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All Rivers Run to the Sea, Memoirs
• Elie Wiesel
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel recounts his remarkable life, from his childhood in Romania to the horrors of Auschwitz, his days as a young writer in post-war France and New York, and his many pilgrimages to Israel.
(EUR153, $16.00)
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The Art of Polish Cooking
• Alina Zeranska
• Janina Domanska
• FOOD
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A book brimming with Polish recipes and food traditions.
(PLD15, $21.00)
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Berlitz Polish Phrase Book & CD
• Berlitz Multimedia
• LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
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A 224-page phrase book and audio CD, this handy language primer focuses on food, people, fun and the basic phrases for getting around in another language. Compatible with iPod and MPS devices, this bestselling series is geared for travelers.
(PLD69, $14.95)
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Birds of Europe
• Killian Mullarney
• Lars Svensson
• Dan Zetterstrom
• Peter J. Grant
• FIELD GUIDE
• FAVORITE
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A Princeton field guide to European birds, featuring 3,500 color illustrations that depict 722 species found across the continent.
(FG47, $29.95)
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Breathing Under Water and Other East European Essays
• Stanislaw Baranczak
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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Essays on writers and writing from an Eastern European intellectual and poet.
(EUR139, $12.50)
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The Captive Mind
• Czeslaw Milosz
• LITERATURE
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Milosz's best-known prose work demonstrates how citizens experience totalitarianism.
(PLD30, $14.00)
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Cat in the Ghetto, Stories
• Rachmil Bryks
• LITERATURE
• COMING IN OCTOBER
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A poignant and darkly comic portrait of life in the Lodz ghetto and Auschwitz by a survivor, these stories were first published in 1959.
(CEU39, $14.00)
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Central Europe, Enemies, Neighbors, Friends
• Lonnie Johnson
• HISTORY
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An academic survey of the social, political, and economic past of Central Europe, and the conflicts that stir modern-day European politics.
(EUR69, $39.95)
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Chopin in Paris, The Life and Times of the Romantic Composer
• Tad Szulc
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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A biography of the famed composer Fryderyk Chopin.
(FRN161, $18.95)
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Chopin's Funeral
• Benita Eisler
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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A skillfully written biography of the composer. Eisler starts with an evocative description of Chopin's lavish funeral before moving backward into his troubled life.
(PLD60, $14.95)
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Christians in the Warsaw Ghetto, An Epitaph for the Unremembered
• Peter F. Dembowski
• HISTORY
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Dembowski, a veteran of the Warsaw uprising, draws on personal experience, thorough research and previously untranslated texts to bring to life a forgotten chapter in the history of World War II.
(PLD59, $18.00)
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Clara's Grand Tour, Travels With a Rhinoceros in Eighteenth-century Europe
• Glynis Ridley
• HISTORY
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The entertaining history of an Indian rhinoceros named Clara, who was brought to Europe in 1741 by a Dutch sea captain and toured for seventeen years, to the delight of several heads of state.
(FRN536, $12.00)
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Concise History of Poland
• Jerzy Lukowski
• Hubert Zawadzki
• HISTORY
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A brief, straightforward chronological history of Poland from its medieval roots, through the partitioning of the country in 1795, and up to the present day. With maps and illustrations.
(PLD44, $24.99)
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The Cossacks, An Illustrated History
• John Ure
• HISTORY
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In this lively, beautifully illustrated overview, a career diplomat (and frequent visitor to the region) explores the history of the Cossacks in Southern Russia and central Asia and their role in world affairs.
(RUS135, $45.00)
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Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century and After
• R. J. Crampton
• HISTORY
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A well-written, insightful scholarly country-by-county history of modern Eastern Europe.
(EUR273, $42.95)
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Eastern Europe Map
• Freytag & Berndt
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A detailed travel map of Eastern Europe and the Black Sea, at a scale of 1:2,000,000.
(EUR36, $11.95)
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Eat Smart in Poland
• Joan B. Peterson
• GUIDEBOOK
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This food-oriented guidebook has as its subtitle: How to Decipher the Menu, Know the Market Foods & Embark on a Tasting Adventure.
(PLD45, $12.95)
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The Faithful River
• Stefan Zeromski
• Bill Johnston
• LITERATURE
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An acclaimed novel set during the 1863 Polish uprising against Russian rule.
(PLD31, $16.95)
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Fatelessness
• Imre Kertesz
• Tim Wilkinson
• LITERATURE
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This powerful novel by a Pulitzer Prize-winner tells the story of a teenage boy deported from Hungary to the Nazi death camps in 1944. It's drawn from Kertesz's own experiences in Auschwitz and Buchenwald.
