—and gives us a new and essential work about the creative process
In this first full-length biography in English
Appearing at Yidstock 2022: The Festival of New Yiddish Music
draws on her own history to create realistic characters who struggle daily to retain a sense of humanity and dignity despite the physical and psychological effects of ghetto life
this metaphor has occurred with extraordinary frequency in works by authors from a variety of ethnicities
A Treasury of Yiddish Stories by Irving Howe and Eliezer Greenberg non-media —and gives us a newThis compelling and moving collection begins with the nineteenth century founding fathers of Yiddish literature Mendele Mocher Sforim, Sholom Aleichem, and I. L. Peretz and moves forward in time to include the works of Sholem Asch, I. J. Singer, Abraham Reisen, and I. B. Singer. Many of the pieces deal with shtetl life in Eastern Europe, but others concern themselves with the Holocaust, rebellion against orthodoxy, or Jewish immigration. Anonymous