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My Mother's Sabbath Days: A Memoir by Chaim Grade non-media European Jews began speaking aTranslated from the Yiddish by Channa Kleinerman Goldstein and Inna Hecker Grade This tender and moving memoir by the great Yiddish writer Chaim Grade takes us to the very source of his widely praised novels and poems the city of Vilna, the "Jerusalem of Lithuania" during the years before World War II. "A poignant memoir A memorable book in the tradition of Sholom Aleichem and S. Y. Agnon. The excellent translation retains all the life and color of