Landmark Yiddish Plays: A Critical Anthology by Joel Berkowitz Yiddish Learning The shtetl was home to

The shtetl was home to two-thirds of East Europe's Jews in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

showing how bakers can do the same at home—and introduces his take on Middle Eastern daily breads like kubaneh and jachnun

Hebrew teacher father Nachum

Her luminous black-and-white and color images eloquently reveal how Eastern European Jews are honoring the past and building the future through such things as revived observances of the holidays

who won a Caldecott Medal for Where the Wild Things Are

Landmark Yiddish Plays: A Critical Anthology by Joel Berkowitz Yiddish Learning The shtetl was home toIntroduces readers to comic and tragic masterpieces spanning 150 years of Yiddish drama. Offering snapshots of a pivotal era in which the Jews of Europe made the transition from a traditional to a more modern world, the Yiddish plays translated and collected here wrestle with issues that continue to concern us today: changing gender roles, generational conflict, class divisions, and religious persecution. In their introduction to the volume, Joel