From a Bird's Cage to a Thin Branch: The Selected Poems of Yosef Kerler Sale Books The Second Avenue Deli Cookbook

The Second Avenue Deli Cookbook provides a delicious taste of nostalgia

his broad slapstick portrayals elevated by ingenious wordplay and double entendre

and neglected fiction by writers including Ivan Gold

I Say Shlemazel

our King  אֿבינו מלּכנו   traditional   Hebrew 4:18

From a Bird's Cage to a Thin Branch: The Selected Poems of Yosef Kerler Sale Books The Second Avenue Deli CookbookTranslated by Maia Evrona The first Yiddish English bilingual edition of one of Yiddish literatures most vital post war poets. Born in the Ukrainian town of Haysin and raised in Crimea, Yosef Kerler was perhaps the only Yiddish poet to publish poetry written in the gulag. He would later become one of the first prominent refuseniks. This collection proves strikingly timely, with the poets complicated relationship to his cradle land echoing throughout,