A compelling historical novel about the tragic alliance between Chinese and English forces in Burma during World War II.
Burma is under attack from the Japanese army, and a unit of Chinese soldiers is sent to aid endangered British...
This volume presents an outstanding new translation of two favorite comic novels by the preeminent Yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem (1859–1916). The Letters of Menakhem Mendl and Sheyne Sheyndl portrays a tumultuous marriage through letters...
Even the most pious Jew need not shed so many tears over the destruction of Jerusalem as the women were in the habit of shedding when Stempenyu was playing.
The first work of Sholom Aleichem’s to be translated into English — this long...