Pakn Treger, Number 60 | Yiddish Book Center

Number 60

Fall 2009 / 5770

Features

Esther Schor

Does idealism need a language all its own? In a letter of 1905, Ludovik Lazarus Zamenhof wrote: "My Jewishness has been the main reason why, from earliest childhood, I have given my all for a single great idea, a single dream -- the dream of unity of humankind."

In Front of the Iron Curtain

David Shneer

Yiddish in East Germany

Translation

The Architects of My Soul

Shea Tenenbaum. Translated by Laurie Liberty

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