Marvin S. Zuckerman

Publications connected to the Bund

Articles

  • On the Occasion of the 100th Anniversary of the Jewish Labor Bund, Los Angeles, 1997, illustrated booklet.
  • The Polish Bund Between the Wars, in: New Politics, Fall 1968, Vol. III, No. 4, Whole No. 28, p. 82.
  • Problemen fun yidishn lebm in amerike, in: Unser Tsayt, January 1974, No. 1, (384), p. 10.

Reviews

  • All Together Different. Yiddish Socialists, Garment Workers, and the Labor Roots of Multiculturalism by Daniel Katz, NYU Press, 2011, in: Jewish Quarterly, Autumn/Winter 2014, London England, pp. 116-117.
  • Jewish Politics in Eastern Europe: the Bund at 100, edited by Jack Jacobs, NYU Press & the Jewish Historical Institute (Warsaw), 2001, in: Shofar, Vol. 22, No. 4, Summer 2004, p.169.
  • Medem Sanitorye Bukh, in: The Call, March-April 1973, Vol. 42, No. 2, p.12.

Papers Delivered

  • "Erlich and Alter: Martyrs of East European Jewry" at a meeting of the Workmen’s Circle to commemorate the execution of Henryk Erlich and Viktor Alter by the Soviets in December 1941, Los Angeles, February 12, 1972.
  • "Ideyishe Enderungen in Sotsyalizm in Undzer Tsayt” for a meeting of the LA Jewish Labor Bund on the occasion of the 85th anniversary of its founding, Los Angeles, October 1982.
  • "One Hundred Years of the Bund", UCLA, 5th Conference of the International Association of Yiddish Clubs, August 1998.
  • "On the Occasion of the 100th Anniversary of the Jewish Labor Bund", at joint meeting of the Workmen’s Circle, Americans for Progressive Israel, Sholem Community Organization, and the Jewish Labor Bund, December 1997.
  • "Problems of Jewish Life in America Today" for a meeting of the LA Jewish Labor Bund on the occasion of the 74th anniversary of its founding, Los Angeles, October 31, 1971.
  • "Yiddish Politics" at the Los Angeles Jewish Federation at a two-day conference organized by UCLA-Hillel with participation of YIVO, March 1988.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

Books

  • Better College Reading. New York: Harper Collins, 1984.
  • Jiddisch 2000: Larobok for Alla, Bromma, Sweden: Megilla-Forlaget, 2000 (Swedish translation of Learning Yiddish in Easy Stages).
  • Learning Yiddish in Easy Stages. Los Angeles: Joseph Simon/Publisher, 1984; Massachussetts: National Yiddish Book Center, 2000 (3rd edition; still in print).
  • The Three Great Classic Writers of Modern Yiddish Literature—Volume I: Mendele Moykher-Sforim, Selected Writings in English Translation. Los Angeles: Joseph Simon/Publisher, 1991.
  • The Three Great Classic Writers of Modern Yiddish Literature—Volume II: Sholem-Aleykhem, Selected Writings in English Translation. Los Angeles: JosephSimon/Publisher, 1994.
  • The Three Great Classic Writers of Modern Yiddish Literature—Volume III: I.L. Peretz, Selected Writings in English Translation. Los Angeles: Joseph Simon/Publisher, 1996.
  • Yiddish Sayings Mama Never Taught You. Los Angeles: Perivale Press, 1975 (Reprinted 2011).
  • Words, Words, Words. New York: Macmillan, 1974 (still in print).

