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A Yiddish Cultural Dictionary for the Twenty-First Century. An English-Yiddish Lexicon.
In progress. With cover by Giedrė Beconytė.



     
   

East Broadway to Whitechapel
Yiddish stories by Dovid Katz. Selected and translated by Barnett Zumoff. Noir Press: Nottingham 2025. With cover by Rimantas Dichavičius.

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Mikháleshik Yizkor Book.
Online yizkor book for Mikháleshik (Michalishek; today: Michalishki, Belarus)



     
    The Book of Esther
Translated from Biblical Hebrew into Lithuanian Yiddish by Dovid Katz.

Cover by Giedrė Beconytė. 36 pp. Published in memory of Rivke Katz: Vilnius 2020.


     
   

Aynshteyn fun Svir un andere dertseylungen (Einstein from Svir and Other Yiddish Short Stories)
Cover by Giedrė Beconytė. 227 pp.
H. Leyvik Publishers: Tel Aviv 2019 [2020] (in Yiddish).

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    The Book of Ruth
Translated from Biblical Hebrew into Lithuanian Yiddish by Dovid Katz.

Cover by Giedrė Beconytė. E. L. Chait: Vilnius 2017

     
    Books of the Bible in Lithuanian Yiddish
In progress. With covers by Giedrė Beconytė.

     
   

Yiddish and Power
Palgrave MacMillan 2015, 340 pp. Maps and charts by Giedrė Beconytė.

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    Ostjüdische Geschichten aus dem alten Litauen.
Yiddish stories by Dovid Katz. Selected and translated by Melitta Depner. Salon: München 2012.

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    City in the Moonlight: Stories of the Old-time Lithuanian Jews.
Yiddish stories by Dovid Katz. Selected and translated by Barnett Zumoff. Ktav: New York 2012.

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    Seven Kingdoms of the Litvaks, 61 pp.
International Cultural Program Center: Vilnius 2009.

     
    Windows to a Lost Jewish Past: Vilna Book Stamps, 100 pp.
Versus Aureus: Vilnius 2008.

     
    Words on Fire. The Unfinished Story of Yiddish.
Maps and charts by Giedrė Beconytė.
Basic Books: New York 2004, 446 pp. [xvi + 430].
Second (revised) edition: New York 2007, 512 pp. [xviii + 494].

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    Lithuanian Jewish Culture, 400 pp. folio + large map.
Maps and charts by Giedrė Beconytė.
Baltos lankos: Vilnius 2004.
Second (updated and revised) edition, 400 pp. folio + large map. Baltos lankos in cooperation with Central European University: Vilnius 2010.

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    Nóah Anshel dell’altro mondo. Traduzione dall’yiddish di Erri De Luca (Noah Anshel from Paradise. Translated from the Yiddish by Erri De Luca), 45 pp.
Libreria Dante & Descartes: Naples 2002.
[bilingual Yiddish and Italian text]
     
    Misnagdishe mayses fun Vílner gubernye (Tales of the Misnagdim in Vilna Province), 204 pp.
Yerusholaimer Almanach Press: Jerusalem 1996. [in Yiddish]

Stories from the book online:
Gershom of Shumsk: Yiddish  English  German  Polish
Noah Anshel from Paradise: English  German  Lithuanian  Polish
Rivtsha from Tanya:   English  German Lithuanian Polish
The Angel of Death goes on Trial: Yiddish
The Angel from Martsibal: Yiddish
The Idol Worshipper: Yiddish



     
  Editor, Oksforder Yidish III (Oxford Yiddish III), 996 columns (folio).
Oxford Yiddish Press: Oxford 1995. [in Yiddish]

 
     
    Tikney Takones. Fragn fun yidisher stilistik (Amended Amendments. Issues in Yiddish Stylistics), 356 pp. Oxford Yiddish Press: Oxford 1993. [in Yiddish]

English contents
Yiddish contents

 
     
    Der flakher shpits. Mayses fun Vilner gubernye (The Flat Peak. Tales from the Province of Vilna), 188 pp.
Three Sisters Press: Rowen, Wales 1993. [in Yiddish]

Stories from the book online:
Witch’s Gold: Yiddish English

     
    Eldra Don un andere mayses (Eldra Don and other Yiddish Short Stories), 191 pp.
Three Sisters Press: Rowen, Wales 1992. [in Yiddish]



Stories from the book online:
Rasa Gravestone: Lithuanian
     
    Compiler, Klal-takones fun yidishn oysleyg (Code of Yiddish Spelling), 55 pp.
Oxford Yiddish Press: Oxford 1992. [in Yiddish]

     
    Editor, Oksforder Yidish II (Oxford Yiddish II), 316 pp.
Harwood Academic Publishers: Chur 1991. [in Yiddish]

 
     
    Editor, Oksforder Yidish I (Oxford Yiddish I), 406 pp.
Harwood Academic Publishers: Chur 1990. [in Yiddish]

 
     
    Editor, Dialects of the Yiddish Language [= Winter Studies in Yiddish, volume 2 = Papers from the Second Annual Oxford Winter Symposium in Yiddish Language and Literature, 14-16 December 1986], 123 pp.
Pergamon Press: Oxford 1988.

     
    Editor, Origins of the Yiddish Language [= Winter Studies in Yiddish, volume I = Papers from the First Annual Oxford Winter Symposium in Yiddish Language and Literature, 15-17 December 1985], 145 pp.
Pergamon Press: Oxford 1987.

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    Grammar of the Yiddish Language, 290 pp.
Gerald Duckworth and Co: London 1987.

     
   
Explorations in the History of the Semitic Component in Yiddish, vol 1: xviii + 1-358 pp; vol. 2: 359-607 pp.
University of London PhD, 1982.

 
   
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