Pour Out Thy Wrath

Published on February 11, 2005

The Revealer‘s favorite Yiddish writer, Lamed Shapiro, appears in translation in the new edition of Pakn Treger, the magazine of the National Yiddish Book Center. Shapiro, writes Leah Garrett in an introduction, “introduced a new literary perspective on anti-Jewish violence. He was the first Jewish writer to show how Jews, in response to victimization, could themselves become victimizers.” Read […]

The Revealer‘s favorite Yiddish writer, Lamed Shapiro, appears in translation in the new edition of Pakn Treger, the magazine of the National Yiddish Book Center. Shapiro, writes Leah Garrett in an introduction, “introduced a new literary perspective on anti-Jewish violence. He was the first Jewish writer to show how Jews, in response to victimization, could themselves become victimizers.” Read a translation of Shapiro’s 1908 story, “Pour Out Thy Wrath” in PDF here; listen to it in Yiddish via a link here.

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