New Item: Book and 8 cds. Mit groys fargenign: hundert yor yidishe literatur / With Great Pleasure: A Century of Yiddish Writing. Compiled and edited by Heather Valencia. The book consists of prose pieces and poetry in Yiddish from the past hundred years, in various styles - humorous, dramatic, moving and lyrical. Writers from the classic Yiddish canon are included as are contemporary writers from Israel and Europe. Women writers are particularly well represented. The texts are short (ranging from about two to about ten pages) and each text is provided with a short introduction in English There is a 30 page glossary, short biographical notes on the authors, photographs of almost all the writers and suggested further reading. The book is designed to be used by individuals, reading groups or Yiddish courses. Eight CDs accompany the volume, on which the stories and poems are read by Khayele Beer, Barry Davis, Pesakh Fiszman, and Jeremy Grant. The book and the CDs are published by the Oxford Institute for Yiddish Studies, now part of the London Jewish Cultural Centre. |