The Jerusalem Post Blogs5d
Rescued from the archives and wrestled into print: Behind Chaim Grade's last Yiddish novel
The result, a sprawling 600-plus-page book about a rabbi in 1930s Lithuania and the different paths taken by his children, is ...
The Last Great Yiddish Novel
The impossibility of conveying in ordinary Yiddish the experience of walking through the empty streets of one’s eradicated civilization pushes Grade into a biblical register. His mother’s home is ...
How the Yiddish writer Chaim Grade’s last novel was rescued from the archives, and wrestled into print
Sixty years after he first began serializing it in the Yiddish press, and 42 years after publisher Alfred A. Knopf acquired ...
The Forward10d
100 years after its founding, can a Yiddish institute serve a people who don’t speak the language?
YIVO had several homes in its early days in the United States. The library ... or a recent online talk with author Adam Kirsch about how Israel doesn’t meet the standard of “settler ...
The New York Times28d
Pierre Joris, Translator of the ‘Impossible’ Paul Celan, Dies at 78
The “untranslatability” of late Celan “is a truism in critical discussion,” the poet and critic Adam Kirsch wrote in The ... He brings us very close to Celan at work, shows him leading ...
In defense of protest in Trump’s America | The Old Guy
"Do I support the Palestinian protestors call for the destruction of Israel? Certainly not. Do I think they are being ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency6d
How the Yiddish writer Chaim Grade’s last novel was rescued from the archives, and wrestled into print
The result, a sprawling 600-plus-page book about a rabbi in 1930s Lithuania and the different paths taken by his children, is “quite probably the last great Yiddish novel,” the critic Adam ...