Q & A: Ellen Cassedy, Translator of "On the Landing," Stories by Yenta Mash, Master Chronicler of Exile

By C.M. Mayo www.cmmayo.com

This blog posts on Mondays. This year the fourth Monday of the month is dedicated to a Q & A with another writer.

On the Landing: Stories by Yenta Mash,
translated by Ellen Cassedy
(Northern Illinois University Press, 2018)

Yenta Mash and her stories will be remembered because they have rare and masterful elegance, uncanny insight into vast prairie-like swaths human nature, and unusual heart. They also tell stories entirely new for many English-speaking people, that of the Jewish exiles to Siberia under Stalin during World War II, and their later migration to Israel. Translator Ellen Cassedy’s is a transcendent achievement; with Mash’s On the Landing she has brought a landmark book into English.

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