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THE FORGOTTEN SINGER is a firsthand account of the tumultuous life of Esther Singer Kreitman - the forgotten sister of I.J. and Isaac Bashevis Singer.THE FORGOTTEN SINGER: THE EXILED SISTER OF I. J. AND ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER is made up of 46 evocative snapshots that portray what life was like for Esther Singer Kreitman, an important writer living in the shadow of her famous brothers. It's also a meditation on the mother-son relationship, a fai...

...कविता....कविता सत्य का वह क्षण है। कुछ शब्द जो कल के बारे में आपने जो महसूस किया था, उसे विशिष्ट रूप से चुनौती देते हैं। महत्वाकांक्षी रूप से अच्छी तरह से पारंगत वाक्यों की संख्या जो जीवन को एक अद्वितीय लेकिन विशेष परिप्रेक्ष्य में रखती है। कभी-कभी कोई काव्यात्मक क्षण आपको शुरुआत में ही बांध लेता है। अन्य समय में कविता आपको उस चीज से मुक्त कर देती है जो अब मौलिक रूप से मायने नहीं रखती और जो मायने रखती है उसकी अनंत संभावना को खोल देती है। कविता उस हवा की पहली...

WRITINGS ON YIDDISH AND YIDDISHKAYT: THE WAR YEARS, 1939-1945 is the first major effort to fill the gap between the Nobel laureate's Yiddish and English oeuvre. Knowing that a whole world, a whole way of life, a whole cultural treasure bound up with Yiddish and Yiddishkayt--that they were all going up in flames before his very eyes--was crushing for Singer, driving him to put pen to paper and write. His wartime writing--appearing in an intense...

Montage: A selection of works by Debora Vogel, 1902-1942"--

The worst was definitely behind me. I'd survived my childhood, which was really saying a lot. It was time for me to enjoy life as a college student. Party with some friends, flirt and maybe even date a nice guy. It was time for me to move away from my past. When my twenty-first birthday approached, however, my mother's past returned to claim something that should be rightfully mine. I always thought it was hard having a mother that told me dem...

Isaac Leybush Peretz (1852-1915) is one of the most influential figures of modern Jewish culture. Born in Poland and dedicated to Yiddish culture, he recognized that Jews needed to adapt to their times while preserving their cultural heritage, and his captivating and beautiful writings explore the complexities inherent in the struggle between tradition and the desire for progress. This book, which presents a memoir, poem, travelogue, and twent...

Isaac Leybush Peretz (1852-1915) is one of the most influential figures of modern Jewish culture. Born in Poland and dedicated to Yiddish culture, he recognized that Jews needed to adapt to their times while preserving their cultural heritage, and his captivating and beautiful writings explore the complexities inherent in the struggle between tradition and the desire for progress. This book, which presents a memoir, poem, travelogue, and twent...

WRITINGS ON YIDDISH AND YIDDISHKAYT: THE WAR YEARS, 1939-1945 is the first major effort to fill the gap between the Nobel laureate's Yiddish and English oeuvre. Knowing that a whole world, a whole way of life, a whole cultural treasure bound up with Yiddish and Yiddishkayt--that they were all going up in flames before his very eyes--was crushing for Singer, driving him to put pen to paper and write. His wartime writing--appearing in an intense...

The first in a playwright series by White Goat Press, SHOLEM ASCH: UNDERWORLD TRILOGY includes three of Asch's Yiddish dramas - taking place in the world of the criminals and the literal underworld - that had successful and influential debuts on the Yiddish stage in 1907, 1917, and 1922.

In June, 1941, sixteen-year-old Lena Jedwab left Bialystok for summer camp in Russia - just when Germany invaded the Soviet Union.Stranded by war in a children's home in Russia, Lena agonized over the unknown fate of her family and her precarious future. Lucky to be alive, nourished, and in school, yet consumed with anger at the war and the confusion of adolescence, Lena began to keep a diary. The diary chronicles her personal experiences of l...

In 1934, with World War II on the horizon, Jacob Glatstein (1896-1971) traveled from his home in America to his native Poland to visit his dying mother. One of the foremost Yiddish poets of the day, he used his journey as the basis for two autobiographical novellas--The Glatstein Chronicles--in which he intertwines childhood memories with observations of growing anti-Semitism in Europe"--P. [4] of cover.

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Available in English translation for the first time, DINEH, posthumously published, is an autobiographical Yiddish-language novel by Ida Maze (1893-1962). DINEH is a pastorale laced in beauty and sorrow and a bildungsroman told from the point of view of a young girl. Set entirely in what is now Belarus, Maze's eponymous heroine is fueled by her hunger for learning, connection to family and community, and love of the natural world.Fiction. Jewi...

Translated by Daniel Kennedy. Available for the first time in a new English translation, Nomberg's stories explore modern Jewish life in the growing cosmopolitan city of Warsaw: young intellectuals in pursuit of truth, beauty, and love, working class fathers tempted by schemes for easy money, teenagers divided between their traditional religious upbringings and the world of secular culture and political revolution. By turns comic, satiric, and...