A Benefit Volume to Support Ukraine Relief - a trilingual edition.
Toward Hopeful Skies is a beautifully illustrated children’s book by Yuriy Budiak. First published in Ukrainian in the 1920s and shortly thereafter in free Yiddish translations. As a testament to the universal appeal of children's literature and the joyful contact of cultures that these translations represent.
This re-issued edition is trilingual Ukrainian, Yiddish and English.
World Literature in English Translation
Summer Reading
Novels, short stories and poetry from a world of writers coming into English translation.
Stories: read, write, draw and listen
Staff Pick
"This lavishly illustrated multilingual alphabet book isn't about inclusion, it is inclusion."
--The New York Times
About the Author:
Ellen Heck is a printmaker. For the past decade, through several print projects, she has explored questions about identity—its creation, variability, persistence and change. She studied philosophy at Brown University and art at SAIC. Inspired by reading Lithuanian alphabet books to her son, A Is for Bee is her debut picture book.
Yiddish Literature in Translation
The Art of Steve Marcus
Steve Marcus seamlessly weaves his childhood memories of bagels and bialys, pickles and green tomatoes from the barrel, paper wrapped whitefish chubs with his personal journey and passion for his roots and culture.
