Stardust Lost: The Triumph, Tragedy, and Meshugas of the Yiddish Theater in America (50 page)

THE YIDDISH LANGUAGE

Ayalti, Hanan J.,
Yiddish Proverbs,
ed. translated from the Yiddish by Isidore Goldstick. Schocken,

Blesch, Rabbi Benjamin.
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Learning Yiddish.
Alpha Books,

Burgin, Richard.
Conversations with Isaac Bashevis Singer.
Doubleday,

Kogos, Fred.
The Dictionary of Popular Yiddish Words, Phrases and Proverbs.
Citadel,

Kresh, Paul.
Isaac Bashevis Singer: The Magician of West 86th Street.
Dial,

Kumov, Shirley,
Words Like Arrows: A Treasury of Yiddish Folk Sayings.
ed. Warner,

Lansky, Aaron.
Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books.
Algonquin,

Neugroschel, Joachim,
No Star Too Beautiful: An Anthology of Yiddish Stories from 1382 to the Present.
ed. and trans. W. W. Norton,

Rosten, Leo.
The New Joys of Yiddish.
Three Rivers,

Samuel, Maurice.
In Praise of Yiddish.
Cowles,

Shepard, Richard F., and Vicki Gold Levi.
Live and Be Well: A Celebration of Yiddish Culture in America.
Rutgers University Press,

Sinclair, Clive.
The Brothers Singer.
Allison & Busby,

Stevens, Payson R.
Mishuggenary: Celebrating the World of Yiddish.
Simon & Schuster,

Swarner, Kristina.
Yiddish Wisdom.
Chronicle,

Weinstein, Miriam.
Yiddish, a Nation of Words.
Ballantine,

Wex, Michael.
Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All of Its Moods.
St. Martin's,

JEWISH HISTORY

Allen, Frederick Lewis.
Since Yesterday: The Nineteen-Thirties in America.
Bantam,

Antin, Mary.
The Promised Land.
Random House,

Ausubel, Nathan.
Pictorial History of the Jewish People, from Bible Times to Our Own Day Throughout the World.
Crown,

Bloomfield, Sara J.
The Art and Politics of Arthur Szyk,
curated by Steven Luckert. United States Holocaust Museum,

Davidowicz, Lucy.
On Equal Terms: Jews in America, 1881–1981.
Holt, Rinehart & Winston,

Dimont, Max I.
The Indestructible Jews: An Action-Packed Journey Through 4,000 Years of History.
New American Library,

Dimont, Max I.
The Jews in America: The Roots, History, and Destiny of American Jews.
Simon & Schuster,

Dinnerstein, Leonard.
Anti-Semitism in America.
Oxford University Press,

Eban, Abba.
My People: A History of the Jews,
adapted by David Bamberger. Behrman House,

Eliach, Yaffa.
There Once Was a World: A Nine Hundred Year Chronicle of the Shtetl of Eishyshok.
Little, Brown,

Elon, Amos.
The Pity of It All: A History of Jews in Germany, 1743–1933.
Henry Holt,

Feldstein, Stanley.
The Land That I Show You: Three Centuries of Jewish Life in America.
Anchor/Doubleday,

Fried, Albert.
The Rise and Fall of the Jewish Gangster in America.
Columbia University Press,

Gantz, David.
Jews in America: A Cartoon History.
Jewish Publication Society,

Glenn, Susan A.
Daughters of the Shtetl.
Cornell University Press,

Goldberg, M. Hirsch.
The Jewish Connection.
Bantam,

Graetz, Heinrich.
History of the Jews.
Resource Publications,

Greenbaum, Masha.
The Jews of Lithuania: A History of a Remarkable Community, 1316–1945.
Gefen,

Johnson, Paul.
A History of the Jews.
HarperCollins,

Karp, Abraham J.,
Haven and Home: A History of the Jews in America.
ed. Schocken,

Karp, Abraham J.,
The Jewish Experience in America.
American Jewish Historical Society,

Leff, Laurel.
Buried by the Times: The Holocaust and America's Most Important Newspaper.
Cambridge University Press,

Lipstadt, Deborah E.
Beyond Belief: The American Press and the Coming of the Holocaust, 1933–1945.
Free Press,

Mendes-Flohr, Paul R., and Jehuda Reinharz,
The Jew in the Modern World: A Documentary History.
Oxford University Press,

Oring, Elliott.
The Jokes of Sigmund Freud: A Story in Humor and Jewish Identity.
University of Pennsylvania Press,

Plesur, Milton.
Jewish Life in Twentieth-Century America: Challenge and Accommodation.
Nelson-Hall,

Poliakov, Leon.
The History of Anti-Semitism, Volume 1: From the Time of Christ to the Court Jews.
University of Pennsylvania Press,

Potok, Chaim.
Wandering: Chaim Potok's History of the Jews.
Ballantine,

Reik, Theodor.
Jewish Wit.
Gamut,

Rosten, Leo.
Treasury of Jewish Quotations.
McGraw-Hill,

Rubenstein, Joshua, and Vladimir P. Naumov, eds., trans. Laura Esther Wolfson.
Stalin's Secret Pogrom: The Postwar Inquisition of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee.
Yale University Press,

Schoener, Alon.
The American Jewish Album, 1654 to the Present.
Rizzoli,

Schwartz, Leo W.,
The Menorah Treasury: Harvest of Half a Century.
ed. Jewish Publication Society,

Sklare, Marshall.
Observing America's Jews.
Brandeis University Press,

Spalding, Henry D.,
Encyclopedia of Jewish Humor from Biblical Times to the Modern Age.
ed. Jonathan David,

Spiro, Ken.
World Perfect: The Jewish Impact on Civilization.
Simcha,

Stahl, Sidney.
The World of Our Mothers.
Schocken,

Vital, David.
A People Apart: A Political History of the Jews in Europe, 1789–1939.
Oxford University Press,

VIDEOTAPES AND DVDS OF RELATED INTEREST

Actor: The Story of Paul Muni,

Almonds and Raisins: A History of the Yiddish Cinema,

American Matchmaker
(
Amerikaner Shadkhn
),

The Cantor's Son
(
Dem Khazns Zindl
),

The Comedian
(
Der Komediant
),

The Dybbuk,

The Forward: From Immigrants to Americans,

God, Man and Devil
(
Got, Mentsh, un Tavyl
),

The Golden Age of Second Avenue,

The Golem,

Green Fields
(
Grine Felder
),

His Wife's Lover
(
Zayn Vaybs Lubovnik
),

The Jester
(
Purimshpieler
),

Kol Nidre,

A Letter to Mother
(
A Brivele der Mamen
),

Little Mother
(
Mamele
),

Mirele Efros
(the Jewish Queen Lear),

Mothers of Today
(
Hayntike Mames
),

Tevye,

Uncle Moses,

The World of Sholem Aleichem,

The Yiddish Cinema,

A Young Jew with a Fiddle
(
Yidl Mitn Fidl
),

CDS

The Best of Yiddish Vaudeville,

Bonsche the Silent,

Ghetto Tango: Wartime Yiddish Theater,

Great Songs of the Yiddish Stage,

Joseph Buloff: On Stage,

The Yiddish Radio Project,

WEB SITES

www.Folksbiene.org

www.Jewishvirtuallibrary.org

www.brown.edu/Facilities/University_Library/exhibits/yiddish/links.html
(Yiddish Theater song sheets)

www.laits.utexas.edu/gottesman/theatreindex.html
(University of Texas Yiddish Theater background)

www.nypl.org/research/chss/jws/yiddishintro.html
(Dorot Yiddish Division of the New York Public Library)