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(0)Jacob Glatstein
Author
Language
English
Description
Edited by Ruth Wisse, translated by Maier Deshell and Norbert Guterman
This seminal American work from the Yiddish literary canon, in a restored English edition, offers the luminous narrative of the author's journey home to his Polish birthplace. In 1934, with World War II on the horizon, Jacob Glatstein (1896 –1971) traveled from his home in America to his native Poland to visit his dying mother. One of the foremost Yiddish poets of the day,...
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In Vienna, Austria, in 1940, two nine-year-old boys, one Jewish and one Aryan, are classmates and best friends when events of the Nazi occupation draw them even closer together as they fight to survive and escape together.