Vivi Lachs, Katie Brown, I. A. Lisky

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East End Jewish Life in Yiddish Sketch and Story, 1930-1950: Selected Works of Katie Brown, A. M. Kaizer, and I. A. Lisky

Beschreibung

Presents a selection of previously un-translated short stories and sketches by Katie Brown, A.M. Kaizer, and I.A. Lisky, for the general reader and academic alike. These intriguing and entertaining tales build a picture of a lively East-End community of the â 30s and â 40s struggling with political, religious, and community concerns.

Autor

Vivi Lachs is a social historian, Yiddishist, and research fellow at Queen Mary, University of London. She is a teacher, Yiddish singer, and the author of Whitechapel Noise (Wayne State University Press, 2018). She organizes the Yiddish Open Mic and the Great Yiddish Parade and has produced two CDs of London Yiddish songs from the old East End: Whitechapel, mayn vaytshepl, and Don't Ask Silly Questions. Vivi Lachs was a 2019 Yiddish Book Center Translation Fellow. This volume is in part a result of her fellowship.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wayne State University Press
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. November 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 396g
• ISBN-13: 9780814348475
• ISBN-10: 0814348475
• Artikelnr.: 62719323