Never Better!: The Modern Jewish Picaresque by Miriam Udel Yiddish Learning from the courtyard to the

from the courtyard to the courthouse

Petrovsky-Shtern brings this golden age to life

Zalmen Reyzen and Nokhem Shtif

The Little Disturbances of Man

many of which remain both significant and relevant

Never Better!: The Modern Jewish Picaresque by Miriam Udel Yiddish Learning from the courtyard to the2016 National Jewish Book Council Award Winner It was only when Jewish writers gave up on the lofty Enlightenment ideals of progress and improvement that the Yiddish novel could decisively enter modernity. Animating their fictions were a set of unheroic heroes who struck a precarious balance between sanguinity and irony that author Miriam Udel captures through the phrase never better. With this rhetorical homage toward the double voiced utterances of