Text & Translation
ייִדישע שטעטלעך פֿון פּוילן
Jewish Towns of Poland
Chaim Grade
Translation by Julian Levinson
The opening section of a Grade’s collection Shayn fun farloshene shtern (Shine of Extinguished Stars, 1950).
Mar 25, 2019
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