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Book SynopsisA Yiddish Book Center Translation In these sixteen stories, available in English for the first time, prize-winning author Yenta Mash traces an arc across continents, across upheavals and regime changes, and across the phases of a woman's life. Mash's protagonists are often in transit, poised "on the landing" on their way to or from somewhere...
Trade ReviewEllen Cassedy has done marvelous work combing through Mash's four collections to select these stories and bringing them to life in an English that honors the beauty and texture of the author's vision. Highly recommended for all libraries.
* Association of Jewish Libraries Reviews *
Mash's compact stories draw from her difficult life—including her experiences in the Siberian gulag, her postwar decades in Kishinev and her immigration to Israel in the 1970s. These small gems give voice both to the insufficiently documented story of Jewish deportees in Siberia and to the unique experience of Bessarabian Jews.
* J. The Jewish News of Northern California *
Each story is a gem. Mash's narrative skill is quietly astonishing.
* Jewish Book Council *
Mash's collection keeps us alert to the riches to be discoveredshowing us the many worlds in which Yiddish thrived and suffered in the twentieth century.
* In Geveb *
Yenta Mash's stories are a must—a reminder that, through the persecutions in the Russian Pale, 'something very important has been lost,' but also that something strong survives.
* Foreword Reviews *
Dor ayn, dor oys, der emes blaybt! (From one generation to the next, the truth will out!)
* Yiddish Branzhe *
An important contribution... much appreciated.
* Yiddish Forverts *
Small gems.
* jweekly.com *
The stories provide nuanced insight into their perspectives and psychology, perhaps it is the extremity of many of the stories' settings that draws the reader's attention to the universal and away from the particular.
* Los Angeles Review of Books *
