The Golden Peacock: The Voice of the Yiddish Writer Bilingual

Edited and produced by Sheva Zucker
Published in 2021

131 pages, 2 CDs with bilingual recordings of the texts, with the English read by Trudie Kessler and Sheva Zucker
Paperback

This book, The Golden Peacock: The Voice of the Yiddish Writer, accompanies a spoken word recording of 12 Yiddish writers reading from their works, both poetry and prose, followed by readings of English translations. It is a unique collection of Yiddish literature and contains the text of each of the works and the English translation, a biography of each writer in English and Yiddish as well as notes in English about each selection. The writers featured are Celia Dropkin, Yankev Glatshteyn, Rokhl Korn, Aron Glanz-Leyeles, H. Leivick, Kadya Molodowsky, Itzik Manger, Avrom Sutzkever, Sholem-Aleichem, Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman, Yekhiel Shraibman and Elie Wiesel.

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