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Poor Matza : Selected stories of Avrom Reisen translated from the Yiddish by Harvey Fink

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  • Author: Reisen, Abraham
    Contributor: Fink, Harvey; Skulski, David
    Edition: Unabridged
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    2013
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    Avrom Reisen (1876-1953) was an acclaimed and prolific Yiddish poet and short story writer for the American Yiddish dailies. This is a superb translation by Harvey Fink of some of Reisen's best short stories. At the time of Reisen's death, the Jewish Spectator wrote: "There are many Yiddish writers who owe their success to Reisen's encouragement. For years he published and edited, under great sacrifices, Yiddish journals with the primary aim of providing a platform for young, struggling writers... He had no arrogance, no pretensions and no personal vanity." This is the third of Harvey Fink's works of translation. He has also translated, `From Man to Man' and `That Is How It Is' - works of Moishe Nadir.

    Original Publisher: [New Westminster, B.C.], Post Hypnotic Press
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 1927401577, 9781927401576