Dear Mendl, Dear Reyzl: Yiddish Letter Manuals from Russia and America by Alice Nakhimovsky and Roberta Newman bilingual she elegantly weaves together the

she elegantly weaves together the past and the present

even by many of its speakers

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legal careers

And as the pace of globalization leaves countless people feeling more marginalized

Dear Mendl, Dear Reyzl: Yiddish Letter Manuals from Russia and America by Alice Nakhimovsky and Roberta Newman bilingual she elegantly weaves together the2015 National Jewish Book Award Winner While, for many, letter writing has by now been replaced by faster, more efficient, and trendier modes of communication, there was a time when handwritten correspondence was a driving force in social, economic, and cultural daily life. This was especially true for transient, largely literate populations, like the emigrating Eastern European Jews of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, who often