Sponsored by The Grolier Club Feb 15, 6:30-8:00pm EST Throughout the first half of the 20th century, a literature for Yiddish-speaking children flourished on four continents. A traveling rabbi shares his Sabbath with a friendly lion; an engraved olive branch traces a century-long arc of exile and repatriation to the Holy Land; a boy tries […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Join The Grolier Club as Translator Deborah A. Green and Aaron Lansky, Yiddish Book Center founder and president, have a conversation to celebrate the release of a translation of writings by the poet, translator and literary journalist S. L. Shneiderman (1906-1996), Journey Through the Spanish Civil War: The Hinterlands (White Goat Press). Note: this is […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club The debut of a new English translation of Yiddish novels starring the fictional Viennese detective Max Spitzkopf. In early 1900s pulp fiction, the Viennese detective Max Spitzkopf was an undefeated foe of villains and passionate defender of the Jewish people. When he is summoned, no matter how dangerous or seemingly […]