Selected Recent Titles Based in Whole or in Part on Research Conducted at YIVO

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  • Abramson, Henry. A Prayer for the Government: Ukrainian and Jews in Revolutionary Times, 1917-1920. Harvard University Press. 1999.

  • Abramowicz, Hirsz. Profiles of a Lost World: Memoirs of East European Jewish Life before World War II. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1999.

  • Aptroot, Marion; Nath, Holger. Araynfir in der Yidisher shprakh un kultur. Hamburg: Helmut Buske, 2002.

  • Argentine Jewish Theatre: A Critical Anthology. Edited and translated by Nora Glickman and Gloria F. Waidman. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 1996.

  • Baldwin, Neil. Henry Ford and the Jews: the Mass Production of Hate. New York: Public Affairs, 2001.

  • Bechtel, Delphine. La Renaissance culturelle juive en Europe centrale et orientale 1897-1930: langue, littérature, et construction nationale. Paris: Belin, 2002.

  • Berkowitz, Joel. Shakespeare on the American Yiddish Stage. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2002.

  • Biagini, Furio. Nati altrove: ii movimento anarchio ebraico tra Mosca e New York. Pisa: BFS, 1998.

  • Cassedy, Steven. To the Other Shore: The Russian Jewish Intellectuals Who Came to America. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997.

  • Chapin, David A.; Weinstock, Ben. The Road from Letichev: the History and Culture of a Forgotten Jewish Community in Eastern Europe. San Jose, CA: Writer's Showcase presented by Writer's Digest, 2000.

  • Deutsch, Shaul Shimon. Larger Than Life. The Life and Times of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson. New York: Chasidic Historical Productions, 1997.

  • Fenton, James. "The Secret of the Mummy Portraits," in The New York Review of Books, vol. 44, no. 12 (July 17, 1997).

  • Fishman, David E. Embers Plucked from the Fire: The Rescue of Jewish Cultural Treasures in Vilna. New York: YIVO, 1996.

  • Di Froyen : Women and Yiddish, Tribute to the Past, Directions for the Future. New York: National Council of Jewish Women, New York Section, Jewish Women's Resource Center, 1999.Gay, Ruth. Unfinished People: Eastern European Jews Encounter America. New York: W.W. Norton, 1996.

  • Gottesman, Itzik Nakhmen. Defining the Yiddish Nation: The Jewish Folklorists of Poland. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2003.

  • Haberer, Erich. Jews and Revolution in Nineteenth-Century Russia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

  • Hadda, Janet. Isaac Bashevis Singer: A Life. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.

  • Harpaz, Nathan. A gift to Biro-bidjan: Chicago, 1937 : from despair to hope. [Des Plaines, IL]: William A. Koehnline Gallery, Oakton Community College, 2002.

  • The Jews in Shanghai. Editor in Chief Pan Guang. Shanghai: Shanghai Pictorial Publishing House, 1995.

  • Kacyzne, Alter. Poyln: Jewish Life in the Old Country; edited by Marek Web. New York: Metropolitan Books, 1999.

  • Kaplan, Esward K. and Samuel H. Dresner. Abraham Joshua Heschel: Prophetic Witness. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998.

  • Der Kibbuz auf dem Streicher-Hof: die vergessene Geschichte der juedische Kollektivfannen 1945-48. Nuemberg, 1997.

  • Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara. Destination Culture: Tourism, Museums, and Heritage. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.

  • Korzec, Pawel, and Jacques Burko. Le Government Polonais en Exil et la Persecution des Juifs en France 1942. Paris: Editions Du Cerf, 1997.

  • Kruk, Herman. The Last Days of the Jerusalem of Lithuania. New Haven: Yale University Press; New York: YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, 2002.

  • The Language and Culture Atlas of Ashkenazic Jewry. Edited by Vera Bavisker , Marvin Herzog, et al. 3 vols. Tubingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1992-2000.

  • Lebow, Alisa. First Person Jewish: Automythography in Contemporary Jewish Documentary Film. Ph.D. dissertation, New York University, 2001.

  • Lederhendler, Eli. New York Jews and the Decline of Urban Ethnicity, 1950-1970. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2001.

  • Leivick, H. Der Golem. Hamburg: Hamburger Kammerspiele, 1995.

  • Lowenstein, Steven M. The Jewish Cultural Tapestry: International Jewish Folk Traditions. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

  • Markel, Howard. Quarantine! East European Jewish Immigrants and the New York City Epidemics of 1892. Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press, 1997.

