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Samuel Osipow was born in 1883 in the Russian shtetl (Yiddish for town) of Liadi
the lone woman who sees him for what he is—The Books of Jacob captures a world on the cusp of precipitous change
the unique features of Yiddish
As Prague itself becomes as perplexing and unpredictable as its transient inhabitants
From a Distant Relation by Mikhah Yosef Berdichevsky Yiddish Learning Samuel Osipow was born inTranslated by James Adam Redfield In his short life (18651921), Mikhah Yosef Berdichevsky was a versatile and influential man of letters: an innovative Hebrew prose stylist; a collector of Jewish folklore; a scholar of ancient Jewish and Christian history. He was at once a peer of Friedrich Nietzsche, the Brothers Grimm, and a diverse circle of Jewish writers in the Russian Empire and German speaking countries. As a Yiddish writer, however, he remains
