Mindy Aloff
By Mindy Aloff
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News These Tricks Are Not Just for Kids
The Jewish Book of Fables By Eliezer Shtaynbarg Edited and translated from the Yiddish by Curt Leviant Syracuse University Press, 256 pages, $34.95. * * *| Eliezer Shtaynbarg (1880-1932) taught children Yiddish and Hebrew and wrote and directed plays for them in his native Bessarabia. Learned in biblical and Talmudic literature, he also edited a…
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News Man of the Book: Reading a Life of Salman Schocken
The Patron: A Life of Salman Schocken (1877-1959) By Anthony David Metropolitan Books (Henry Holt and Company), 352 pages, $30. * * *| You may have never heard of the publisher Salman Schocken, an intellectual’s businessman as well as a businessman’s intellectual; even some leading New York editors of the past 30 years know little…
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