  • McBride, James. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother. New York: Riverhead Books, 1996.

  • Menton, Arthur F. The Book of Destiny: Toledot Charlap. Cold Spring Harbor, NY: King David Press, 1996.

  • Mlotek, Eleanor Gordon; Mlotek, Joseph. Songs of Generations: New Pearls of Yiddish Song. New York: Workmen's Circle, 1997.

  • Nachshon, Edna. Yiddish Proletarian Theatre. London: Greenwood Press, 1998.

  • Nadler, Allan. The Faith of the Mithnagdim: Rabbinic Responses to Hasidic Rapture. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.

  • Nathans, Benjamin. Beyond the Pale: the Jewish Encounter with Late Imperial Russia. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.

  • Neiss, Marion. Presse im Transit: jiddische Zeitungen und Zeitschriften in Berlin von 1919 bis 1925. Berlin: Metropol, 2001.

  • Nusach Vilne; YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. Our Hometown Vilna: permanent Exhibition. New York: Nusach Vilna, 2002.

  • Peltz, Rakhmiel. From Immigrant to Ethnic Culture: American Yiddish in South Philadelphia. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998.

  • Poznanski, Renée. [Juifs en France pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. English] Jews in France during World War II; translated by Nathan Bracher. Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England in Association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ; Waltham, Mass.: Brandeis University Press, 2001.

  • Rakovska, Pu`ah; edited and with an introduction by Paula E. Hyman ; translated from the Yiddish by Barbara Harshav with Paula E. Hyman. My Life as a Radical Jewish Woman: memoirs of a Zionist feminist in Poland. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002.

  • Roden Claudia. The Book of Jewish Food: An Odyssey from Samarkand to New York. New York: Knopf, 1996.

  • Romeyn, Esther; Kugelmass, Jack. Let There Be Laughter! Chicago: Spertus Museum, 1997.

  • Rose, June. Daemons and Angels: a Life of Jacob Epstein. London: Constable, 2002.

  • Rozier, Gilles. Moyshe Broderzon : Un Ecrivain Yiddish d'Avant-garde. Paris: Presses Universitaires de Vincennes, 1999.

  • Shandler, Jeffrey, ed. Awakening Lives: Autobiographies of Jewish Youth in Poland Before the Holocaust. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press; published in cooperation with the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, 2002.

  • Shavit, David. Hunger for the Printed Word: Books and Libraries in the Jewish Ghettos of Nazi-Occupied Europe. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1997.

  • Simon, Andrea. Bashert: a Granddaughter's Holocaust Quest. Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 2002.

  • Soyer, Daniel. Jewish Immigrant Associations and American Identity in New York, 1880-1939. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997.

  • Stein, Sarah Abrevaya. "Illustrating Chicago's Jewish Left: The Cultural Aesthetics of Todros Geller and the L. M. Shteyn Farlag," in Jewish Social Studies, vol. 3, no. 3 (Spring/Summer 1997).

  • Stevens, Payson R.; Levine, Charles M.; Steinmetz, Sol. Meshuggenary: Celebrating the World of Yiddish. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002.

  • Strom, Yale. The Book of Klezmer: the History, the Music, the Folklore. Chicago: A Cappella, 2002.

  • Tobias, Jim G. Vorübergehende Heimat im Land der Täter: jüdische DP-Camps in Franken 1945-1949. Nürnberg: Antogo, c2002.

  • Weiner, Miriam. Jewish Roots in Poland: Pages from the Past and Archival Inventories. New York: Quality Books, 1998.

  • Weiner, Miriam. Jewish Roots in Ukraine and Moldavia: Pages from the Past and Archival Inventories. New York: Quality Books, 1999.

  • Weinberg, Robert. Stalin's Forgotten Zion: Birobidzhan and the making of a Soviet Jewish homeland: an illustrated history, 1928-1996. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.

  • YIVO Institute for Jewish Research; Jewish Historical Institute. The Power of Persuasion: Jewish Posters from Pre-War Poland. New York: YIVO; Warsaw: ZYH, 1999.

  • YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. YIVO at 75: Milestones and Treasures: An Anniversary Exhibition. New York: YIVO, 2000.

  • YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. Ida Kaminska (1899-1980): Grande Dame of the Yiddish Theater. New York: YIVO, 2001.

  • YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. Mattityahu Strashun (1817-1885): Scholar, Leader, and Book Collector. New York: YIVO, 2001.

  • Zapruder, Alexandra, ed. Salvaged pages : Young Writers' Diaries of the Holocaust. New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2002.

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