Selected Yiddish Plays Vol. I Edited by Ellen Perecman Dictionaries Released in 1949

Released in 1949

Makes a great gift for holiday party hosts

and you will recognize their relations in many of the synagogues we know today

Aliza Shevrin's fluid translation captures the idiomatic richness of the original Yiddish and brings Sholem Aleichem's vanished culture to vibrant life

the newspaper of Yiddish-speaking immigrants that inspired

Selected Yiddish Plays Vol. I Edited by Ellen Perecman Dictionaries Released in 1949Selected plays by Sholem Aleichem, Sholem Asch, I. D. Berkowitz and Peretz Hirshbein. All but one of these plays were written between 1904 and 1907. The work explores themes of social conscience, modernity confronting tradition and cultural legacy. Editor Ellen Perecman is the executive director of New Worlds Theater Project, a non profit theater company in New York City dedicated to exploring and preserving in English the rich vein of Yiddish