Peter Manseau - Songs for the Butcher's Daughter
When
Nov 12, 2009 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm (Thursday)
Where
Robert E Loup Jewish Community Center (map)
350 South Dahlia Street
Denver, CO
Denver, CO
39.709848
-104.930519
What
Shwayder Theatre
Winner of the 2008 National Jewish Book Award for Fiction
Peter Manseau’s Songs for the Butcher’s Daughter introduces us to two people who meet towards the end of th...
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Event details: Peter Manseau - Songs for the Butcher's Daughter
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Shwayder Theatre
Winner of the 2008 National Jewish Book Award for Fiction
Peter Manseau’s Songs for the Butcher’s Daughter introduces us to two people who meet towards the end of the 20th century. First, Itsik Malpesh, a 90-something Russian immigrant who’s the self-proclaimed Greatest Yiddish Poet in America. “To be the greatest poet one only needs to be the last.” he declares. Next, you have the 21-year-old Translator. How does a 21-yea-old lapsed Catholic seminary student wind up working in a Yiddish book warehouse? (Ah! There’s a another story.) And it’s told alongside that of Itsik Malpesh.
Peter Manseau’s much-acclaimed third book, this story is at once an immigrant’s epic saga, a love story, and a Yiddish-inflected laughing-through-tears novel of faith lost and hope found in translation. It is most interesting to note that Manseau actually worked as a “packen trager,” collecting books for the National Yiddish Book Center in Waltham, Mass.
http://www.petermanseau.com/
Winner of the 2008 National Jewish Book Award for Fiction
Peter Manseau’s Songs for the Butcher’s Daughter introduces us to two people who meet towards the end of the 20th century. First, Itsik Malpesh, a 90-something Russian immigrant who’s the self-proclaimed Greatest Yiddish Poet in America. “To be the greatest poet one only needs to be the last.” he declares. Next, you have the 21-year-old Translator. How does a 21-yea-old lapsed Catholic seminary student wind up working in a Yiddish book warehouse? (Ah! There’s a another story.) And it’s told alongside that of Itsik Malpesh.
Peter Manseau’s much-acclaimed third book, this story is at once an immigrant’s epic saga, a love story, and a Yiddish-inflected laughing-through-tears novel of faith lost and hope found in translation. It is most interesting to note that Manseau actually worked as a “packen trager,” collecting books for the National Yiddish Book Center in Waltham, Mass.
http://www.petermanseau.com/
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Payment required. $8/general admission; $6/senior, student, JCC memberLinks
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