Dear Mendl, Dear Reyzl: Yiddish Letter Manuals from Russia and America by Alice Nakhimovsky and Roberta Newman bilingual from their humble beginnings as

from their humble beginnings as a metropolitan charitable initiative to their current status as a cornerstone of national identity

she elegantly weaves together the past and the present

even by many of its speakers

Other recipes take a playful approach to the Old World

Publisher's Note:

Dear Mendl, Dear Reyzl: Yiddish Letter Manuals from Russia and America by Alice Nakhimovsky and Roberta Newman bilingual from their humble beginnings as2015 National Jewish Book Award Winner While, for many, letter writing has by now been replaced by faster, more efficient, and trendier modes of communication, there was a time when handwritten correspondence was a driving force in social, economic, and cultural daily life. This was especially true for transient, largely literate populations, like the emigrating Eastern European Jews of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, who often