A Master Class in I. L. Peretz's Stories with Goldie Morgentaler
- Yiddish Shmoozers in Translation
- Apr 29
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Updated: May 5
Two Sundays - 5/4/25 and 5/18/25 - 4-6 pm Pacific
The Yiddish Shmoozers (In Translation) welcomes back Dr. Goldie Morgentaler!
Dr. Morgentaler, a scholar of English literature at the University of Lethbridge in Canada, is a prolific translator of Yiddish works, including some of the stories by I. L. Peretz that we will be reading this May.
May 4 - 4:00-6:00 pm Pacific
If Not Higher
Bontshe the Silent
The Three Gifts
Downcast Eyes
May 18 - 4:00-6:00 pm Pacific
Stories
Bryna's Mendel
In the Mail Coach - just added 5/5/25
Between Two Mountains
What is the Soul
Shmoozers will remember devoting much of 2022 to reading and discussing the remarkable Tree of Life trilogy, a fictionalized chronicle of life in the Lodz ghetto under the tightening Nazi death grip.
We were able to access Chava Rosenfarb's masterpiece in English thanks to Goldie Morgentaler's dedicated translation of the author's, her mother's, work. Goldie joined us twice afterwards in unforgettable sessions reading and discussing her mother's short stories.
A new volume, In the Land of the Postscript, contains Rosenfarb's complete short stories in translation, available from The Yiddish Book Center.
Click below to read Goldie Morgentaler's essay "I. L. Peretz's Saints and Sinners" in The Tablet and join us on May 4 and May 18.
You might also want to read this interesting article about Peretz's socialist (Jewish Bundist) political views.
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