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Editors’ Pick

November 14, 2017

A Literary Masterpiece and a Perfect Antidote to Jewish Sentimentalism toward the East European Past

The Yiddish Magic Mountain.

In his 1940 Yiddish novel “When Yash Arrived” (available in English as Homecoming at Twilight), the Polish-born American author Jacob Glatstein tells the story of a Polish Jew’s return to the land of his birth from the U.S. Dara Horn recommends the book as a way “to repair the damage done to the American Jewish psyche by hundreds of lousy Holocaust novels and school productions of Fiddler on the Roof.” She writes:

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