"These little-known Yiddish stories by Mikhah Yosef Berdichevsky, one of the greatest Jewish writers and public intellectuals of his time, paint the East European Jewish town in a dark light with flashes of desire, humor, and faith"--

Mikhah Yosef Berdichevsky was one of the most important European Jewish intellectuals of his time. He was a well-known translator and editor of Jewish folklore in both Hebrew and German.

James Adam Redfield is assistant professor of Biblical and Talmudic literatures in the Department of Theological Studies at Saint Louis University and visiting assistant professor at the University of Chicago Divinity School. His edition and translation of From a Distant Relation was the result of his 2016 Yiddish Book Center translation fellowship.