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From: Helen Mintz <hmintz at telus.net
Date: Jan. 22, 2016


Now Available!
Vilna My Vilna: Stories by Abraham Karpinowitz

Translated from the Yiddish by Helen Mintz
Foreword by Justin Cammy.
"Thanks to this wonderful volume, expertly translated by Helen Mintz,
Abraham Karpinowitz will finally get the attention he deserves. His stories
are funny, well-crafted and suffused with the special atmosphere of Jewish
Vilna." - Samuel D. Kassow, Northam Professor of History Trinity College.

“Karpinowitz is a master storyteller with a talent for blending fact and
fiction, an eye for detail, a finely attuned ear for slang – and an abiding
affection for the colorful characters who inhabit the lost world of prewar
Vilna... It’s all brilliantly rendered in this first-ever translation.” -
Ellen Cassedy, author of We Are Here: Memories of the Lithuanian Holocaust.

 “Criminals, dreamers and performers . . . make their way through
Karpinowitz’s pages in pungent, unforgettable characterizations. - Jeremy
Dauber, Atran Professor of Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture,
Columbia University.

Abraham Karpinowitz (1913–2004) was born in Vilna, Poland (present-day
Vilnius, Lithuania), the city that serves as both the backdrop and the
central character for his stories. He survived the Holocaust in the Soviet
Union and, after two years in an internment camp on the island of Cyprus,
moved to Israel, where he lived until his death. In this collection,
Karpinowitz portrays, with compassion and intimacy, the dreams and
struggles of the poor and disenfranchised Jews of his native city before
the Holocaust. His stories provide an affectionate and vivid portrait of
poor working women and men, like fishwives, cobblers, and barbers, and
people who made their living outside the law, like thieves and prostitutes.
This collection also includes two stories that function as intimate memoirs
of Karpinowitz’s childhood growing up in his father’s Vilna Yiddish
theater. Karpinowitz wrote his stories and memoirs in Yiddish, preserving
the particular language of Vilna’s lower classes. In this graceful
translation, Mintz deftly preserves this colorful, often idiomatic Yiddish,
capturing Karpinowitz’s unique voice and rendering a long-vanished world
for English language readers.

6 x 9, 216 pages, 7 black-and-white illustrations, glossary, notes,
bibliography

In the U.S., contact Longleaf Services to order by calling 800-848-6224
In Canada, you can contact Scholarly Book Services to order by calling
800-847-9736

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