"Pioneers demonstrates An-sky's sharp eye for detail, his clear gaze–frankly sympathetic though often ironicat these provincial Jews . . . This book is unique in offering in English this sort of picture of the experiences of an important generation of Russian Jews. . . . A unique work of art and an important document of its time."
Brian Horowitz]]>
Katz has done a fine job preserving the multi-lingual environment and conveying the speech of those heder boys now turned into messengers of enlightenment and radicalism . . . pulling from his translator's toolbox the appropriate instrument to render into English the twang of the Russian-Yiddish-Hebrew creole.
Gabriella Safran]]>
Pioneers demonstrates An-sky's sharp eye for detail, his clear gaze–frankly sympathetic though often ironicat these provincial Jews . . . This book is unique in offering in English this sort of picture of the experiences of an important generation of Russian Jews. . . . A unique work of art and an important document of its time.
Gabriella Safran
Pioneers demonstrates An-sky's sharp eye for detail, his clear gaze–frankly sympathetic though often ironic—at these provincial Jews . . . This book is unique in offering in English this sort of picture of the experiences of an important generation of Russian Jews. . . . A unique work of art and an important document of its time.
Brian Horowitz
Katz has done a fine job preserving the multi-lingual environment and conveying the speech of those heder boys now turned into messengers of enlightenment and radicalism . . . pulling from his translator's toolbox the appropriate instrument to render into English the twang of the Russian-Yiddish-Hebrew creole.