Cribside and Other Stories

Cribside and Other Stories is an anthology of newly translated stories, poetry, and memoir about the experiences of Yiddish-speaking women. The selections explore diverse challenges faced by women: mothers weighing whether to leave their children home alone in order to work; women partisans risking their lives in the struggle against fascism; grandmothers asking how to uphold Jewish traditions in a new modern world; daughters attempting to understand their mothers as women with lives of their own. Included are newly translated works by Ida Maze, Shmerke Kaczerginski, and Anna Margolin; with translations by Daniel Kennedy, Jessica Kirzane, and Ruth Murphy, among many others.