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November 20, 2014

A Yiddish Novella of Pre-Statehood Israel

Avrom Rives left his native Poland for Palestine in the 1920s and made a name for himself as an author of short stories in Yiddish. His 1947 novella Iberflants (“Transplant”) tells the story of a group of young kibbutzniks. An excerpt has recently been translated into English:

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November 20, 2014

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