Yiddish Literature In America 1870-2000

In these splendid volumes Emanuel Goldsmith as editor and Barnett Zumoff as translator have combined their enormous talents to create a first-ever anthology of Yiddish literature in Americafiction poetry and essays. Professor Curt Leviant editor Masterpieces of Hebrew Literature: Selections from Two Thousand Years of Jewish Creativity. Finally an anthology of Yiddish poetry prose and essays that introduces the English reader to the richness of Yiddish literature in America. This collection includes well-known authors like Sholem Aleichem and I. B. Singer and others like Yoni Fayn Melekh Ravitsh and Dora Teytlboym largely unknown in English translation. Barnett Zumoffs careful and fluid translations take readers on a literary and cultural odyssey that will educate surprise and delight! Sheva Zucker author of Yiddish: An Introduction to the Language Literature & Culture Vols. 1 and 2; editor of the Yiddish magazine Afn Shvel. An indispensable compendium filled with treasures reflecting brilliant encounters between Old World and New. Jeremy Dauber Professor Columbia University Yiddish Studies Department. An important contribution to the field bringing unknown treasures of Yiddish literature and thought to new readers and for that we all owe the Editor and Translator a debt of gratitude. Aaron Lansky president National Yiddish Book Center Amherst Massachusetts