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A Bunch of Jews (and other stuff): A Minyen Yidn

by Trina Robbins, Max B. Perlson

Other authors: Shary Flenniken (Illustrator), Eve Furchgott (Illustrator), Sarah Glidden (Illustrator), Hershi Hartman (Translator), Miriam Katin (Illustrator)12 more, Terry LaBan (Illustrator), Steve Leialoha (Illustrator), Caryn Leschen (Illustrator), Miriam Libicki (Illustrator), Willy Mendes (Illustrator), Hope Nicholson (Editor), Joan Steacy (Illustrator), Ken Steacy (Illustrator), Anne Timmons (Illustrator), Robert Triptow (Illustrator), Jen Vaughn (Illustrator), Elizabeth Watasin (Illustrator)

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A Bunch of Jews (andother stuff) is based on the 1938 short story collection by Trina Robbin'sfather, Muttel (Mutye) Perechudnik, and was originally published in Yiddish.This collection features a collection of stories drawn from Muttel's (later MaxPerlson's) life growing up in a shtetl in Belarus and immigrating to Brooklyn inthe late 1910s at the age of 16. Here he became a journalist contributing shortstories in Yiddish to Jewish newspapers. The collection has beentranslated to English and adapted to graphic novel format by his daughter, TrinaRobbins, who says of the stories within: "They are slyly humorous portraits ofhis little village in Belarus, and of life in Brooklyn after he came to America.It's a snapshot of a way of life that would end with the coming of the Nazis andWW2, although none of them knew it yet."… (more)
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Trina Robbinsprimary authorall editionscalculated
Perlson, Max B.main authorall editionsconfirmed
Flenniken, SharyIllustratorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Furchgott, EveIllustratorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Glidden, SarahIllustratorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Hartman, HershiTranslatorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Katin, MiriamIllustratorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
LaBan, TerryIllustratorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Leialoha, SteveIllustratorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Leschen, CarynIllustratorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Libicki, MiriamIllustratorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Mendes, WillyIllustratorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Nicholson, HopeEditorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Steacy, JoanIllustratorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Steacy, KenIllustratorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
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A Bunch of Jews (andother stuff) is based on the 1938 short story collection by Trina Robbin'sfather, Muttel (Mutye) Perechudnik, and was originally published in Yiddish.This collection features a collection of stories drawn from Muttel's (later MaxPerlson's) life growing up in a shtetl in Belarus and immigrating to Brooklyn inthe late 1910s at the age of 16. Here he became a journalist contributing shortstories in Yiddish to Jewish newspapers. The collection has beentranslated to English and adapted to graphic novel format by his daughter, TrinaRobbins, who says of the stories within: "They are slyly humorous portraits ofhis little village in Belarus, and of life in Brooklyn after he came to America.It's a snapshot of a way of life that would end with the coming of the Nazis andWW2, although none of them knew it yet."

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