
The Knobl un Honik Bibliotek is a cute mobile bicycle library, offering free resources to connect to the long and rich history of Yiddish culture.
Some titles include:
– the full Batwoman Comic Omnibus
-zines beautifully illustrating the story of Holocaust survivors in Izzie Gordon’s (1929-2021) You Have to Go On, and Szloime Kowarski’s My Friend Vitold Kievlitch (a Bundle of Memories) published by the Free Print Shop in San Francisco
-All My Mother’s Lovers, a lighter read about a queer Jewish woman whose mother passes away suddenly and leaves behind mysterious letters to all their lovers
-The Daring and Dangerous Life of Eve Adams (Jonathan Ned Katz) about the brilliant Jewish anarchist Eve Adams who ran a cafe and published an early book about Lesbians called Lesbian Love, for which she was deported back to Europe, and resulted in her eventual murder at Auschwitz
-English Translations of Yiddish short stories by local Yiddishists Faith Jones and Rachel Mines
-Moyshe Kulbak’s The Zelmanyaners
-an illustrated Simple Gimpl by Isaac Beshevis Singer
-And many more titles, magazines, and booklets (around 75 resources can be carried around on the bike at one time).
If you have a recommendation, gift you’d like to offer the Bibliotek (cute crocheted objects are most welcome), or would like to have the bibliotek at one of your events, please reach out to knoblunhonik@proton.me
