A mahogany box. Jewish prose of Eastern Europe in the second half of the 19th and 20th centuries

The publication contains translations of the works of eleven Jewish writers of Eastern Europe of the second half of the 19th and 20th centuries: Yitzchok Leib Peretz, Sholem Aleichem, Janusz Korczak, Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Bruno Schulz, Isaac Babel, Itzik Kipnis, Itzik Manger, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Deborah Vogel, Avrom Sutzkever.

Jewish prose is presented in the book in a more or less architectural variety of its species, genres, and stylistic charms: from traditionally instructive plots, colored by the parable style of writing, to examples of European "stream of consciousness" literature, based on lush metaphors, alliterations that connect history with modernity, old with new, undermine the peace of established themes, and powerfully lead a person to himself - to where the most interesting things are.