Dear Yiddish Author|Alicia Hogan Murphy Joe did a fantastic job

Joe did a fantastic job of incorporating real-life situations and stories

he persists in reaching out to the divine to illuminate the experiences of a soul in a body

and instead the story is driven by the characters

Personal experience combined with engagement with the events of his times -- WWII

Dear Yiddish Author|Alicia Hogan Murphy Joe did a fantastic jobDEAR YIDDISH is a startlingly brave and candid rendering of life in the shadow of death. "Sex is over and death soon to come." The beauty of the language and perceptions make 'maturity' one with 'excellence.' Or, as Yeats put it, "Bodily decrepitude is wisdom." It is a celebration of the poet's Jewish heritage, of the roots of his love of language, of the whole of his life in a nutshell, of the drop on a nostril that is the last moment of life, the