The Tears and Prayers of Fools: A Novel by Grigory Kanovich Yiddish Learning and applications of a rich

and applications of a rich but previously unknown herbal tradition--one hidden by language barriers

Sonata in Auschwitz by Luize Valente Translated from Portuguese by Claudio Bethencourt

Shtetl: A Vernacular Intellectual History traces the trajectory of writing about these towns—by Jews and non-Jews

Glaser proposes

at the age of sixty-two

The Tears and Prayers of Fools: A Novel by Grigory Kanovich Yiddish Learning and applications of a richTranslated by Mary Ann Szporluk This extraordinary novel is part of Grigory Kanovichs Litvak saga, his tribute to Jewish life before the Holocaust. Set in a small Lithuanian town in the late nineteenth century, the story begins with the arrival of a stranger who sets everyone on edge and seems to know their secrets. Is he a messenger from God, a long lost son, a saint, or a madman? As the stranger in the velvet yarmulke makes his rounds, we meet an