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Pakn Treger
Fall 2003/5764 (Number 43)
FEATURES
A Bridge Across the Continents
by Mark L. Smith
Poignant, quaint, somber, or startling, Yiddish book dedications are
more than they appear.
 A Stone Under History’s Wheel
by Samuel Kassow (2,233K PDF)
Resistance comes in many forms and from unexpected sources.
In the Warsaw ghetto, a Jewish historian forged meaning out of
destruction, and wrote it all down.
A Wig, a Fence, and One White Horse (1333K PDF)
How do you make a movie when nobody cares? Joan Micklin Silver talks
with critic Kenneth Turan about Hester Street and how it really happened.
An American Tragedy
by Steve Vineberg
Capturing the Friedmans disturbed audiences and riled the media. Can this family’s story be unraveled?
War, Hope, and the Yiddish Tin Pan Alley by Eytan Uslan
Take a closer look at those lyrics and that tune – you might find history.
TRANSLATION
From The Zelmenyaners
by Moyshe Kulbak (458K PDF)
Hillel Halkin offers a preview of Kulbak’s never-before-translated novel about Jewish life in Soviet Russia, forthcoming from the New Yiddish Library.
 Listen to this story in the original Yiddish!
14 minutes. (MP3, 3.27 MB)
DEPARTMENTS
- From the Editor
- A Bintl Brief
- Field Notes
- Calendar – Coming Events at the Book Center
- Words Like Arrows by Shirley Kumove
- From Our Collection Yehoshua Perle’s Achievement
by Binyomin Weiner
- Baym Tsenter: News from the National Yiddish Book Center
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