Crude Creatures: Confronting Representations of Black People in Yiddish Culture by Gil Ribak non-media human nature and God―and to

human nature and God―and to each other

Mendel Mann’s stories follow his life in reverse

and his six children in a one-room hut

during which more than 90 percent of Lithuania's Jews were murdered

is a polemical

Crude Creatures: Confronting Representations of Black People in Yiddish Culture by Gil Ribak non-media human nature and God―and toListen to our podcast with author Gil Ribak Corrects the record on how Yiddish media portrayed African Americans Understandings of Black Jewish relations have been notable for the near consensus among scholars that the Yiddish press repeatedly condemned discrimination and prejudice against African Americans and highlighted the similarities between the situation of Jews in Eastern Europe and Blacks in America. This book argues that this view covers