In geveb: a Journal of Yiddish Studies, 2021
A serialized translation of Zusman Segalovitsh's 1922 novel, to be published in 18 instalments in early 2021.
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Snuggly Books
June 2021
ISBN 9781645250685
$15.00 US
pp 174
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Translated from the Yiddish
Selected from volumes 1, 2, 3 and 4 of gezamlte verk
Snuggly Books 2021
These eight stories centre around a motley cast of wanderers and exiles: modern Jews who have left their homes to join Europe's counterculture of bohemians, artists, aesthetes and freethinkers. Tales of rivalry, debauchery and revenge in the Western European diaspora; mournful happenings on snowy mountain peaks; the comings and goings of various oddballs and outcasts in émigré boarding houses, and the pangs of immigrant nostalgia.
What people are saying:
“Kennedy renders Nomberg’s Yiddish into impeccable English prose . . . The resulting translation is absorbing."
— Irina Dumitrescu, Times Literary Supplement
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