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Zikhroynes un Bilder: Shtetl, Kinder Yorn, Shraybers

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ISBN-10: 0979815614

ISBN-13: 9780979815614

Edition: 2014

Authors: Jacob Dinezon, Tina Lunson, Scott Hilton Davis

List price: $19.95
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Memories and Scenes: Shtetl, Childhood, Writers is the first English translation of eleven autobiographical short stories by the 19th century Eastern European Yiddish writer, Jacob Dinezon (1852-1919). A beloved and successful Jewish novelist who championed Yiddish as a literary language, Dinezon befriended and mentored almost every major literary figure of his day, including the three classic writers of modern Yiddish literature, Sholem Abramovitsh (Mendele Moykher Sforim), Sholem Aleichem, and Isaac Leybush Peretz. Though Dinezon's place in the development of Yiddish literature has been neglected over time, the publication of these stories sets him firmly in the ranks of his fellow…    
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Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Jewish Storyteller Press
Publication date: 8/1/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 242
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Jane Peppler is a musician and Yiddish translator. Follow her research on obscure Yiddish songs of the Jazz Age at http://polishjewishcabaret.com and find her books, cds, and songbooks at http://yiddishemporium.com

Scott Hilton Davis is a life-long storyteller with a thirty-five-year career as a producer of documentaries and dramas for public television. His many awards include seven Emmys.He is the author of Souls Are Flying! A Celebration of Jewish Stories and Between Heaven and Earth, four one-act plays based on the short stories of I. L. Peretz. In 2007, Scott founded Jewish Storyteller Press to bring the works of 19th century Jewish writers to 21st century readers.His current passion is to recover the works of the once-beloved Yiddish writer Jacob Dinezon and make them available to a new generation of readers.