Rescued from the archives and wrestled into print: Behind Chaim Grade's last Yiddish novel
Finished or not, “Sons and Daughters” is a vivid, Tolstoyan examination of what Kirsch calls “a family struggling with the meaning of Jewishness in the twentieth century.”
Chaim Grade’s "Sons and Daughters" was originally serialized in the 1960s and '70s, in New York–based Yiddish newspapers. (photo credit: YIVO; Alfred. A. Knopf)ByANDREW SILOW-CARROLL/JTAUpdated: