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You have just discovered a buried treasure: gems of literature excavated and placed into your hands. Listen, and marvel at what you have found! -Dara Horn, author of Eternal Life The Golden Peacock is a unique compilation of the striking voices of twentieth-century Yiddish poets and prose writers. It treats us to hours of engaging listening. The accompanying texts of the works, in Yiddish and in English translation, along with Zucker's illuminating notes, provide additional richness. -Marcia Falk, poet, translator This collection is truly a treasury of audio history. It's wonderful to hear the voices of these Yiddish writers so present and intimate. This new release makes the works accessible to non-Yiddish speakers in an audible form, in very good translations and movingly read. -Daniel Kahn, singer, songwriter, translator

You have just discovered a buried treasure: gems of literature excavated and placed into your hands. Listen, and marvel at what you have found! -Dara Horn, author of Eternal Life The Golden Peacock is a unique compilation of the striking voices of twentieth-century Yiddish poets and prose writers. It treats us to hours of engaging listening. The accompanying texts of the works, in Yiddish and in English translation, along with Zucker's illuminating notes, provide additional richness. -Marcia Falk, poet, translator This collection is truly a treasury of audio history. It's wonderful to hear the voices of these Yiddish writers so present and intimate. This new release makes the works accessible to non-Yiddish speakers in an audible form, in very good translations and movingly read. -Daniel Kahn, singer, songwriter, translator

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Sheva Zucker - Editor, Producer and Reader - is the author of the textbooks Yiddish: An Introduction to the Language, Literature & Culture, Vols. I and II, published by the Workermen's Circle. She has taught and lectured on Yiddish language, literature and culture on five continents and has taught Yiddish for many years in the Uriel Weinreich Program in Yiddish Language, Literature and Culture, currently under the auspices of Bard College and the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in New York City. From 2005 to 2020 she served as the executive director of the League for Yiddish and the editor of its magazine Afn Shvel. She is the editor and producer of the CD The Golden Peacock: Voice of the Yiddish Writer (2001).

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