Song without Words

Deeply respected Niger,I ask you to endure me in Russian.I want to express to you my happiness that we are approaching the time of the new Jewish book, a book created with love towards [the thing]…

Esteemed editor: Permit me to say a couple of words about the educational work of the Arbeter Ring. I think that the work, as now conducted, is wasted. As far as the Arbeter Ring’s courses go there…

Edited by David Frishman and published by Stybel

The problem of creating a body of translated literature in Yiddish is very important and must be solved systematically. This serves the interests of our original [Yiddish] literature best. [I will…

We live in a time of Sturm und Drang [storm and stress]. Every day brings new disappointments and new hopes. Old forms lose their value, no new ones are being created. And the synthetic gaze of…

This was the psychological state we were in when the war arrived. The war was not a political issue for us. We were thinking neither about the question of war guilt nor about a victorious outcome; we…