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Availability:In StockContributor:Peretz Hirshbein, Leonard Wolf (Translator), Joel Berkowitz (Translator)Publish date:1/14/2025Pages:295
Language:EnglishPublisher:White Goat PressISBN-13:9798990998025UPC:9798990998025Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, TravelBook Subcategory:Literary Figures, Memoirs, Essays & TraveloguesSize:9.00 x 5.90 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.9502Product ID:SCT7YMRD6G
My Childhood Years: A Memoir by Peretz Hirshbein
Born in 1880 to a family of flour millers outside of Kleshtshel (Kleszczele), a town then part of the Russian Empire and now in northeast Poland, Peretz Hirshbein was a Yiddish playwright, novelist, journalist, travel writer, and stage director whose work was pivotal to the development of Yiddish theater in the early twentieth century. The rustic setting of his youth provided the backdrop for...
Language:EnglishPublisher:White Goat PressISBN-13:9798990998025UPC:9798990998025Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, TravelBook Subcategory:Literary Figures, Memoirs, Essays & TraveloguesSize:9.00 x 5.90 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.9502Product ID:SCT7YMRD6G
Joel Berkowitz is Professor of English and Director of the Sam & Helen Stahl Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. A historian of the Yiddish theater and translator of Yiddish drama, he is the author of Shakespeare on the American Yiddish Stage, editor of Yiddish Theatre: New Approaches, and co-editor of Landmark Yiddish Plays and Inventing the Modern Yiddish...
Publisher: White Goat Press
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Peretz Hirshbein, Leonard Wolf (Translator), Joel Berkowitz (Translator)
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