Before All The World

Author: Moriel Rothman-Zecher Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'ikh gleyb nit az di gantze velt iz kheyshekh.' 'I do not believe that all the world is darkness.' In the swirl of Philadelphia at the end of Prohibition, Leyb meets Charles. They are at a speakeasy called Cricket's, a bar that serves, as Charles says in his secondhand Yiddish, its feygeles. Leyb is startled; fourteen years in amerike has taught him that his native tongue is not known beyond his...Read more