Arguing with the Storm: Stories by Yiddish Women Writers by Rhea Tregebov Dictionaries Novelist Joseph Skibell celebrates Kantor's

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Arguing with the Storm: Stories by Yiddish Women Writers by Rhea Tregebov Dictionaries Novelist Joseph Skibell celebrates Kantor'sFrom the shtetl to the New World, from failed revolutions in tsarist Russia to the Holocaust, these Yiddish tales illuminate a lost world from a womans distinctive perspective. For decades, stories by Yiddish women writers were available only to those who spoke the mother tongue of Eastern European Jews. This translation brings some of the lost women writers of the golden age of Yiddish to English speaking readers. Their stories range from the wryly