Never Better!: The Modern Jewish Picaresque by Miriam Udel Yiddish Learning Selected plays by Sholem Aleichem

Selected plays by Sholem Aleichem

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Zalmen Reyzen and Nokhem Shtif

Never Better!: The Modern Jewish Picaresque by Miriam Udel Yiddish Learning Selected plays by Sholem Aleichem2016 National Jewish Book Council Award Winner It was only when Jewish writers gave up on the lofty Enlightenment ideals of progress and improvement that the Yiddish novel could decisively enter modernity. Animating their fictions were a set of unheroic heroes who struck a precarious balance between sanguinity and irony that author Miriam Udel captures through the phrase never better. With this rhetorical homage toward the double voiced utterances of