Cities in Translation: Intersections of Language and Memory by Sherry Simon National Jewish Book Award Winner few resources exist to enable

few resources exist to enable American Jews to experience the rich primary sources of Yiddish culture

It is a deeply human odyssey that journeys from pre–Civil War Charleston

and an invitation to gather around the table and create new memories with family

and famine

For nineteenth-century Eastern European Jews

Cities in Translation: Intersections of Language and Memory by Sherry Simon National Jewish Book Award Winner few resources exist to enableAll cities are multilingual, but there are some where language relations have a special importance. These are cities where more than one historically rooted language community lays claim to the territory of the city. This book focuses on four such linguistically divided cities: Calcutta, Trieste, Barcelona, and Montreal. Though living with the ever present threat of conflict, these cities offer the possibility of creative interaction across competing