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Judith: A Tale of Love & Woe
Miriam Karpilove​
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Translated from the Yiddish by Jessica Kirzane
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Karpilove’s debut, an epistolary novel published when she was twenty-three, follows the tumultuous relationship between a small-town Jewish girl uprooted due to antisemitic violence and the dashing revolutionary who routinely disappoints her.
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Miriam Karpilove
(1888–1956) was a prolific Yiddish author of novels and short stories.
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“Karpilove’s sly, artful narrative is well-served by Jessica Kirzane’s lovely and confident translation.”
— Ellen Cassedy, translator of
On the Landing: Stories by Yenta Mash
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Translated from the Yiddish by Jessica Kirzane
146 pp
ISBN: 9791096677108
Order from your local bookshop or online.
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