Odessa In a powerfully imagined Russia at the height of the pogroms, a grief-stricken family turn to ancient magic to bring their daughter back from the grave. Yetta is a bright, quick teenage girl with a wild, searching spirit. Stifled by her mother’s anxiety, her father’s rules, and […]
Sons and Daughters From “one of the greatest—if not the greatest—contemporary Yiddish novelists” (Elie Wiesel), the long-awaited English translation of a work, Tolstoyan in scope, that chronicles the last, tumultuous decade of a world succumbing to the march of modernity “It is me the prophet laments when he […]
Moshkeleh the Thief: A Rediscovered Novel Author: Sholem Aleichem Genre: Yiddish Literature Publication Date: September 1, 2021 Publisher: The Jewish Publication Society Thank you to Edelweiss for providing me an ARC of this book. I am offering my honest opinion voluntarily. CONTENT WARNING: antisemitism This first English translation […]
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