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Manseau, Peter.
Songs for the Butcher's Daughter :
A Novel /
Peter Manseau.
New York :
Free Press,
2008.
370 p. ;
24 cm.
Itsik Malpesh, a 90-something Russian immigrant and the last Yiddish poet in America, spends his days wishing his long-forgotten memoirs and poems could be translated into a living tongue. A 21-year-old translator of rare books on Judacica meets Malpesh one day and so begins their story. As the memoirs are translated, our young man discovers a history between Itsik, and the love of his life, Clara.
20081002.
Jews, Russian
United States
Fiction.
Poets, Yiddish
Fiction.
Translators
Fiction.
Translating and interpreting
Fiction.
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