A Provincial Newspaper and Other Stories (Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art)

"In this collection of stories, Miriam Karpilove captures a wide range of figures whose foibles and woes are in turns hilarious and affecting, from an underappreciated and overworked young woman journalist to an older man who runs away from an old age home because he does not want to live among the dying. This collection brings to new audiences the broad range of Yiddish writer Miriam Karpilove's sharp and unsparing pen while also shedding light on the conditions under which she lived and wrote"--