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    Yiddish Literature in America 1870-2000: Volume 2
    Yiddish Literature in America 1870-2000: Volume 2
    Yiddish Literature in America 1870-2000: Volume 2
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    Yiddish Literature in America 1870-2000: Volume 2

    By Barnett Zumoff and Emmabuel S. Goldsmith

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    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
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris US
    Release dateApr 10, 2015
    ISBN9781499095173
    Yiddish Literature in America 1870-2000: Volume 2
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    Barnett Zumoff

    Barnett Zumoff is an internationally renowned teacher and researcher in the field of endocrinology, who has published 250 papers in that field. He currently holds the title of professor of medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York. In addition to these accomplishments in the field of medicine, he has had a long and productive career in the field of Yiddish cultural activity. He was longtime president of the Forward Association and the Workmen’s Circle and is currently president of the Congress for Jewish Culture and vice president of the Jewish National Theatre-Folksbiene. He has published twenty-one books of translation from Yiddish literature.

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