"I AM A JEW!" - Ikh bin a Yid By Dmitry Yakirevitsh "I AM A JEW!". A song-collection by composer Dmitry Yakirevich - heroical, lyrical, humorous, children's songs. Contains a historical review of the singing-culture of the Jews, beginning from the 15th century. The comments for the transliteration and the phonological aspect (in English and in Russian) will help you to learn the Theatre's Yiddish language, which was in use at the times of the great Shlomo Mihoels on the Soviet Yiddish scene. The song-collection is illustraited by Itella Mastbaum. The price, including the handling and shipping, is $60. One can order the book by the following address: Dmitry Yakirevich, Yosef Nedava, 22/3, Pisgat Zeev, Jerusalem, 97781, Israel. Tel.: 972-2-585-84-26. "Ikh bin a Yid!". Lider-zamlung fun kompozitor Dmitry Yakirevitsh - heroyishe, lirishe, shpasike, kindershe zinglider. Anthalt a historishn iberzikht (in yidish, english un rusish) vegn der kultur fun gezang ba yidn, onheybndik fun 15 yorhundert. Di bamerkungen vegn transliteratsie un benegeye dem fonologishn aspekt (in english un in rusish) veln helfn bahershn dos stsenishe yidishe loshn, velkhe iz geven ongenumen ba di tsaytn funem groysn yidishn aktyor Shloyme Mikhoels af der sovetisher yidisher bine un in radio. Kinstlerishe oysfuremung fun der lider-zamlung: Itele Mastbaum. Der prayz, arayngerekhnt hetsoes far ibershikn di zamlung, iz $60. Men kon bashteln di zamlung loytn folgndikn adres: Dmitry Yakirevich, Yosef Nedava, 22/3, Pisgat Zeev, Jerusalem, 97781, Israel. Tel.: 972-2-585-84-26. The Book of Klezmer: The History, The Music, The Folklore By Yale Strom List Price: $28.00 Our Price: $19.60 You Save: $8.40 Availability: Usually ships within 24 hours Yale Strom has been doing extensive field research among the Jews and Rom (Gypsies) of Eastern Europe for the last 20 years. His work has resulted in 6 photo-documentary books (i.e. The Last Jews of Eastern Europe, Uncertain Roads: Searching for the Gypsies), 3 documentary films (i.e. The Last Klezmer, Carpati) nad 8 klezmer CDs. Yale's latest klezmer CD is GARDEN OF YIDN on the Naxos World label and will have a new one out spring 2003 called: "JEW ZOO" on the same label. Yale's new book: The Book of Klezmer takes the reader from the 14th century to the present times examining how the music and the musician developed. The book has phtographs, oral histories and music in it never before published and interviews from such luminaries as Joel Grey, Theodore Bikel, Leonard Nimoy, Andy Statman and John Zorn. The 380 page book has a beautiful Chagall print as it's cover. 2000 Idiomatic Expressions in Yiddish By Yosef Gori The thousands of people studying Yiddish around the world now have a new tool thanks to Dr. Yosef Guri of the Russian and Slavic Studies Department of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. After three years of intensive work, Dr. Guri has completed a book of 2000 Yiddish idioms with translations into English, Hebrew, and Russian and semantic and other indexes. 2000 Idiomatic Expressions in Yiddish, which is being distributed by the Hebrew University Magnes Press, is for all the Yiddish lovers in the world, Dr. Guri said. 2000 Idiomatic Expressions in Yiddish is much larger and more scientific than Dr. Guri's previous dictionaries and is intended for a wider audience. The book can be ordered directly from the Magnes Press via email magnes@huji.ac.il or fax (972-2-563-3370). It also is available at university and popular bookstores. Denying History: Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened and Why Do They Say It? By Michael Shermer, Alex Grobman, Arthur Hertzberg List Price: $40.95 Our Price: $40.00 Availability: Usually ships within 24 hours Denying History, provides the answers to those who contest the very existence of the holocaust or its scope. If you have ever or think you will ever have to confront somebody arguing the Holocaust never happened or questioning the validity of Jewish memory this book will provide you with the answers. But this book goes one step further by analyzing how history is revised for political and ideological purposes allowing the reader to evaluate many other things going on around us today which, if left alone, will deeply impact our future. A book you MUST read and actually even learn. This book stands on the Jewish tradition of providing the refutations to those who attack the credibility of our historic memory. In its deepest sense this books strives to defend historic truth and the honor of the Jewish People In its practical usage you can use this book to reply to all those questioning the existence of the Holocaust Too Young for Yiddish By Richard Michelson, Neil Waldman (Illustrator)es List Price: $15.95 Our Price: $11.17 You Save: $4.78 Availability: Usually ships within 24 hours A recommended book for teens and young parents. Although some of the concepts seem to be extreme (such as all was bad in Europe, we where all unhappy always, etc.) at the end, the positive encouraging message stands up and makes this nice little booklet a recommended reading for all those looking for an entry key to Yiddish. Shakespeare on the American Yiddish Stage - (Studies in Theatre History and Culture) by Joel Berkowitz Our Price: $$32.95 Availability: Usually ships within 24 hours An extremely interesting book. Not only because of the information it provides about Shakespeare plays in Yiddish but also because of the 'secondary' information it provides regarding Jewish customs during the first half of this