"Envy, or Yiddish in America"Ostrover the Story Teller is the only Yiddish writer in America whose work is regularly translated. Edelshtein the Poet seethes with jealousy and desperately seeks a translator to bring his work to life. "The Pagan Rabbi" Isaac Kornfeld, a learned rabbi, has hanged himself in a park. His beautiful young widow tells the story of Isaac's great struggle—between the flowering nymph of his passions and the book-laden old Jew of his soul.
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Recipient of the first Rea Award for the Short Story (in 1976; other winners Rea honorees include Lorrie Moore, John Updike, Alice Munro), an American Academy of Arts and Letters Mildred and Harold Strauss Living Award, and the PEN/Malamud award in 2008. Upon publication of her 1983 The Shawl, Edmund White wrote in the New York Times, "Miss Ozick strikes me as the best American writer to have emerged in recent years...Judaism has given to her what Catholicism gave to Flannery O'Connor."
Mitchell Greenberg is an actor, narrator, drummer and blues singer. He has received the Carbonell Award for Yiddle With A Fiddle in 1991, and been nominated for the Helen Hayes Award for his part in The Cocoanuts. He has been an actor on stage and screen since 1974, started narrating audiobooks in 2001, and is also the drummer and singer in the blues band "Gaduntz." (source: Dreamscape) Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name.
