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Oxford Books and Magazines Published Entirely in Yiddish (1990-1998)



49 publications in Yiddish scholarship, stylistics, and literature coming out of 1990s Oxford

A project to scan them all (OCR searchable) and provide online gratis

(IN PROGRESS. UPDATED: 24 NOV. 2024; ADDITIONAL LINKS & CORRECTIONS GRATEFULLY ACCEPTED. PLEASE NOTE ALSO THAT ENGLISH LANGUAGE OXFORD PUBLICATIONS ON YIDDISH STUDIES ARE NOT INCLUDED HERE; THEY ARE BEING SCANNED AS AND WHEN RESOURCES PERMIT AND WILL BE POSTED SEPARATELY IN DUE COURSE.)

ACKNOWLEDGMENT: WITH THANKS TO DAN RABINOWITZ & MENACHEM BUTLER FOR INSPIRING THESE SCANNINGS AND UPLOADS.

See also:

Keepsakes of Yiddish at Oxford (1978-1996)


45 St Giles, Oxford OX1 3LW

Oxford Yiddish (Oksforder Yidish)

Collective volumes for academic studies in Yiddish linguistics, literary history and folklore

(vols. 1-3, 1990–1995)

Volume 1 (Harwood Academic Publishers & Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies, 1990, 401 + xi pp). English title and contents pp. Invitation to London book launch.

Volume 2 (Harwood Academic Publishers & Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies, 1991, 313 + xi pp). English title and contents pp.

Volume 3 (Oksforder Yidish Press & Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies; 2nd print: Oksforder Yidish Press & Oxford Institute for Yiddish Studies, 1995, 984 columns folio + xvi pp). English title and contents pp.

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Dovid Katz’s Yiddish Fiction (in Book Form)



1. Eldra Don and Other Yiddish Short Stories [Eldra Don un andere mayses], Three Sisters Press: Rowen, Wales, 1992, 191 pp (seven short stories). Online

2. The Flat Peak. Tales of the Province of Vilna [Der flakher shpits. Mayses fun Vilner gubernye], Three sisters Press: Rowen, Wales, 1993, 188 pp. (seven short stories). Online.

3. Tales of the Misnagdim of Vilna Province [Misnagdishe mayses fun Vilner gubernye], Yerusholaymer Almanach Press: Oxford & Jerusalem, 1996, 204 pp. (ten short stories). Online. [Note: Reviews (of this and previous volumes) by Moyshe Ayzenbud, Yehuda Elberg, Abraham Karpinovich, Eli Katz, Abraham Lis, Yitskhok Luden, Joseph Mlotek, Mordechai Tsanin, Yankev-Tsvi Shargel, Abraham Sutzkever, Shloyme Vorzoger, and others are being scanned for eventual linking on this page.]

4. Einstein from Svir and Other Yiddish Short Stories [Aynshteyn fun Svir un andere dertseylungen], cover by Giedre Beconyte, Leyvik Publishing House (with National Authority for Yiddish Culture and World Jewish Congress International Yiddish Center in Vilnius): Tel Aviv, 2020 (2019), 227 pp. (12 short stories).


Translations in Book Form

ENGLISH 1The City in the Moonlight. Stories from the Old-Time Lithuanian JewsTranslated by Barnett Zumoff, KTAV Publishing House: Jersey City, NJ, 2012, 138 pp. (13 short stories) Online.

ENGLISH 2: From East Broadway to Whitechapel. Translated by Barnett Zumoff, Noir Press: Nottingham, 2024/2025.

GERMANOstjüdische Geschichten aus dem alten LitauenTranslated by  Melitta Depner, SALO LiteraturVERLAG: München, 2012, 329 pp. (11 short stories).

ITALIANNoah Anshel dell’altro mondoIntroduzione e traduzione de Erri De Luca, Libreria Dante & Descartes: Naples 2012, 47 pp.


Awards for Yiddish Fiction

1994: Hirsh Rosenfeld Award in Yiddish Literature, Canadian Jewish Congress (Montreal).

1995: Chaim Grade Award in Yiddish Culture, Congress for Jewish Culture (New York).

1996: Chaim Zhitlovsky Award and Medal, Zhitlovsky Foundation (New York).

1997: Manger Prize in Yiddish Literature (Tel Aviv).

2000: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Award  (New York).

2020: Leyb Rubinlicht Award in Yiddish Literature, Leyvik House (Tel Aviv).


Note 1: Individual stories have appeared in periodicals in Lithuanian, Polish, and Belarusian translation. Several of these are linked on the author’s website.

Note 2: A compilation of (scanned) book reviews on the four published Yiddish volumes is in progress and will in due course be added to this page.

Note 3: A number of Yiddish short stories by the author have not yet appeared in any collection.

Updated: January 2025

 

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