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GRADE, CHAIM. My Mother's Sabbath Days: A Memoir.
Schocken Books, New York: 1987. 0805208399 / 9780805208399 First Schocken Paperback Edition. s Softcover. Good condition.
This memoir by the great Yiddish writer Chaim Grade, originally published in Yiddish in 1955, takes us to the source of his widely praised novels and poems: the city of Vilna, known as "The Jerusalem of Lithuania." Centered on the figure of Grade's mother, Vella, a pious, hardworking young widow, this is a richly detailed account of the city of his youth, of the lives of the rabbis, the wives, the tradesmen, the peddlers, the scholars. Grade's memoir recalls the special climate of Vilna in the interwar years. Translated into English from the Yiddish by Channa Kleinerman Goldstein and Inna Hecker Grade.
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57.62 USD
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GRADE, CHAIM. The Agunah.
Menorah Publishing Company, New York: 1978. 0932232000 / 9780932232007 Reprint Edition. s Softcover. Fair condition. There is a one inch tear at the bottom of the spine, and one cluster of pages is loose.
Describes the world of Vilna between the two World Wars, the city known as the "Jerusalem of Lituania." An agunah is a married woman who, according to Jewish law, cannot remarry either because her husband will not grant her a divorce, or, as in the case of this novel, because there is no witness to her husband's death. Translated into English from the Yiddish by Curt Leviant. "This is Jewish storytelling at its engaging best, as human as all our frailties, by a master of Yiddish literature. - Kirkus Reviews
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