century. For example did you know there where 3 Yiddish theaters in New York? Did you know one had 2,000 seats, a second 2,500 and the third 3,500 seats and they all had DAILY presentations? This book will take through the Shakespearean world via the street in the NY East Side. A most unexpected and welcome approach you'll all enjoy. Read an Editorial Review. Eat First -- You Don't Know What They'll Give You by Sonia Pressman Fuentes Our Price: $22.99 Availability: Usually ships within 2 to 3 days Sonia Pressman Fuentes - Speaker, Author, "Eat First--You Don’t Know What They’ll Give You, The Adventures of an Immigrant Family and Their Feminist Daughter" 11928 Frost Valley Way Potomac, MD 20854-2879 e-mail: spfuentes@earthlink.net Website: http://www.erraticimport.com/fuentes Tel: 301-340-1108 Fax: 301-340-6118 Handbook of Language and Ethnic Identity by Joshua Fishman (Editor) Our Price: $19.95 Availability: Usually ships within 24 hours This volume presents a comprehensive introduction to the connection between language and ethnicity. Since the "ethnic revival" of the last twenty years, there has been a substantial and interdisciplinary change in our understanding of the connection between these fundamental aspects of our identity. Can Threatened Languages Be Saved? by Joshua Fishman (Editor) Our Price: $39.95 Availability: Usually ships within 3 to 5 days This is an execellent reference for local language advocates, language policy specialists working for national and international bodies, and academic researchers and their students in sociolinguistics who want to understand what is happening to the smaller languages of the world. Say It in Yiddish By Uriel Weinreich, Beatrice Weinreich List Price: $3.95 Our Price: $3.95 Availability: Usually ships within 24 hours Irregardless, this is a handly little book. The book is tiny and designed to fit in a shirt pocket, hence the tiny price. There is an index of words and there are major sections such as "parts of the body" and "business" and "restaurant" vocabulary. Vini-Der-Pu : A Yiddish Translation of Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne, Leonard Wolf (Translator), Ernest H. Shepard (Illustrator) List Price: $35.94 Our Price: $26.85 You Save: $9.09 Availability: Usually ships within 24 hours Add Yiddish to the thirty-one languages into which A. A. Milne's classic Winnie-the-Pooh has been translated. Follow our Bear as he climbs the tree in search of honey (Krakh! "Oy gevalt!") and as he sings "Cottleston Pie" (translated here Varshever, varshever, varshever tort). And savor Ernest H. Shepard's memorable black-and-white illustrations. Der kleiner prints (The Little Prince, El Pricipito, Le petit Prince) Antoine de Saint-Exupery List Price: EUR 16,50 Our Price: EUR 16,50 Availability: Usually ships in 2-3 Weeks Der finfter planet iz geven zeyer a tshikaver. Er iz geven der klenster fun ale. Dort iz geven plats bloyz far a lamtern un a lamtern-ontsinder. Der kleyner prints hot nisht gekent farshteyn tsu vos ken toygn, ergets vu in himl,oyf a planet on shtiber un on bafelkerung, a lamtern un a lamtern-ontsinder. Dokh, hot er getrakht: "S'ken zayn az der man iz absurd. Dokh, iz er nisht azoy umzinik vi der meylekh, vi der balgayvenik, vi derbiznesman un vi der trinker. Lekhol-hapokhes, hot zayn arbet a zinen. Ven er tsindt on zayn lamtern, iz es vi er volt geshafn a nayem shtern, oder a blum. Un ven er farlesht zayn lamtern, vert farloshn di blum oder der shtern. Dos iz zeyer a sheyne basheftikung. S'iz nutslekh, vayl es iz sheyn." Shmul un Shmerke By Charles Nydorf, and Elinor Robinson's "Shmul un Shmerke" a Yiddish translation of the Adventures of Max und Moritz in this illustrated 68 page edition featuring full Yiddish text AND complete transliteration into English letters List Price: EUR 12,00 Our Price: EUR 12,00 Availability: Usually ships in 2 - 3 working days. Oy, vi oft hert men ba layt shlekhts fun kind in undzer tsayt! Ot fun aza por mir veysn, vos zey shmul un shmerke heysn. Shtots tsu muser zikh tsuhern, un tsu mitsves zikh tsu kern, flegn zey besod zayn lakhers, un dertsu nokh khoyzek-makhers; ober ale minim shlekhts tut men freylekh, on a krekhts: Tshepen vild, mit groys hefkeyres, mentsh un khaye, roybn peyres. Dos iz zikher ongenemer, un s'iz oykhet vayt bakvemer vi tsu geyn in shul tsi kheyder, dortn zitsn shtil keseyder. Ober vey iz mir, oy vey, az dem sof derfun ikh ze! dos iz gor a shlekhte zakh. Shmul un shmerke -- vey un akh! dos katoves vos zey traybn vel ikh molnaykh un shraybn.

Di Gueshikhtes fun Pinye Shtroykop (The adventures of Pinye Strawhead ) By Heinrich Hoffmann, Walter Sauer List Price: EUR 12,00 Our Price: EUR 12,00 Availability: Usually ships within 2-3 working days. Vitsike mayses un komishe bilder Übersetzt von Charles Nydorf und Elinor Robinson Herausgegeben von Walter Sauer Dortn shteyt er, ze, Pinye Shtroykop, fe! Di negl zayne shnaydn geyt im ayn oysmaydn take shoyn kimat a yor, un er kamt oykh nit di hor. M’kukt oyf im arop _ Dem Pinye Shtroykop. In die dozike oysgabe hobn di mekhabrim nisht nor a nayem shprakhlikhn kostyum gegebn dem Struwwelpeter; zey hobn mit reykhe eynfaln farzetst di mayse in der kulturele atmosfere fun shtetl. Azoy gefinen mir do a yidishn nusakh velkher trogt mit zikh an eygene pasndike kulturele identitet. In bukh steyt der yidisher text in lataynishe bukhshtabn tsuzamen mitn text geshribn mitn hebreyshn alef-beys. 48 zaytn, mit ale farbike bilder, a glosar un a bagleytungs-vort fun Ignats Bubis.

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