Red Shoes for Rachel: Three Novellas (Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art)

Red Shoes for Rachel, Sandler’s award-winning collection of three novellas, features tightly wound tales that seamlessly incorporate diverse genres, including magic realism, satire, and autobiography, and profound psychological profiles to create touching portrayals of the human experience. Zumoff’s translation of Sandler’s original Yiddish collection makes the J. I. Segal Award–winning volume available to English readers for the first time. In the collection’s eponymous novella, Rachel, a daughter of Holocaust survivors raised in Brighton Beach, encounters a Moldovan Jewish immigrant divorcee as she is tending to her disabled, elderly mother along the Coney Island boardwalk. As the two begin a relationship, the story reveals their past and the commonalities between two children of Holocaust survivors raised in very different societies. In the novella Karolina Bugaz, an exhausted Moldovan Jewish immigrant architect leaves his wife and newly religious son behind to go on a cruise to a mysterious island, which may just be a direct voyage through space and time into his past. In the volume’s most acclaimed story, Halfway Down the Road Back to You, an elderly Moldovan Holocaust survivor in Israel separated from her children by emigration must confront her past as her failing mind begins to blur the boundaries between her daily life and the horrors of war sixty years before. The novella was adapted by the author into an acclaimed play, which has been staged in the United States, Belgium, and France.

Literature & Fiction

Sandler, Boris

Literary

Syracuse University Press

Two novels and one story by Boris Sandler, the well-known Yiddish prose writer, are included under the title page of the book "Red Shoes for Rachel."  The heroes of all three works are about to make crucial decisions. The first novel, "Somewhere Along the Byways of Longing," centers on the theme of the decline and passing of the generation that survived the Holocaust. In the second novel, "Red Shoes for Rachel," the psychological state of the children of the survivors, a result of the dark and shattering experience of their parents, is depicted. The heroes of the third story, "Studies of Solfeggio," suddenly discover the magic of "kama sutra."

Royte shikhlekh far Reytshl: Tsvey Noveles un dertseylung (Red Shoes for Rachel: Two Novellas and a Story) (English and Yiddish Edition)

CYCO Bikher Farlag

Dov-Ber Krupnik, the protagonist of the duology Hidden Saints I Recall, sets out for Moscow as a researcher and writer from Hebrew University in Jerusalem to investigate the fate of Yiddish archives seized by Soviet security agencies in the end of the 1940s. The writer's arrival in Moscow awakens memories of his years as a student in the Yiddish Writing Program at Gorky Literary Institute, of his encounters with Yiddish writers and editors at the journal Sovietish Hezeymland, and of his own first steps in Yiddish literature.\nThe second book in Hidden Saints I Recall, the novel encompasses the period from 1981 to 1994, and it examines the fate of Yiddish literature and Yiddish writers in a time of historical rupture.

With a Mission to Moscow (Yiddish Edition)

Yiddish Branzhe

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Red Shoes for Rachel: Three Novellas (Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art)

Red Shoes for Rachel: Three Novellas (Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art)

Royte shikhlekh far Reytshl: Tsvey Noveles un dertseylung (Red Shoes for Rachel: Two Novellas and a Story) (English and Yiddish Edition)

With a Mission to Moscow (Yiddish Edition)