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"The remarkable life and afterlife of the man who created Tevye"--Jacket
A comprehensive portrait of the culturally influential writer whose stories inspired Fiddler on the Roof traces his impoverished childhood, the financial struggles that inspired his literary career, his internationally mourned death and his considerable posthumous fame in the En…
"The remarkable life and afterlife of the man who created Tevye"--Jacket.
Part of the Jewish Encounters series The first general-interest biography of the legendary editor of the Jewish Daily Forward, the newspaper of Yiddish-speaking immigrants that inspired, educated, and entertained millions of readers; helped redefine journalism during its golden …
"The first general-interest biography of the legendary editor of the Jewish Daily Forward, the newspaper of Yiddish-speaking immigrants that inspired, educated, and entertained millions of readers; helped redefine journalism during its golden age; and transformed American cultur…
'From Kabbalah to Class Struggle' is an intellectual profile of Meir Wiener, an Austrian Jewish intellectual and a student of Jewish mysticism who emigrated to the Soviet Union in 1926 and reinvented himself as a Marxist scholar and Yiddish writer.
From Kabbalah to Class Struggle is an intellectual biography of Meir Wiener (1893-1941), a Austrian Jewish intellectual and a student of Jewish mysticism, who emigrated to the Soviet Union in 1926 and reinvented himself as a Marxist scholar and Yiddish writer.