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A Writer in the Spa: Identifying Jacob Glatstein’s Protagonist
Monika Adamczyk-Garbowska
In his novel Ven Yash iz gekumen, Jacob Glatstein wrote a Poland both familiar and strange, and peopled it with characters based on the real-life literary figures and historians he met in the spa town of Nałęczów.
Jan 25, 2017
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Yiddish, Translation, and a World Literature To-Come
Saul Noam Zaritt
In geveb’s founding editor discusses different models of Yiddish in relation to world literature through the figures of Sholem Asch and Jacob Glatstein.
Jan 23, 2017