Naydus Press proudly announces its inaugural publication. A masterpiece by one of Yiddish literature’s true virtuosi, *Childe Harold of Dysna* appears here for the first time in a complete English translation. At once an exuberant celebration of Yiddish language and a searing indictment of capitalist excess, Moyshe Kulbak’s poem follows the journey of its protagonist from small town Eastern Europe to the metropolis of Weimar Berlin. We watch as his literary aspirations and intellectual illusions are dashed on the rocks of a culture corroding from within. Drawing on his own beleaguered experiences in Berlin in the early 1920s, not only does Kulbak offer us a fresh perspective on urban life in interwar Berlin but he also does so in one of the truly great pyrotechnic displays in Yiddish poetry. Robert Adler Peckerar’s stunning translation has managed the great feat of conveying simultaneously Kulbak’s verbal brilliance and his searing critique. This beautiful volume includes an insightful introduction by Boris Dralyuk, the executive editor of the Los Angeles Review of Book, as well as stunning illustrations by Beynish.
For more information visit www.nayduspress.org Naydus Press is an independent, non-profit press dedicated to publishing fine English translations of Yiddish literature. Please consider supporting the press in its ongoing efforts to bring you the best of the Yiddish world.
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