Cribside and Other Stories

Cribside and Other Stories is an anthology of newly translated stories, poetry, and memoir about the experiences of Yiddish-speaking women. The selections explore diverse challenges faced by women: mothers weighing whether to leave their children home alone in order to work; women partisans risking their lives in the struggle against fascism; grandmothers asking how to uphold Jewish traditions in a new modern world; daughters attempting to understand their mothers as women with lives of their own. Included are newly translated works by Ida Maze, Shmerke Kaczerginski, and Anna Margolin; with translations by Daniel Kennedy, Jessica Kirzane, and Ruth Murphy, among many others.

Cribside and Other Stories is an anthology of newly translated stories, poetry, and memoir about the experiences of Yiddish-speaking women. The selections explore diverse challenges faced by women: mothers weighing whether to leave their children home alone in order to work; women partisans risking their lives in the struggle against fascism; grandmothers asking how to uphold Jewish traditions in a new modern world; daughters attempting to understand their mothers as women with lives of their own. Included are newly translated works by Ida Maze, Shmerke Kaczerginski, and Anna Margolin; with translations by Daniel Kennedy, Jessica Kirzane, and Ruth Murphy, among many others.