Illegal Jews Part the Seas by Samuel Isban synced a haunted graveyard

a haunted graveyard

Unterzakhn (Yiddish for “Underthings”) tells the story of these sisters: as wide-eyed little girls absorbing the sights and sounds of a neighborhood of struggling immigrants

with its unique blend of schmaltz and shtick

here is a feast of more than a thousand old and new Jewish jokes and witty anecdotes---and you don't have to be Jewish to enjoy them

Listen to a conversation with the book’s translators

Illegal Jews Part the Seas by Samuel Isban synced a haunted graveyardTranslated from the Yiddish by Daniel Kennedy Listen to our podcast with Daniel Kennedy. Watch an interview with author Samuel Isban's daughter and son. Veteran newspaperman Samuel Isban accepts an assignment from the New York newspaper Der Morgn Zhurnal to report on Aliya Bet, the clandestine mission to smuggle Jewish refugees past the British blockade into Palestine. What follows is an eyewitness account from aboard a ramshackle vessel, manned by a