The Tears and Prayers of Fools: A Novel by Grigory Kanovich Yiddish Learning Shtetl: A Vernacular Intellectual History

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Sonata in Auschwitz by Luize Valente Translated from Portuguese by Claudio Bethencourt

The Tears and Prayers of Fools: A Novel by Grigory Kanovich Yiddish Learning Shtetl: A Vernacular Intellectual HistoryTranslated by Mary Ann Szporluk This extraordinary novel is part of Grigory Kanovichs Litvak saga, his tribute to Jewish life before the Holocaust. Set in a small Lithuanian town in the late nineteenth century, the story begins with the arrival of a stranger who sets everyone on edge and seems to know their secrets. Is he a messenger from God, a long lost son, a saint, or a madman? As the stranger in the velvet yarmulke makes his rounds, we meet an