Book signing at CYCO Publishing, 25 East 21st Street, NYC. 6pm Wed. July 13, 2005
1.Ven der golem hot farmakht di oygn. When the Golem Closed His Eyes. By Boris Sandler. Outstanding new historical novel about the Keshenev pogrom. A gripping, intense, and vivid work that was extremely well received at this year's "Yidish-vokh". By the young editor of the Forverts (Yiddish Forward). 2004, H. Leyvik Farlag, Tel-Aviv. Hardcover, $25.00 other cyco offerings: 2. Zibn yor un zibn khadoshim (Seven Years and Seven Months). By Yekhil Shraybman. New novel by one of the foremost Yiddish writers of our time, with an introduction by Boris Sandler. 2003, Farlag Ruksanda, Kishenev, Moldova. Hardcover, $25. 3. Yidishe muzik in poyln tsvishn beyde velt-milkhomes (Jewish Music in Poland Between the Two World Wars) by Yisakhar Foter. This seminal work explores the origins of Jewish music in interwar Poland, including liturgical, folk, classical, and theater, as well as the influence of Jewish music on music in general. 1970, World Federation of Polish Jews, Tel-Aviv. Harcover. $25. 4. Workers and Revolutionaries: The Jewish Labor Movement. Book of the exhibit at Beth Hatefusoth, Museum of the Jewish Diaspora. Featuring historical photographs and documents of Jewish labor history worldwide. 1994, Beth Hatefusoth, Museum of the Jewish Diaspora, Tel-Aviv. $25.00, Oversize Paperback. 5. About Mother: Yiddish Poets Speak. Translated by Barnett Zumoff. Bilingual collection of Yiddish poetry about mothers. 2003, Congress for Jewish Culture, New York. $10.00 6. Ikh gedenk. I Remember. By Ita Taub. Eloquent and moving autobipgraphy of a woman's life in the shtetl Stidenitse. 2001, Vulture Press, New York. $15.00 7. In shtile shoen / In Quiet Hours. Poems by Gele Shveyd Fishman. A collection of poetry in Yiddish with accompanying transliteration expressing the mature voice of an American-born, Jewishly dedicated woman moving through a modern maze of relationships and rhythmic passages of time. 2002, KTAV Publishing House, Hoboken, NJ. $15.00 8. Elegy for My People: Memoirs of an underground courier of the Jewish Labor Bund in Nazi-occupied Poland, 1939-1945. By Jacob Celemenski, translated from Yiddish by Gershon Freidlin. Gripping wartime memoir of a Bund activist's resistance work.2000, Jacob Celemenski Memorial Trust, Melbourne. $15 9. Di yidishe drame fun tsvantsikstn yorhundert/ Yiddish Drama of the 20th Century. The essential collection for Yiddish theatrical and reading groups. Volume 1: Gordin, Sholem-Aleichem, Pinski, Kobrin. Volume 2: An-Ski, Hirshbein, Leivick, Peretz. 1977, Congress for Jewish Culture, New York. $18/ volume. 10. Kotsk, by Abraham Joshua Heschel. Writings by one of the most important Jewish philosophers of all time in two volumes. 1973, Ha Menorah, Tel-Aviv. $30/volume. 11. Prophecy of the Inner Eye, by Abraham Sutzkever. A masterful collection of Yiddish stories from one of the greatest Yiddish writers of all time. In Yiddish. Reprinted with permission of the author by CYCO, 2003. $15 12. Sudden Rain / Plutsemdiker Regn, by Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath. Stirring poems by this modern Yiddish poet in a bilingual edition. English translations by Zachary Sholem Berger and Jeffrey Shandler. Yiddish/English. "Israel Book" Publishing House, 2003. $15 13. Di katz der payats (The Cat in the Hat), by Dr. Seuss, translated into Yiddish by Sholem Berger. A delightful translation of the children's classic story. 24th Street Books, 2003. $15 14. Jerusalem Almanac, Number 27. A new collection of Yiddish writings on literary and social issues featuring a variety of modern writers. Edited by Dov-Ber Kerler. Published by The Vilna Yiddish Institute at the University of Vilna and by the Young Yiddish Center of Jerusalem, 2003. $30 15. Prophecy of the Inner Eye, by Abraham Sutzkever. A masterful collection of Yiddish stories from one of the greatest Yiddish writers of all time. In Yiddish. Reprinted with permission of the author by CYCO, 2003. $15 Hy Wolfe Executive Director CYCO Publishing House 25 East 21st Street 3rd Floor New York, NY 10010 Tel: 212 505-8305 Fax: 212 505-8044 Located in the ATRAN CENTER for JEWISH CULTURE Hours: Tuesdays & Thursdays 10:30 AM - 4 PM and by appointment. Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the AJL =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
