normativism Gone Wrong: The Disaster of Postwar Yiddish Language Planning

Double Genocide: The East European Plot to Write the Holocaust out of History

The US, NATO, the EU and Israel: A Tilt Toward (East European) Holocaust Denial

Holocaust Denial of the Twenty-First Century


ALSO: Urgently looking for a publisher or agent to enable a new edition of Words on Fire: The Unfinished Story of Yiddish, Basic Books: New York 2004, 2nd edition 2007. It has gone out of print with rights reverting to the author.

BOOKS IN YIDDISH

Fifth collection of short stories set in pre World War I Jewish Lithuania. [previous books]

Translation of the Bible into Lithuanian Yiddish

Comments are closed.