Read this article in Yiddish
On May 23rd at 1:00 pm EDT, the Workers Circle will host a book party for a new bilingual edition of stories by the short story writer, Salomea Perl, “The Canvas and Other Stories.”
The discussion will be in English, with the readings in Yiddish and English.
The volume includes seven stories both in the original Yiddish and in a facing-page translation by Ruth Murphy, along with a literary introduction by Justin Cammy, professor of Yiddish literature at Smith College.
Perl’s stories are worth reading, Cammy writes, thanks to her unsentimental style and her descriptions of the dire poverty and class divisions within the Jewish community. She explores how religious values sometimes lacked compassion for lived experience.