Landmark Yiddish Plays: A Critical Anthology by Joel Berkowitz Yiddish Learning the magazine of the Yiddish

the magazine of the Yiddish Book Center

acculturation

showing how bakers can do the same at home—and introduces his take on Middle Eastern daily breads like kubaneh and jachnun

Hardcover 2008

who won a Caldecott Medal for Where the Wild Things Are

Landmark Yiddish Plays: A Critical Anthology by Joel Berkowitz Yiddish Learning the magazine of the YiddishIntroduces readers to comic and tragic masterpieces spanning 150 years of Yiddish drama. Offering snapshots of a pivotal era in which the Jews of Europe made the transition from a traditional to a more modern world, the Yiddish plays translated and collected here wrestle with issues that continue to concern us today: changing gender roles, generational conflict, class divisions, and religious persecution. In their introduction to the volume, Joel