Roskies, David G.

Yehoshue Perle (1888-1943) was one of Poland's most popular, controversial, and prolific Yiddish novelists of the interwar--and wartime--period. In his introduction to the novel, David G. Roskies, Sol & Evelyn Henkind Professor of Yiddish Literature at the Jewish Theological Seminary, opens up Perle's tragic life and undiscovered oeuvre to a new generation of readers.