Poem by Poem, Fable by Fable: Discovering My Father and Learning His Language by Anna Miransky National Jewish Book Award Winner Radiant Shards: Hoda's North End

Radiant Shards: Hoda's North End Poems

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deepens and broadens our sense of the remarkable young woman who composed it

Poem by Poem, Fable by Fable: Discovering My Father and Learning His Language by Anna Miransky National Jewish Book Award Winner Radiant Shards: Hoda's North EndAt the age of seventy two, Anna Miransky begins to read her father's poetry and fables in her first and forgotten language, Yiddish. She is changed by what she finds. In his writing, her father, the poet and fabulist Peretz Miransky, a Holocaust survivor and member of the celebrated literary group Yung Vilne, reveals aspects of his inner life about which he had never spoken when he was alive. His daughter discovers new details about family members,