(CEU26, $13.95)
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Fires of Hatred, Ethnic Cleansing in Twentieth-Century Europe
• Norman M. Naimark
• HISTORY
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This illuminating study focuses on five cases where genocide was a matter of government policy in 20th-century Europe.
(EUR179, $20.50)
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Fodor's Poland
• Fodor's Guides
• GUIDEBOOK
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A practical guide in the popular series, packed with valuable information on accommodation, shopping, sights and dining.
(PLD72, $19.95)
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Germany and Poland from Historical Confrontation to Partnership Relationships
• Z. Anthony Kruszewski
• HISTORY
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A collection of essays.
(CEU22, $49.95)
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God's Playground, A History of Poland, 1795 to the Present
• Norman Davies
• HISTORY
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Volume II of Davies' comprehensive, scholarly history.
(PLD64, $30.00)
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God's Playground, A History of Poland, The Origins to 1795
• Norman Davies
• HISTORY
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The first volume of Davies' comprehensive, authoritative history of Poland.
(PLD67, $30.00)
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The Gothic Enterprise, A Guide to Understanding the Medieval Cathedral
• Robert A. Scott
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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An accessible overview of the medieval cathedral, its history, design and architecture with black-and-white photographs.
(EUR190, $17.95)
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Great Country Houses of Poland
• Lord Michael Pratt
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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An in-depth and illustrated guide to some of Poland's magnificent castles and estates.
(PLD57, $39.95)
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Here Is Where We Meet
• John Berger
• LITERATURE
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This novel weaves a portrait of several European countries through encounters with the dead, from the narrator's mother, whom he discovers on a park bench in Lisbon, to a childhood friend wandering a market in Krakow.
(EUR189, $14.00)
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Historical Atlas of Central Europe
• Paul Mogocsi
• HISTORY
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An atlas illuminating the shifting borders and alliances in the region.
(EUR33, $45.00)
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Insight Guide Poland
• Insight Guides
• GUIDEBOOK
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A handsomely illustrated guide to Poland, featuring essays of history, culture and economy, as well as practical information for the traveler. Includes 15 helpful maps and numerous color photographs.
(PLD14, $23.95)
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Inventing Eastern Europe, The Map of Civilization on the Mind of Enlightenment
• Larry Wolff
• HISTORY
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The author, a professor of history, looks back to Catherine the Great, Rousseau, Voltaire and Western (mis)perceptions of Eastern Europe during the late 18th century.
(EUR34, $29.95)
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Knopf Mapguide Warsaw
• Knopf Guides
• GUIDEBOOK
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A handy set of full color, ingeniously folded maps, each indicating favorite sites, shops, restaurants and attractions.
(PLD52, $9.95)
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Krakow Map
• Daunpol
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A folded city map of Krakow with an inset map of the city center at 1:10,000, along with a metropolitan area and regional map.
(PLD42, $7.95)
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Lonely Planet Central Europe
• Krzysztof Dydnski
• Steve Fallon
• Anthony Haywood
• Mark Honan
• GUIDEBOOK
• BEST SELLER
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This comprehensive regional guide covers Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Poland and their neighbors in detail. With maps, color photographs and information on history, culture and attractions.
(EUR94, $28.99)
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Lonely Planet Eastern Europe
• Lonely Planet
• GUIDEBOOK
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This practical regional guide covers from Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic to the Baltic States, Belarus, the Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria and the Balkans.
(EUR72, $28.99)
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Lonely Planet Poland
• Dydynski Krzysztof
• GUIDEBOOK
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A practical, comprehensive guide in familiar Lonely Planet style.
(PLD36, $24.99)
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Madame Curie, A Biography
• Eve Curie
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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A life of the Polish-French scientist, written by her daughter.
(PLD27, $20.95)
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Mammals of Europe
• Priscilla Barrett
• David W. MacDonald
• FIELD GUIDE
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Published by Princeton, this is a field guide to land and marine mammals throughout Europe, both endemic and introduced. With more than 600 color illustrations of over 200 mammals.
(FG61, $34.95)
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Milosz's ABCs
• Czeslaw Milosz
• Madeline G. Levine
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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A dictionary, of sorts, of things that matter to Milosz.
(PLD26, $24.00)
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Miracle Fair, Selected Poems
• Wislawa Szymborska
• Joanna Trzeciak
• Czeslaw Milosz
• LITERATURE
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Selections from the Nobel Prize-winning poet's oeuvre.
(PLD29, $24.95)
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Monologue of a Dog, New Poems
• Wislawa Szymborska
• LITERATURE
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Nobel laureate Syzmborska ruminates on both past and present in this imaginative, evocative collection of poems, whichincludes both the original Polish and the English translation.
