For centuries before its "rebirth" as a spoken language, Hebrew writing was like a magical ship in a bottle that gradually changed design but never voyaged out into the world. Isolated, the ancient He
For centuries before its "rebirth" as a spoken language, Hebrew writing was like a magical ship in a bottle that gradually changed design but never voyaged out into the world. Isolated, the ancient He
Hilarious and sad at the same time, Ehrlich’s collection of short stories, Who Will Die Last is an original and moving work of fiction. Ever deeply humane, the author takes his characters on a tantali
Frieden (Judaic studies, Syracuse U.) introduces short fiction about East European Jewish life, not widely available in English, by three major 19th century Yiddish writers. Two novellas represent Abr
A sophisticated, scholarly interpretation of Abramovitsh's Fishke the Lame, Sholem Aleichem's Tevye tales and Peretz's Hasidic stories retains the poetic language and Yiddish literary traditions of th
