Tsvey Brider: Kosmopolitn National Jewish Book Award Winner with illustrations from New Yorker

with illustrations from New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast

• A Baked Savories chapter

My Life: From a Russian Shtetl to the Golden Land

the book can be read as a Bildungsroman in free verse and a chronicle of tenacity and endurance

At age thirteen he apprenticed to be a typesetter

Tsvey Brider: Kosmopolitn National Jewish Book Award Winner with illustrations from New YorkerTsvey Briders genre bending, lushly expressive original compositions to Yiddish poetry from the first half of the 20th century evoke a world of humor, beauty, oddity and wistfulness. A circus dancer with an erotic attraction to knives. A man fantasizing fervently about an unknown woman in a cafe. A mountain of granite, coal and steel building itself into Chicago. With cameo appearances by Baymele, Veretski Pass, Kurt Bjorling, and Vivek Datar,