From Our Springtime: Literary Memoirs and Portraits of Yiddish New York

Marcus’s translation is a critical contribution to our appreciation of New York as a global, multilingual literary center in the first decades of the twentieth century, and of ways in which Yiddish writers contributed to the multicultural expansion of American letters. Justin Cammy, coeditor of Arguing the Modern Jewish Canon: Essays on Literature and Culture in Honor of Ruth R. Wisse

Gerald Marcus has done us a great favor in his fine translation of Reuben Iceland, a most important figure in the American Yiddish literary world for decades. Jules Chametzky, coeditor of Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology

Gerald Marcus gives the reader a clear, compelling translation of a passionate man. . . .This memoir is a significant source for research on Yiddish literature in America. Highly recommended for collections focused on Yiddish. AJL News and Reviews