Inheritance (Yerushe) by Peretz Markish New Year While some sought to appropriate

While some sought to appropriate traditional Jewish literary forms

and even a closely guarded recipe—as she recreates what it was like to be raised in the fishbowl of a round-the-clock family operation

the stories in this book emphasize a breadth of content

Janet Burstein argues that American Jewish writers since the 1980s have created a significant literature by wrestling with the troubled legacy of trauma

Nobel laureates S

Inheritance (Yerushe) by Peretz Markish New Year While some sought to appropriateBilingual Yiddish & English text Translated by Mary Schulman This collection brings together in English the work of Peretz Markish, one of the most gifted and remarkable Jewish poets of the Soviet Union. Suffused with a consciousness of suffering, homelessness, and inevitably the Holocaust, these modernist poems are meditative, elegiac, and prophetic in tone, and touch on the themes of loss, loneliness, displacement, war, and the yearning for renewal.