It provides a selected listing of books in English on the Yiddish-speaking labor and radical movements in Europe and the United States. It provides a more complete listing of Tamiment's Yiddish-language holdings in order to facilitate researchers' efforts to browse a category not easily searchable in library catalogs using standard methods. Yiddish titles appear in English transliteration. However, some transliteration in this guide does not employ the YIVO system.
Inconsistent transliteration stems from several factors.
First, the YIVO system became widely accepted only recently, after many libraries began cataloging Yiddish books. Related to this is the fact that many organizations and publications began using transliterations of their names in addition to their Yiddish names rather early on. Feel free to reproduce and distribute this guide, but please remember to give us credit. Comments, criticisms, and suggestions are welcome. Materials Web Pages Return to the Top of this page.