From a Bird's Cage to a Thin Branch: The Selected Poems of Yosef Kerler Sale Books and way of life

and way of life

gathering testimonies from her grandmother’s relatives

opting instead for connections that twist traditional models of gender and history

פַאר װעמען זָאל איך שרַײען  folk / P

The variety of tales captured here is stunning

From a Bird's Cage to a Thin Branch: The Selected Poems of Yosef Kerler Sale Books and way of lifeTranslated by Maia Evrona The first Yiddish English bilingual edition of one of Yiddish literatures most vital post war poets. Born in the Ukrainian town of Haysin and raised in Crimea, Yosef Kerler was perhaps the only Yiddish poet to publish poetry written in the gulag. He would later become one of the first prominent refuseniks. This collection proves strikingly timely, with the poets complicated relationship to his cradle land echoing throughout,