Ellen Cassedy’s longing to recover the Yiddish she’d lost with her mother’s death eventually led her to Lithuania, once the “Jerusalem of the North.” As she prepared for her journey, her uncle, sixty
A Yiddish Book Center Translation In these sixteen stories, available in English for the first time, prize-winning author Yenta Mash traces an arc across continents, across upheavals and regime change
Lempel (1907?1999) was one of a small number of writers in the United States who wrote in Yiddish into the 1990s. Though many of her stories opened a window on the Old World and the Holocaust, she did
"[These] stories give English readers an unprecedented opportunity to delve into a substantial body of prose by Blume Lempel, an important voice in post?World War II Yiddish letters." ?Jeffrey Shandle
