Number 51
Summer 2006/ 5766

Pakn Treger: The Magazine Of The Yiddish Book Center

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.

Our English-language magazine carries on the tradition of the original pakn tregers, who traveled from shtetl to shtetl in Eastern Europe bringing books and news of the outside world.

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