My Life: From a Russian Shtetl to the Golden Land by Samuel Osipow Yiddish Learning Set in a shtetl in

Set in a shtetl in Poland between the world wars

with a family that’s not just mortifyingly embarrassing but flat-out broke

At every level this is the ultimate survivor's tale—and that too of the children who somehow survive even the survivors

definitive recordings of the artist whom President Obama lauded

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My Life: From a Russian Shtetl to the Golden Land by Samuel Osipow Yiddish Learning Set in a shtetl inSamuel Osipow was born in 1883 in the Russian shtetl (Yiddish for town) of Liadi, lost to World War II. In his colorful and lyrical autobiography, My Life: From a Russian Shtetl to the Golden Land, Liadi lives again. Its Jewish holy days; Osipow's loving mother Rishe Ranyeh; his pious, Hebrew teacher father Nachum; cousins Izzy the Tiny One and Chonale the Monster; dreaded teacher Kulye the Ox; nemesis Itse the One Eyed; and local legend Avreml the