Excerpts
“I experience the world as an ongoing series of border crossings, and since the book was published, I’ve felt as though I’ve crossed another border into a new country.”
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For Yiddish enthusiasts and novices alike, How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish is a smorgasbord of essays, poems, cartoons, and other dispatches from Yiddish America—a place where we all live, whether we know it or not. We’re thrilled to share the preface—the tasty appetizer before the feast—from editors Ilan Stavans and Josh Lambert.
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Mauritian author Shenaz Patel brings the story of the displaced Chagossian people to life with a keen journalist’s eye and fiery prose, gracefully translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman. Here, we’re honored to share with you her forceful afterword, which provides all of the history you need to understand their struggle and the “past that is not yet past.”
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