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Lunch in Translation | From the Jewish Provinces by Fradl Shtok. Conversation with the book’s translators, Allison Schachter and Jordan Finkin
Allison Schachter | Jordan Finkin
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Lunch in Translation | From the Jewish Provinces by Fradl Shtok. Conversation with the book’s translators, Allison Schachter and Jordan Finkin
Featuring: Allison Schachter | Jordan Finkin
From the Jewish Provinces showcases a brilliant and nearly forgotten voice in Yiddish letters. An insistently original writer whose abrupt departure from the literary scene is the stuff of legend, Fradl Shtok composed stories that describe the travails of young women looking for love and desire in a world that spurns them. These women struggle with disability, sexual violence, and unwanted marriage, striving to imagine themselves as artists or losing themselves in fantasy worlds. The men around them grapple with their own frustrations and failures to live up to stifling social expectations. Through deft portraits of her characters’ inner worlds Shtok grants us access to unnoticed corners of the Jewish imagination.
Presented as part of the Yiddish Book Center’s 2022 Decade of Discovery: Women in Yiddish.
This event took place on July 19, 2022. It was presented online by the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, MA.
This recording was digitized and added to the library in November 2022.
This recording is in English
