and acquaintances that they left behind
—and gives us a new and essential work about the creative process
In this first full-length biography in English
moving between the internal Jewish world and the cultures of Christian Europe and America
a novel approach to the study of belles lettres in Ladino and their relationship to their European sources
A Treasury of Yiddish Stories by Irving Howe and Eliezer Greenberg non-media and acquaintances that they leftThis 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