18: Jewish Stories Translated from 18 Languages Edited by Nora Gold bilingual and compulsively readable debut novel

and compulsively readable debut novel

the tiny Jewish shtetl of Kreskol existed in happy isolation

vegetarian

Herman Kruk recorded his own experiences as well as the life and death of the Jewish community of the city symbolically called "The Jerusalem of Lithuania

displacement

18: Jewish Stories Translated from 18 Languages Edited by Nora Gold bilingual and compulsively readable debut novelThis is the first anthology of translated multilingual Jewish fiction in 25 years: a collection of 18 splendid stories, each translated into English from a different language: Albanian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Ladino, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, and Yiddish. These compelling, humorous, and moving stories, written by eminent authors that include Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Isaac