My Mother's Sabbath Days: A Memoir
Chaim Grade
(Author)
Channa Kleinerman Goldstein
(Translator)
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Description
This tender and moving memoir by the great Yiddish writer Chaim Grade takes us to the very source of his widely praised novels and poems_the city of Vilna, the 'Jerusalem of Lithuania, ' during the years before World War II
Product Details
Price
$55.19
Publisher
Jason Aronson
Publish Date
May 01, 1997
Pages
416
Dimensions
6.05 X 9.01 X 0.93 inches | 1.19 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781568219622
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Chaim Grade, who died in 1982, was the author of numerous works of prose and poetry in Yiddish. Some of these have been translated into English including the novels The Yeshiva, The Agunah, The Well, and The Seven Little Lanes, a memoir of the Holocaust. His first work of prose to appear in English was the philosophical dialogue My Quarrel with Hersh Rasseyner. Born in Vilna, Lithuania, in 1910, Mr. Grade came to the United States in 1948 and lived in New York City with is wife, Inna. He received many prizes and awards, including the B'nai B'rith Jewish Heritage Award for Excellence, the Morris Adler Prize of the American Academy of Jewish Research, and the Remembrance Award of the World Federation of Bergen-Belsen Associations.