Articles

  • Capitalism with a Mentshlekh Ponem (Human Face): Learning from Other Industrial Democracies, in: Jewish Currents, Summer 2010, Vo. 64, No. 4 (658), pp.6-8.
  • Dickinson in Yiddish, in: The Emily Dickinson Journal, Vol. VI, No. 2, 1997, p. 67.
  • Kapitalizm mit a Mentshlekh Ponem, in: Undzer Tsayt, January-March 2005, Vol. 64, No. 1-3, pp. 21-25.
  • Rudolf Roker, der nit-yidisher, yiddisher anarchist, in: Afn Shvel, No. 348-349, Summer-Fall 2010.
  • "Twentieth Yortsayt" [of the Yiddish poets/writers and intellectuals murdered by the Soviet Union], Davka, Winter/Spring 1973, Vol. III, No 2,3, p. 22.
  • Yehoash, in: Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 333: Writers in Yiddish, Thomson-Gale, NewYork, London, etc., 2007, p.337.
  • Yiddish geyt in kaledzh, in: JFC Bulletin, September 10, 1979, p.16.

Reviews

  • Tiger of Time and Other Poems, by C.F. McIntyre, in: FM & Fine Arts Guide, May 1966, Vol. 7, No. 5, p.17.

Translations

  • Translation of Yiddish poem, "Abie Curly—the War Hero", by Moyshe Leyb Halpern, in: Jewish Currents, June 1971, Vol. 25, No. 6 (276), p.26.
  • Translation of Yiddish poem, "Az es regnt in Los Andzheles", by I.E. Ronch, in: Poet: An International Monthly, August 1974, Vol. 15, No. 8, Madras, India, p.17.
  • Translation of Yiddish poem, "Shteyner fun Yerushelayim", in: Poems Translated from the Yiddish, by I.E. Ronch, Los Angeles, 1981, p. 34
  • Translations of the following Yiddish poems: Yankev Glatsheyn: "Instead of You", "You Speak to Me", "The Yiddish Word"; Moyshe Leyb Halpern: "Abie Kierly, the War Hero"; Mani Leyb: "I am the Knight", "The Merchant of Pearl"; Avrom Sutskever: "The Heavenly Court"; Yankev Shmuel Toybes: "Chinese", in: Yiddish-Modern Jewish Studies: Translations II, Yiddish Verse into English, A Double Issue, Vol. 16. 3-4, Queens College, 2010, pp. 32-37, 54-57, 78-83, 184-187, 190-191.

Papers Delivered

  • "Yehoyesh Taught Yiddish to Thunder and Lighten", at MLA 124th Annual Convention, San Francisco, December 29, 2008.
  • "Jewish Humor: It’s Physiognomy", part of a series on Jewish Humor, at UCLA, April 1990.
  • "The Night of the Murdered Soviet Yiddish Poets", to the Workmen’s Circle, Los Angeles 1988.
  • "Yiddish Literature after the Holocaust: Themes and Images", at the Modern Language Association Convention in San Francisco, 1975.
  • "A Brief History of the English Language", at Channel 7 Educational TV program SCOPE, March 20, 1967.
  • At the Los Angeles Yiddish Culture Club: "Yehoyesh: Poet un iberzetser", January 2009; "A yidishe kehile geyt adurkh moderne enderungen",(with Phil Zuckerman), May 1999; "Maks Vaynraykh: Der groyser yiddisher shprakh-kenner", December 1997"; "A bagrisung undzer eygn dikhter, Moyshe Shklar", November 1997; "Y.L. Peretz: Der Shrayber un der mentsh", May 1997; "Ken men iberzetsn af andere shprakhn Y.L. Perets?", February 1997; "Mayn bazukh in Varshe tsum fuftsiksten ondenk funem Varshever geto oyfshtand", May 1993; "Akht-un-fertsik yor nokh der Varshever Geto Oyfshtand", April 1991; "Yidishe Humor", LA-YCC, January 1991; "Maks Vaynreikh: Zayn Bayshtayer tsu der Yidishe Filologye", May 1990; "Rudolf Rocker: A tshikaver fal in undzer Yidisher shprakh, literatur, un politishn lebn", January 1990; "Sholem-Aleykhem: Eynike interesante momentn in zany lebn", March 1989; "An iberblik: Zekshundert yor Yidishe literature", January 1988; "Yidish in Los Andzheles Vali Kaledzh", February 1987.