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Review of Itsik Manger's Book of Paradise, transl. Robert Adler Peckerar

A pas­sion­ate social crit­i­cism can only be born from care for the soci­ety one crit­i­cizes and a deep famil­iar­i­ty with both its beau­ty and its flaws.

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Review Once There Was Warsaw by Ber Kutsher, transl. Gerald Marcus

Kutsher’s mem­oir is not just a mem­oir of his life but a mem­oir of a city long gone. Writ­ten orig­i­nal­ly in Yid­dish in 1955 after Kut­sher sur­vived the Holo­caust and left Poland, it reads more like a yizkor book than a per­son­al memoir.

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Review of Ben Gold’s Your Comrade, Avreml Broide, A Worker’s Life Story, translated by Annie Sommer Kaufman

A valu­able fea­ture of Avreml Broide is the chance it offers to take a deep dive into the world of twen­ti­eth cen­tu­ry rad­i­cal left activism to under­stand essen­tials of the CPUSA as an Amer­i­can subculture.

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Review of Warsaw Testament by Rokhl Auerbach, trans­. Kassow

This is a water­shed entry into the Eng­lish canon of Holo­caust testimony.

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Review of Dovid Bergelson's "Die Welt möge Zeuge sein": Erzählungen

This col­lec­tion of trans­lat­ed sto­ries presents a new side of David Bergel­son to Ger­man readers. 

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Review of Moyshe Kulbak's Ale lider un poemen, edited by Siarhej Šupa

In two vol­umes, Siarhej Šupa brings Moyshe Kul­bak’s com­plete poet­ry to read­ers in the Yid­dish orig­i­nal, Belaru­sian trans­la­tion, and Latin transliteration.

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Review of Montage: Works by Debora Vogel, trans. Lyubas

This small hard­cov­er book is a per­fect gem for those who want to intro­duce them­selves to Vogel’s poetry.

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