Yenta Mash ^People

Yenta Mash renowned as a lively polyglot area and a flourishing center of Jewish culture. nI 1941, she was exiled to the Siberian gulag by Soviet forces. She endured seven e a r s of hard labor before leaving the prison camp and making her way toChisināu, then the capital of the Moldovan SSR. In 1977, in her fifties, Mash immigra- ted to Israel and settled in Haifa, where, she began to write and to publish. Her short storieswere published in Yiddish journals on both sides of the Atlantic, and her work was collected in four volumes published in Israel. She was honored with Israel's ItsikManger Prize in 1999 and with the Dovid Hofshteyn Prize in 2002.Mash brings women's experiences to the fore, giving us a fresh perspective on historical events that we may have learned about only through the eyes of male wri- ters and their male characters. She offers an intimate perch from which to explorelittle-known corners of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.Mash's characters are often in transit, arriving from somewhere or departing tosomewhere, embarking or disembarking-forever on the landing'. Available now for the first time in English, her work is urgently relevant today as displaced people seekrefuge across the globe. On the Landing contains sixteen stories selected from Mash's four volumes of collected work, arranged so as to follow the passage of time from the1940s through the beginning of the twenty-first Century.