The condition and uniqueness of
The condition and uniqueness of the Yiddish Children’s Books make
them ideal candidates for a digital library collection. These small, bound
storybooks intended to be held in the hands of children but now to fragile to be
handled have been brought to life in this online collection. This digital
collection of children’s books include original stories by Yiddish authors that include Sholem Aleichem, Jacob Pat, and Sholem Asch. The collection also includes Yiddish
translations of non-Jewish children’s stories by such authors as Hans Christian
Andersen, Rudyard Kipling, and Jacob Grimm. Harriet Beecher Stowe's famous
novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, is translated into Yiddish as
Feter Tom.
