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Pakn Treger
Fall 2004/5765 (Number 46)
FEATURES
 From Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books by Aaron Lansky
(3,243K PDF)
Pakn Treger presents excerpts from Aaron Lansky’s acclaimed new book about his early adventures on the road and the remarkable people he met along the way.
In the Bond of Life by Catherine Madsen
Town by town and name by name, survivors of the Holocaust painstakingly compiled records of the Jewish world that had been destroyed and created permanent memorials.
The Family Kaplan by Beth Kaplan
(3,524K PDF)
How to make sense of growing up in Halifax, Nova Scotia, with an atheist Jewish father, an Anglican Mum, and a great-grandfather known to the world as the Shakespeare of the Jews.
TRANSLATION
“Pour Out Thy Wrath” by Lamed Shapiro
(4650K PDF)
Forthcoming from the New Yiddish Library: The Jewish State and Other Stories, the works of the first Yiddish writer to unflinchingly depict physical violence against the Jews, as well as their tragic responses.
 Listen to this story in the original Yiddish!
23 minutes. (MP3, 5.5 MB)
DEPARTMENTS
- From the Editor
- Calendar Coming Events at the Book Center
- Words Like Arrows by Shirley Kumove
- Geshikhtes by Catherine Madsen
- Baym Tsenter: News from the National Yiddish Book Center
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