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On translating The Zelmenyaners - a classic Yiddish work

We visit with scholar Sasha Senderovich to learn about "The Zelmenyaners," one of the great comic novels of the twentieth century, now in a new English translation by Hillel Halkin. The translation, published by the New Yiddish Library, is a collaboration between Yale University Press and the Yiddish Book Center.

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