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Yiddish literature is the body of written and performed works originally composed in Yiddish—or closely rooted in Yiddish-speaking culture—and the translations of those works into other languages; as a book category it spans fiction, poetry, drama, memoir, folklore and essays that chronicle and imaginatively render the life, language, beliefs and struggles of Ashkenazi Jewish communities from the 19th century to the present. Characterized by vivid depictions of the shtetl and urban immigrant experience, rich humor and irony, religious and secular debate, modernist experimentation, and profound responses to catastrophe (including Holocaust testimony and memory), the category includes canonical figures such as Sholem Aleichem, S. An-sky, Chaim Grade, Abraham Sutzkever and Isaac Bashevis Singer as well as contemporary Yiddish writers and translators. In a catalog or bookstore the label signals works that explore Jewish identity, folklore, social and political movements, and the particular linguistic and cultural texture of Yiddish life, offered in original-language editions, bilingual editions, or translations.

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