Poem by Poem, Fable by Fable: Discovering My Father and Learning His Language by Anna Miransky eBook Ilana Kurshan reveals how literature

Ilana Kurshan reveals how literature weaves an invisible thread through the tapestry of family life

By re-creating the artist’s milieu at a crossroads not just of Jewish and Polish culture but of art

With unusual narrative force

and the desire for love and self-expression are deeply resonant with today’s audience

In this first full-length biography in English

Poem by Poem, Fable by Fable: Discovering My Father and Learning His Language by Anna Miransky eBook Ilana Kurshan reveals how literatureAt 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,