In 1934, with World War II on the horizon, writer Jacob Glatstein (1896–1971) traveled from his home in America to his native Poland to visit his dying mother

“My dear children, I write this for you in case your dear children or grandchildren come to you one of these days, knowing nothing of their family. For this r

In 1944, the Yiddish poet Abraham Sutzkever was airlifted to Moscow from the forest where he had spent the winter among partisan fighters. There he was encourag

This remarkable volume introduces what is probably the most coherent segment of twentieth-century American literature not written in English. Includes a bilingu

A Finalist for the 2016 National Jewish Book Award Forty-two stories from America’s greatest Yiddish newspaper, in English for the first time. The Forward, fo