The Journey by Ida Fink National Jewish Book Award Winner From Yiddish-speaking Russian-Lithuanian feather handlers

From Yiddish-speaking Russian-Lithuanian feather handlers in South Africa to London manufacturers and wholesalers

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Blankshteyn’s stories are both a view of the final gasp of Eastern European Jewish culture and a compelling modern perspective on the broader world

Featuring the traditional prayers―provided in the original Hebrew and a new and annotated translation―this third volume in the Prayers of Awe series explores the relevance of confession today in what is bound to be the most up-to-date

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The Journey by Ida Fink National Jewish Book Award Winner From Yiddish-speaking Russian-Lithuanian feather handlersWith this deeply moving, masterfully controlled novel, Fink, a Jewish writer who was born in Poland in 1921, continues her exploration of survival during the Holocaust (begun in the story collection A Scrap of Time ). Two Jewish sisters armed only with poorly forged papers escape a Polish ghetto; their real names are never given, and the narrator, the older sister, instead uses the various aliases they assume. Posing as Christians, they report to a