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Hanukkah Books From The Yiddish Book Center

Book cover for Meet the Latkes

The Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, MA is a nonprofit organization working to tell the whole Jewish story by rescuing, translating, and disseminating Yiddish books and presenting innovative educational programs that broaden understanding of modern Jewish identity.

Lisa Newman, Director of Communications at the Yiddish Book Center joins us this morning – as she has for the past few years – to present a great selection of Hanukkah books for the season. 

List:

  • “What You Did Not Tell: A Russian Past and the Journey Home” by Mark Mazower
  • “The Book Smugglers: Partisans, Poets, and the Race to Save Jewish Treasures from the Nazis” by David Fishman
  • “Miriam’s Kitchen” by Elizabeth Ehlrich
  • “The New Jewish Table” by Todd Gray and Ellen Kassoff Gray
  • “On the Landing” by Yenta Mash, translated by Ellen Cassedy
  • “Isaac Bashevis Singer and the Lower East Side” - photographs by Bruce Davidson
  • “A Living Lens: Photographs of Jewish Life from the Pages of the Forward” by Alana Newhouse and Pete Hamill
  • “The Borscht Belt: revisiting the remains of America’s Jewish Vacationland” by Marisa Scheinfeld and Stefan Kanfer
  • “A Rich Brew How Cafés Created Modern Jewish Culture” by Shacher Pinsker

Kids:

  • “Meet the Latkes” by Alan Silberberg
  • “The Parakeet Named Dreidel” by Isaac Bashevis Singer

The Great Jewish Books Book Club

Sarah has been a public radio producer for over fifteen years. She grew up in Saranac Lake, New York where she worked part-time at Pendragon Theatre all through high school and college. She graduated from UAlbany in 2006 with a BA in English and started at WAMC a few weeks later as a part-time board-op in the control room. Through a series of offered and seized opportunities she is now the Senior Contributing Producer of The Roundtable and Producer of The Book Show. During the main thrust of the Covid-19 pandemic shut-down, Sarah hosted a live Instagram interview program "A Face for Radio Video Series." On it, Sarah spoke with actors, musicians, comedians, and artists about the creative activities they were accomplishing and/or missing.
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