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87 minutes
Hardcover 1990
Unterzakhn (Yiddish for “Underthings”) tells the story of these sisters: as wide-eyed little girls absorbing the sights and sounds of a neighborhood of struggling immigrants
In the Polish city of Lodz
The Slowpoke Express
The Wishing-Ring by Mendele Mokher Sefarim, Michael Wex Yiddish Learning 87 minutesIn this work Michael Wex renders the time honored tale with the skill and ease of a modern storyteller and humorist. Abramovitsh's artistry lies not in the plot but in the descriptions and ever shifting narrative voice. Sometimes the narrator (Mendele the Book Peddler) speaks from within the shtetl and sometimes from outside; and often he interweaves the high rhetorical prose of Hershl himself, reborn by the novel's end as Heinrich Cohen. Yiddish in
