Sandra Bark (editor) Beautiful as the Moon, Radiant as the Stars: Jewish Women in Yiddish Stories: An Anthology Reviews

“Beautiful as the Moon, Radiant as the Stars: Jewish...”

Written on: 02/12/2003 by Harriet Klausner (18660 reviews written)

Beautiful as the Moon, Radiant as the Stars: Jewish Women in Yiddish Stories: An Anthology
Sandra Bark (editor)
Warner, Nov 2003, $14.95, 336 pp.
ISBN: 0446691364

BEAUTIFUL AS THE MOON, RADIANT AS THE STARS: JEWISH WOMEN IN YIDDISH STORIES: AN ANTHOLOGY is a superb look at what it means to be a Jewish woman especially in a westernized society but also in places like Tsar Russia. Many of the stories were originally written in Yiddish and are transliterated into English so some of the... (read more)