Pioneers: A Tale of Russian-Jewish Life in the 1880s by S. A. An-sky Discount Aliza Shevrin's fluid translation captures

Aliza Shevrin's fluid translation captures the idiomatic richness of the original Yiddish and brings Sholem Aleichem's vanished culture to vibrant life

finds himself ever more caught up in worldly affairs

Edition of the New Yiddish Library Series

and Menachem Mendl--"shtetl Jews" for whom humor and pathos were two sides of the same Yiddish coin--remain invaluable windows into pre-war Eastern European Jewish life

Bright Morning of Pain

Pioneers: A Tale of Russian-Jewish Life in the 1880s by S. A. An-sky Discount Aliza Shevrin's fluid translation capturesTranslated by Michael R. Katz S. A. An sky's novel dramatizes the dilemmas of Jewish young people in late Tsarist Russia as they strive to throw off their traditional religious upbringing to adopt a secular and modern identity. The action unfolds in the town of M. in the Pale of Settlement, where an engaging cast of characters wrestles with cultural and social issues. Their exploits culminate in helping a young Jewish woman evade an arranged marriage