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A Bridge of Longing : The Lost Art of Yiddish Storytelling
A Bridge of Longing The Lost Art of Yiddish Storytelling Author:David Roskies This compelling history shows how Yiddish storytelling became the politics of rescue for successive generations of displaced Jewish artists, embodying their fervent hopes and greatest fears in the languages of tradition. Its protagonists are modern writers who returned to storytelling in the hope of harnessing the folk tradition, and who created... more » copies that are better than the original.« less