Pakn Treger, Number 51 | Yiddish Book Center

Number 51

Summer 2006/ 5766

Features

Poetry of the Margins: Ben Katchor, Mark Mulcahy, and “The Rosenbach Company”

Eric Henry Sanders

A brilliant new pop musical performed at the Yiddish Book Center.

Packing Up a Library

Robert Adler Peckerar

The Book Center travels to Uruguay to rescue Yiddish books.

Translation

Making the Mill Kosher

Peretz Hirshbein, translated by Nahma Sandrow

A child’s view of preparing for Passover in a tiny Lithuanian village.

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