S. Ansky, Author Schocken Books Inc $13 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8052-1011-8
An altogether excellent anthology, this volume offers a superior introduction to the brillant, brooding works of a turn-of-the-century master of Yiddish literature. (Sept.)
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S. Ansky, Author, Boony Fetterman, Editor, David G. Roskies, Introduction by Schocken Books Inc $25 (220p) ISBN 978-0-8052-4111-2
An altogether excellent anthology, this volume offers a superior introduction to the brilliant, brooding works of a Yiddish master. Ansky, pseudonym of Lithuanian-born Solomon Rappoport (1863-1920), earned a place in literature with his great drama...
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S. Ansky, Author, S. An-Ski, Author, Joachim Neugroschel, Translator , edited and trans. from the Yiddish by Joachim Neugroschel. Holt/Metropolitan $30 (352p) ISBN 978-0-8050-5944-1
"The Jews were killed, the women were raped in the streets, old women's breasts are slashed off, and the people left to die in their agony." Thus wrote a Jewish soldier quoted in this diarylike account by Ansky describing his journeys...
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