and acquaintances that they left behind
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
Appearing at Yidstock 2022: The Festival of New Yiddish Music
Around this core narrative of reform and crisis in Hasidic leadership
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 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