ONLINE: A Zoom invitation link will be sent one day before class begins.
Rachel Mines, Yiddish translator, will present several short stories by Jonah Rosenfeld, an immigrant to New York from Eastern Europe. Rosenfeld’s psychologically rich fiction, first published in Yiddish 100 years ago, portrays rapid social change, family dysfunction, generational and cultural conflicts, emigration, wars, and pandemics. His stories are as relevant today as ever. We will read and discuss Rachel’s translations of several of Rosenfeld’s stories. Specific stories will be announced closer to the time of the class so registrants can read them in advance. Book purchases are not required for the class, but they are available from the publisher, Syracuse University Press, and from online booksellers such as Amazon. Rachel Mines, Ph.D., from Vancouver, Canada, retired from teaching English in 2020. Her two collections of Rosenfeld’s short fiction The Rivals and A Plague of Cholera were published in 2020 and 2024 respectively. For more information about Rachel and her translation projects, visit https://www.rachelmines.com.
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