Sons and Daughters
A Novel
From “one of the great—if not the greatest—contemporary Yiddish novelists” (Elie Wiesel), the long-awaited English translation of a work, Tolstoyan in scope, that chronicles the last, tumultuous decade of a world succumbing to the march of modernity
“A great beard novel . . . Also a great food novel . . . A melancholy book that also happens to be hopelessly, miraculously, unremittingly funny . . . [Grade’s] fretful characters vibrate as if they were drawn by Roz Chast [and] Rose Waldman's translation seems miraculous to me.” —Dwight Garner, The New York Times
“It is me the prophet laments when he cries out, ‘My enemies are the people in my own home.’” The Rabbi ignored his borscht and instead chewed on a…
$48.00
March 25, 2025
CHAIM GRADE (1910–1982) is “one of the 20th century’s pre-eminent writers of Yiddish fiction” (The New York Times). Born in Vilna (now Vilnius), Lithuania, Grade fled to New York in 1948, after losing his first wife and his mother to the Holocaust. With his second wife, Inna, he lived in the Bronx for the remainder of his life. Grade is the author of numerous works of poetry and prose, including the novels The Yeshiva, The Agunah, Rabbis and Wives, and My Mother’s Sabbath Days, and his beloved philosophical dialogue, My Quarrel with Hersh Rasseyner.
