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Sons and Daughters 
 by Chaim Grade with translator Rose Waldman and editor Todd Portnowitz, in conversation with Lisa Newman.
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Sons and Daughters
From “one of the great—if not the greatest—contemporary Yiddish novelists” (Elie Wiesel), the long-awaited English translation of a work, Tolstoyan in scope, that chronicles the last, tumultuous decade of a world succumbing to the march of modernity
“A great beard novel . . . Also a great food novel . . . A melancholy book that also happens to be hopelessly, miraculously, unremittingly funny . . . [Grade’s] fretful characters vibrate as if they were drawn by Roz Chast [and] Rose Waldman's translation seems miraculous to me.” —Dwight Garner, 
The New York Times
“It is me the prophet laments when he cries out, ‘My enemies are the people in my own home.’” The Rabbi ignored his borscht and instead chewed on a crust of bread dipped in salt. “My greatest enemies are my own family.”
Rabbi Sholem Shachne Katzenellenbogen’s world, the world of his forefathers, is crumbling before his eyes. And in his own home! His eldest, Bentzion, is off in Bialystok, studying to be a businessman; his daughter Bluma Rivtcha is in Vilna, at nursing school. For her older sister, Tilza, he at least managed to find a suitable young rabbi, but he can tell things are off between them. Naftali Hertz? Forget it; he’s been lost to a philosophy degree in Switzerland (and maybe even a goyish wife?). And now the rabbi’s youngest, Refael’ke, wants to run off to the Holy Land with the Zionists.
Originally serialized in the 1960s and 1970s in New York–based Yiddish newspapers, Chaim Grade’s 
Sons and Daughters 
is a precious glimpse of a way of life that is no longer—the rich Yiddish culture of Poland and Lithuania that the Holocaust would eradicate. We meet the Katzenellenbogens in the tiny village of Morehdalye, in the 1930s, when gangs of Poles are beginning to boycott Jewish merchants and the modern, secular world is pressing in on the shtetl from all sides. It’s this clash, between the freethinking secular life and a life bound by religious duty—and the comforts offered by each—that stands at the center of 
Sons and Daughters
.
With characters that rival the homespun philosophers and lovable rouges of Sholem Aleichem and I. B. Singer—from the brooding Zalia Ziskind, paralyzed by the suffering of others, to the Dostoyevskian demon Shabse Shepsel—Grade’s masterful novel brims with humanity and heartbreaking affection for a world, once full of life in all its glorious complexity, that would in just a few years vanish forever.
Rose Waldman
 is the translator of S. An-sky’s 
Pioneers: The First Breach
 and I. L. Peretz’s 
Married
. She is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Yiddish Book Center.
Todd Portnowitz 
is a senior editor at Alfred A. Knopf and a translator of Italian literature. His prose translations include 
Roman Stories
 by Jhumpa Lahiri (co-translated with the author), 
In Search of Amrit Kaur
 by Livia Manera Sambuy,
The Greatest Invention
 by Silvia Ferrara, and 
Long Live Latin
 by Nicola Gardini; his poetry translations include the forthcoming 
Methods 
by Lorenzo Carlucci and 
Go Tell It to the Emperor
 by Pierluigi Cappello, for which he received a Raiziss/de Palchi Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets. He is a co-host of the writer-translator reading series 
Us&Them
, and lives in Brooklyn, NY.
Lisa Newman
 is the director of publishing and public programs and Director of White Goat Press, the Yiddish Book Center’s imprint. Prior to joining the Yiddish Book Center, Lisa managed public relations and publishing projects for a variety of nonprofit and corporate clients. After moving to western Massachusetts to work for 
New England Monthly
, she went on to work with numerous national magazine and book publishers. She has been an instructor at the Radcliffe Publishing Course and the Columbia Publishing Course and a panelist at industry events. She is a graduate of New York University.
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