Mendele Mokher Seforim

The cadences of the Talmud left their mark on Yiddish, and Israeli, speech patterns.

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Jacob Dinezon’s The Dark Young Man.

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Once a bustling, but unliterary, Jewish community.

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Trapped in a cycle of naïveté and doom.

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What else should it be?

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