Episode 393: The Backstory of Chaim Grade’s Novel Sons & Daughters
Update: 2025-06-30
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Editors Altie Karper and Todd Portnowitz sat down with "The Shmooze" to talk about Chaim Grade’s novel "Sons & Daughters" (Knopf)—newly translated into English by Rose Waldman. Originally serialized in the 1960s and 1970s in New York–based Yiddish newspapers, Grade’s "Sons and Daughters" tells the story of a way of life that is no longer. In conversation Altie and Todd tell the incredible backstory of how the work came to publication and why the newly translated novel has been lauded as the “last great Yiddish novel.”
Episode 393
June 30, 2025
Amherst, MA
Episode 393
June 30, 2025
Amherst, MA
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