{"product_id":"the-glatstein-chronicles-new-yiddish-library-series-9780300095142","title":"The Glatstein Chronicles (New Yiddish Library Series)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis seminal American work from the Yiddish literary canon  in a restored English edition  offers the luminous narrative of the authors journey home to his Polish birthplace  In 1934  with World War II on the horizon  writer Jacob Glatstein (18961971) traveled from his home in America to his native Poland to visit his dying mother. One of the foremost Yiddish poets of the day  he used his journey as the basis for two highly autobiographical novellas (translated as The Glatstein Chronicles) in which he intertwines childhood memories with observations of growing anti-Semitism in Europe. Glatsteins accounts stretch like a tightrope across a chasm  writes preeminent Yiddish scholar Ruth Wisse in the Introduction. In Book One  Homeward Bound  the narrator  Yash  recounts his voyage to his birthplace in Poland and the array of international travelers he meets along the way. Book Two  Homecoming at Twilight  resumes after his mothers funeral and ends with Yashs impending return to the United States  a Jew with an American passport who recognizes the ominous history he is traversing. The Glatstein Chronicles is at once insightful reportage of the year after Hitler came to power  reflection by a leading intellectual on contemporary culture and events  and the closest thing we have to a memoir by the boy from Lublin  Poland  who became one of the finest poets of the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45647048966197,"sku":"ByrdShop_0300095147","price":29.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780300095142.jpg?v=1781686958","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-glatstein-chronicles-new-yiddish-library-series-9780300095142","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}