She was a 2015 Yiddish Book Center Translation Fellow, and On the Landing is a result of her fellowship. Translator Ellen Cassedy’s is a transcendent achievement with Mash’s On the Landing she has brought a landmark book into English.Įllen Cassedy is the author of We Are Here: Memories of the Lithuanian Holocaust and co-translator (with Yermiyahu Ahron Taub) of Oedipus in Brooklyn and Other Stories by Blume Lempel. Translator Ellen Cassedy’s is a transcendent achievement with Mash’s On the Landing she has brought a landmark book into English. They also tell stories entirely new for many English-speaking people, that of the Jewish exiles to Siberia under Stalin during World War II, and their later migration to Israel. Yenta Mash and her stories will be remembered because they have rare and masterful elegance, uncanny insight into vast prairie-like swaths human nature, and unusual heart. On the Landing: Stories by Yenta Mash, translated by Ellen Cassedy (Northern Illinois University Press, 2018)
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |