Description: Students and scholars of history and culture, women's literature, and translation studies will wonder how they've gone this long without reading Blankshteyn's work.
Brief description: Anita Norich is Collegiate Professor Emerita of English and Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan.
Review Quotes:
All in all, it's a fascinating mixed bag. As editor and translator Anita Norich notes, writing was only one aspect of Blankshteyn's active cultural and political life (she was deeply involved with the Yiddish People's Party). What is most noteworthy is that, with the exception of the affecting "Director Vulman," Nazi barbarism is not explicitly addressed in these stories. The romances and conflicts are touching in their relative normalcy, their determined belief in progress and happy endings. As such, they offer invaluable portraits of a world and a people that were soon to be obscured by darkness.
--Sam Sacks "Wall Street Journal"