Yiddishlands: A Memoir, Second Edition - Paperback

by David G. Roskies (Author)

A remarkable family story and a whirlwind tour of Yiddish culture from 1906 to the present-updated in a second edition.

Author Biography

David G. Roskies is professor emeritus of Yiddish literature and culture at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. A cofounder of Prooftexts: A Journal of Jewish Literary History, he also served as editor in chief of the New Yiddish Library. He received the Silver Medal for Contributions to Yiddish Scholarship from the University of Rome in 1997 and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2012. His extensive and prolific research and publications span the disciplines of Yiddish and Jewish literature, Holocaust literature, and Jewish cultural history.