This book responds to a need that readers and students of Yiddish have felt keenly over the years. Too often our access to Yiddish literature has been through yellowing old editions or blurry photocopies, while those living in areas distant from libraries with a Yiddish collection are left with very little possibility of gaining access to works in the original. For the student, original editions of Yiddish novels, poems and stories are rather daunting; wild variations in spelling convention and an absence of notes or explanations of abstruse Hebrew words or phrases make comprehension difficult.
There have been few publications which provide a selection of annotated texts with a glossary, suitable for readers who are not completely fluent in the language and are still in the process of learning. Mit Groys Fargenign is such a book. Here you will find an anthology of shorter pieces of Yiddish writing with footnotes on each page clarifying difficult points of language or commenting on interesting cultural items, together with an extensive glossary. The book is accompanied by eight compact discs on with the stories and poems are brought to life by readers of native-speaker standards.
