Click Here to Read: Serving up a blast from a Yiddish-writing past. On the occasion of her 100th birthday, American author Bel Kaufman, granddaughter of Sholem Aleichem, summons up personal memories of the life of the illustrious Yiddish writer By Tamar Rotem on the Haaretz website on September 28, 2011.
Bel Kaufman
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Rafah Nashed
Click Here to Read: A Review of What Is Madness? by Darian Leader, reviewed by Jacqueline Rose in the Guardian UK on September 28. 2011.
L’shonetoyve tikoseyvu by I. L. Peretz. Translated from the Yiddish
by Max Rosenfeld
L’shonetoyve tikoseyvu –
Everyone, wherever you are!
Whether fate has played you ill
And sent you to the steppes afar,
Or whether, cooling fevered brow,
Before the Western Wall you stand.
Whether on the distant seas.
You’re sailing to a promised land.
Or whether, with a patient smile,
You bear the heavy yoke with ease
And buy the very air to live Continue reading Happy New Year
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Click Here to Read: Uncertain Jew: An Egyptian exile considers Jewish identity—and his own—in a cosmopolitan world. Excerpted from the new essay collection Alibi By André Aciman on the Tablet website on September 26, 2011.
