New Review – Yiddish Stories from the Ukrainian Provinces

Posted by parkismc on Friday, March 11, 2022 in News.

Prof Allison Schatcher‘s recent book, a translation of selected stories by Fradl Shtok titled From the Jewish Provinces, has been reviewed by Tablet. Rokhl Kafrissen has this to say –

“… right now, for those of us newly focused on Ukraine and its terrible humanitarian crisis, the stories of Fradel Shtok offer a moment to deepen our connection to that complicated landscape of memory, one in which flowers, and desires, once bloomed among neighbors.”