Journeys Beyond the Pale: Yiddish Travel Writing in the Modern World by Leah Garrett Dybbuk obscured by cultural misunderstandings

obscured by cultural misunderstandings

even a few jokes

How can we explain their dramatic economic ascent

Winner of the 2016 National Jewish Book Award for Children’s and Young Adult Literature

Journeys Beyond the Pale: Yiddish Travel Writing in the Modern World by Leah Garrett Dybbuk obscured by cultural misunderstandingsJourneys beyond the Pale is the first book to examine how Yiddish writers, from Mendele Moycher Sforim to Der Nister to the famed Sholem Aleichem, used motifs of travel to express their complicated relationship with modernization. The story of the Jews of the Pale of settlement encompasses current day Russia, the Ukraine, Belarus, and Poland.