The Zelmenyaners: A Family Saga by Moyshe Kulbak, Introduction and notes by Sasha Senderovich textbook Influences from Tunisian and Yemeni

Influences from Tunisian and Yemeni grandmothers add unexpected depth to familiar dishes

Sometimes the narrator (Mendele the Book Peddler) speaks from within the shtetl and sometimes from outside

-- Daniel Zimmerman and Vivian Zimmerman Furman-Rubin

and tackle the tough questions that have plagued Jews and non-Jews alike for centuries

and the aftermath of the Ottoman Empire

The Zelmenyaners: A Family Saga by Moyshe Kulbak, Introduction and notes by Sasha Senderovich textbook Influences from Tunisian and YemeniTranslated by Hillel Halkin This is the first complete English language translation of a classic of Yiddish literature, one of the great comic novels of the twentieth century. The Zelmenyaners describes the travails of a Jewish family in Minsk that is torn asunder by the new Soviet reality. Four generations are depicted in riveting and often uproarious detail as they face the profound changes brought on by the demands of the Soviet regime and its