Congratulations to Maier Deshell and Margaret Birstein for their recent MLA award: The Fenia and Yaakov Leviant Memorial Prize in Yiddish Studies for their translation of Yehoshue Perle‘s Everyday Jews.

The book is part of Yale Press’s New Yiddish Library series, including Maier Deshell‘s most recent  work, along with Norbert Guterman, a translation of two of Jacob Glatstein’s novellas, Homeward Bound and Homecoming at Twilight, now published as The Glatstein Chronicles.