(PLD65, $22.00)
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Night
• Elie Wiesel
• Marion Wiesel
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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An moving account of a Jewish boy's terrifying experience during the Holocaust.
(EUR79, $9.00)
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Night
• Marion Wiesel
• Elie Wiesel
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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A new translation of Wiesel's powerful account of the horrors of the Holocaust.
(EUR222, $19.95)
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The Northern Wars: War, State and Society in Northeastern Europe, 1558-1721
• Robert I. Frost
• HISTORY
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A scholarly, detailed history of the struggle over Estonia, Livonia and control of the Nordic-Baltic region during the 16th-18th centuries, a highly militarized period in the region's history.
(BLT15, $51.60)
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Pimsleur Quick & Simple Polish
• Pimsleur Language Method
• LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
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Four audio CDs with eight 30-minute lessons in basic Polish, covering elementary vocabulary and phrases used in travel and everyday situations.
(PLD47, $19.95)
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The Polish Country Kitchen Cookbook
• Sophie Hodorowicz Knab
• FOOD
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An collection of Polish recipes, seasoned with supplemental information on the nation's history and culture.
(PLD61, $24.95)
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Polish, A Language Map
• Kristine K. Kershul
• LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
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This durable, foldout card, featuring 1,000 words and phrases, works as a quick reference for travelers.
(PLD48, $7.95)
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Polish, Start Speaking Today
• Language/30
• LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
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A 90-minute crash course in Korean, featured on compact disc with a phrasebook.
(PLD55, $21.95)
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Pope John Paul II
• Tad Szulc
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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A sympathetic portrait of the Pope by the New York Times reporter who has also written biographies of Fidel Castro and Frederic Chopin.
(PLD39, $7.99)
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A Question of Honor: The Kosciuszko Squadron, Forgotten Heroes of World War II
• Lynne Olson
• Stanley Cloud
• HISTORY
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The riveting history of the No. 303 "Kosciuszko" Polish Fighter Squadron, an all Polish unit of the Royal Air Force formed during WWII.
(PLD56, $29.95)
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Return to Diversity: A Political History of East Central Europe Since World War II
• Joseph Rothschild
• HISTORY
• HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE
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An opinionated, well-written and clear political history of Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Romania, Bulgaria and Albania since WWII, completely revised for this third edition to reflect post-Soviet realities.
(EUR31, $34.95)
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Rick Steves' French, Italian & German Phrase Book & Dictionary
• Rick Steves
• LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
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A compact phrase book for travelers, organized thematically and with a brief dictionary.
(EUR142, $9.95)
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A Roadside Dog
• Czeslaw Milosz
• Robert Haas
• LITERATURE
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A marvelous collection of verse, essays, aphorisms, and short prose poems by the Nobel laueate.
(PLD46, $14.00)
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Travelers' Tales, A Woman's Europe
• Marybeth Bond
• Mary Morris
• ANTHOLOGY
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Visit Europe through the eyes of women writers, including Frances Mayes and Jan Morris.
(EUR160, $17.95)
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Two Cities: On Exile, History, and the Imagination
• Adam Zagajewski
• LITERATURE
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A series of lyrical essays by the influential poet.
(PLD38, $18.95)
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Tzili, The Story of a Life
• Aharon Appelfeld
• Dalya Bilu
• LITERATURE
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The moving story of a young Jewish girl whose family accidentally leaves her behind when they flee Poland. Like Tzili, the author is a Holocaust survivor.
(PLD13, $12.00)
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Warsaw Map
• Insight Maps
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A laminated, full-color map of the city center of Warsaw at a scale of 1:23,500. With regional maps and travel information.
(PLD41, $7.95)
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With the Armies of the Tsar, A Nurse at the Russian Front in War and Revolution, 1914-1918
• Frances Farmborough
• HISTORY
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A WWI memoir by a witness to the Russian revoltuion.
(RUS139, $19.95)
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Woman from Hamburg And Other True Stories
• Hanna Krall
• Madeline G. Levine
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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Krall reveals the lives and strange trajectories of her compatriots in these poignant stories, profiles and interviews of survivors of WWII.
(PLD49, $14.95)
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Yiddish Civilisation, The Rise and Fall of a Forgotten Nation
• Paul Kriwaczek
• HISTORY
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A warm, witty and anecdotal history of Yiddish as a language and culture in central and eastern Europe.
(EUR208, $15.95)
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Yiddish Folktales
• Beatrice Weinreich
• LITERATURE
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A collection of 178 tales, many very short, of princesses and witches, dybbuks and wonder-working rebbes, gathered during the 1920s and 1930s by ethnographers in the small towns and villages of Eastern Europe.
(CEU33, $18.00)
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