The Tears and Prayers of Fools: A Novel by Grigory Kanovich Yiddish Learning her household

her household

Accompanying the recipes were lush full-color drawings of vegetables and fruit that had originally appeared on bilingual (Yiddish and English) seed packets

at the age of sixty-two

and applications of a rich but previously unknown herbal tradition--one hidden by language barriers

are such historical figures as Paul Robeson

The Tears and Prayers of Fools: A Novel by Grigory Kanovich Yiddish Learning her householdTranslated by Mary Ann Szporluk This extraordinary novel is part of Grigory Kanovichs Litvak saga, his tribute to Jewish life before the Holocaust. Set in a small Lithuanian town in the late nineteenth century, the story begins with the arrival of a stranger who sets everyone on edge and seems to know their secrets. Is he a messenger from God, a long lost son, a saint, or a madman? As the stranger in the velvet yarmulke makes his rounds, we meet an