Number 55
Fall 2007 / 5768

Pakn Treger: The Magazine Of The Yiddish Book Center

Features

Do You Know What Time it Isn't?
Eddy Portnoy
Newly discovered drawings by Zuni Maud, the ultimate Yiddish Bohemian.
A Room Named Ruth
Ruth Behar
A Cuban-born anthropologist seeks her lost Jewish home.

Translation

Summoned Home
Jacob Glatstein. Translated by Maier Deshell. Introduction by Ruth Wisse
The great poet's autobiographical novel, forthcoming from the New Yiddish Library.

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