The Everyman of Poetry
The quiet subversiveness of Yehuda Amichai’s poetry has been too long overlooked.
Tag: Yiddish
A Russian Jewish Woman in New York Seeks Dating Advice (… in 1916)
The question of the hour: can a Sephardi-Ashkenazi romance survive? The following letters originally appeared in a Ladino newspaper, La Bos del Pueblo. They were translated into English by Aviva Ben-Ur and are excerpted below from Sephardi Lives: A Documentary History 1700-1950: In early-twentieth-century New York City, …
