Never Better!: The Modern Jewish Picaresque by Miriam Udel Yiddish Learning Two recent books--- Alice Nakhimovsky’s

Two recent books--- Alice Nakhimovsky’s and Roberta Newman’s

perhaps especially in the digital era

Zalmen Reyzen and Nokhem Shtif

many of which remain both significant and relevant

Never Better!: The Modern Jewish Picaresque by Miriam Udel Yiddish Learning Two recent books--- Alice Nakhimovsky’s2016 National Jewish Book Council Award Winner It was only when Jewish writers gave up on the lofty Enlightenment ideals of progress and improvement that the Yiddish novel could decisively enter modernity. Animating their fictions were a set of unheroic heroes who struck a precarious balance between sanguinity and irony that author Miriam Udel captures through the phrase never better. With this rhetorical homage toward the double voiced utterances of