Description
Book SynopsisWhen the young narrator of Miriam Karpilove’s
A Provincial Newspaper leaves New York to work for a new Yiddish newspaper in Massachusetts, she expects to be treated with respect as a professional writer. Instead, she finds herself underpaid and overworked.
Trade ReviewThese wonderful and unique stories describe a Jewish world rarely seen in Yiddish letters, a world of women writers and dreamers. Kirzane’s translations bring these stories to life for the contemporary reader." - Allison Schachter, Vanderbilt University
"An important work of feminist excavation that is so much more fun than that phrase implies, giving us a chance to read the words of a lively, complex writer in her prime. Kirzane’s translation makes the Yiddish inflections sing with life, and made me feel a warm connection to a writerly foremother I barely knew before." - Sarah Seltzer, executive editor,
Lilith MagazineTable of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Translator’s Note
- Introduction
- Part 1. A Provincial Newspaper
- Part 2. My Three Years in the Land of Israel
- Part 3. Other Stories
- A Marriage and a Divorce
- In a Country Town
- Just Like the Young Folks Do
- Man and Radio
- Perfectly Suited
- A Promise Kept
- Victims of Love
- They Both Were Married
- Good News—and Bad
- We’re People, After All
- From the Same Yikhes
- A Clever Mother
- Old Sarah
- The Old Man Ran Away
- A Kosher Swimming Pool (A Scene in Coney Island)
- The Shadkhn
- She Was in Paris
- The Invitation
- For a Bit of Respect
- Glossary
