With Rake in Hand: Memoirs of a Yiddish Poet by Joseph Rotnik New Year tenderness

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Adolph Katchko

Aleichem's granddaughter

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Her maternal grandmother

With Rake in Hand: Memoirs of a Yiddish Poet by Joseph Rotnik New Year tendernessTranslated by Gerald Marcus Joseph Rolnik is widely considered one of the most prominent of the New York Yiddish poets associated with Di Yunge, an avant garde literary group that formed in the early twentieth century. In his moving and evocative memoir, Rolnik recalls his childhood growing up in a small town in Belarus and his exhilarating yet arduous experiences as an impoverished Yiddish poet living in New York. Working in garment factories by day