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Title: Pages from a Charred Notebook: The Fabulous Tales of Tsvi Eisenman by Tsevi Ayznman, Barnett Zumoff, Emanuel S. Goldsmith, Tsvi Eisenman ISBN: 0-88125-677-3 Publisher: KTAV Publishing House Pub. Date: August, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.95

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)

Rating: 5
Summary: Yiddish worlds
Comment: Tsvi Eisenman contributes family history, versions of world history, mystical and utterly realistic short stories, meditations, lamentations, allegories and "musical word improvisations" in this varied and interesting collection. In addition there are original fables that are suitable for children or adults. Eisenman invites readers into a daunting variety of Jewish triumphs, calamities, and inner states, from the beginning of time to 1980's Warsaw. The ordinary and the mythic are honored equally.

Eisenmam's deceptively simple "musical word improvisations" are usually a page long. "Apocalypse," a prose poem on the longing for communion when there seems to be no hope ("Dance with me. Hold me close. Embrace me.") is a simple, powerful plea. The loneliness of old age in "Tango" ("the bittersweet tango I now dance alone") is inarguable.

Occasionally, Barnett Zumoff's translation falters ("woven braids" for dreadlocks, for example). In all, these pieces are well worth reading - for a look at a somewhat experimental Yiddish writer who has a great imagination, generosity of spirit, and an enthusiastic knack for describing his world.