Dear Yiddish Author|Alicia Hogan Murphy and instead the story is

and instead the story is driven by the characters

" - Richard Beadle Founder Vistage Michigan 5 stars

"Besides being a nonfiction bestseller

In 1991 he published his first collection of short stories

Dear Yiddish Author|Alicia Hogan Murphy and instead the story isDEAR YIDDISH is a startlingly brave and candid rendering of life in the shadow of death. "Sex is over and death soon to come." The beauty of the language and perceptions make 'maturity' one with 'excellence.' Or, as Yeats put it, "Bodily decrepitude is wisdom." It is a celebration of the poet's Jewish heritage, of the roots of his love of language, of the whole of his life in a nutshell, of the drop on a nostril that is the last moment of life, the