Number 54
Summer 2007/5767

Pakn Treger: The Magazine Of The Yiddish Book Center

Features

Time to Build Again: An Interview with Aaron Lansky
Terry Y. Allen
The Book Center’s optimistic founder and president talks with Terry Y. Allen about changing the face of Jewish education.
Yiddish On Israeli Streets
Benjamin Weiner
Are the language wars over? From Israel come fresh offerings in mama-loshn.

Translation

When All is Said and Done (Nokh alemen)
David Bergelson, translated by Joseph Sherman
Strong-willed Mirl Hurvitz was the first woman in Yiddish literature to act in a thoroughly modern manner.

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