01262cam a2200277 4500 339258844 TxAuBib 20100707120000.0 071205s2008||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2007-49787 9781416538707 1416538704 (OCoLC)180755942 TxAuBib 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. ALEML