# Event Details - **Event Name**: Rose Waldman & Todd Portnowitz with Lisa Newman: Sons & Daughters - **Event Start and End Date**: Sun, 25 May, 2025 at 04:00 pm – Sun, 25 May, 2025 at 05:00 pm - **Event Description**: Read on for important details for this live, in-person Brookline Booksmith event.About this EventIn person at Brookline Booksmith! Celebrate the release of Sons and Daughters by Chaim Grade with translator Rose Waldman and editor Todd Portnowitz, in conversation with Lisa Newman.Register for the event!RSVP to let us know you're coming! Depending on the volume of responses, an RSVP may be required for entrance to the event. You will also be alerted to important details about the program, including safety requirements, cancellations, and book signing updates. In the event that we reach capacity and have to close RSVPs, there will not be a waiting list.Get your copy!Books will be available for purchase at the event, but you can ensure that you get a copy by preordering on this page. You can pick your book up after 6:30PM on the day of the event.Can't make it to the event? Preorder the book here to have it signed, and choose to have it held or shipped from the store!Book orders are processed for pickup or shipping after ticket sales have closed.Livestream!When possible, events are livestreamed. Check out our store YouTube channel for livestream updates. No registration is required for the livestream. https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events6/banners/607ffd20-1f0a-11f0-b1a8-95aba4063b67-rimg-w1200-h675-dc000101-gmir.jpg Sons and DaughtersFrom “one of the great—if not the greatest—contemporary Yiddish novelists” (Elie Wiesel), the long-awaited English translation of a work, Tolstoyan in scope, that chronicles the last, tumultuous decade of a world succumbing to the march of modernity“A great beard novel . . . Also a great food novel . . . A melancholy book that also happens to be hopelessly, miraculously, unremittingly funny . . . [Grade’s] fretful characters vibrate as if they were drawn by Roz Chast [and] Rose Waldman's translation seems miraculous to me.” —Dwight Garner, The New York Times“It is me the prophet laments when he cries out, ‘My enemies are the people in my own home.’” The Rabbi ignored his borscht and instead chewed on a crust of bread dipped in salt. “My greatest enemies are my own family.”Rabbi Sholem Shachne Katzenellenbogen’s world, the world of his forefathers, is crumbling before his eyes. And in his own home! His eldest, Bentzion, is off in Bialystok, studying to be a businessman; his daughter Bluma Rivtcha is in Vilna, at nursing school. For her older sister, Tilza, he at least managed to find a suitable young rabbi, but he can tell things are off between them. Naftali Hertz? Forget it; he’s been lost to a philosophy degree in Switzerland (and maybe even a goyish wife?). And now the rabbi’s youngest, Refael’ke, wants to run off to the Holy Land with the Zionists.Originally serialized in the 1960s and 1970s in New York–based Yiddish newspapers, Chaim Grade’s Sons and Daughters is a precious glimpse of a way of life that is no longer—the rich Yiddish culture of Poland and Lithuania that the Holocaust would eradicate. We meet the Katzenellenbogens in the tiny village of Morehdalye, in the 1930s, when gangs of Poles are beginning to boycott Jewish merchants and the modern, secular world is pressing in on the shtetl from all sides. It’s this clash, between the freethinking secular life and a life bound by religious duty—and the comforts offered by each—that stands at the center of Sons and Daughters.With characters that rival the homespun philosophers and lovable rouges of Sholem Aleichem and I. B. Singer—from the brooding Zalia Ziskind, paralyzed by the suffering of others, to the Dostoyevskian demon Shabse Shepsel—Grade’s masterful novel brims with humanity and heartbreaking affection for a world, once full of life in all its glorious complexity, that would in just a few years vanish forever.Rose Waldman is the translator of S. An-sky’s Pioneers: The First Breach and I. L. Peretz’s Married. She is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Yiddish Book Center.Todd Portnowitz is a senior editor at Alfred A. Knopf and a translator of Italian literature. His prose translations include Roman Stories by Jhumpa Lahiri (co-translated with the author), In Search of Amrit Kaur by Livia Manera Sambuy,The Greatest Invention by Silvia Ferrara, and Long Live Latin by Nicola Gardini; his poetry translations include the forthcoming Methods by Lorenzo Carlucci and Go Tell It to the Emperor by Pierluigi Cappello, for which he received a Raiziss/de Palchi Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets. He is a co-host of the writer-translator reading series Us&Them, and lives in Brooklyn, NY.Lisa Newman is the director of publishing and public programs and Director of White Goat Press, the Yiddish Book Center’s imprint. Prior to joining the Yiddish Book Center, Lisa managed public relations and publishing projects for a variety of nonprofit and corporate clients. After moving to western Massachusetts to work for New England Monthly, she went on to work with numerous national magazine and book publishers. She has been an instructor at the Radcliffe Publishing Course and the Columbia Publishing Course and a panelist at industry events. She is a graduate of New York University.About Brookline BooksmithWe are one of New England’s premier independent bookstores, family-owned and locally run since 1961. We offer an extensive selection of new, used, and bargain books; unique, beautiful gifts; award-winning events series; and specialty foods. Every day, we strive to foster community through the written word, represent a diverse range of voices and histories, and inspire conversations that enrich our lives. Find more at brooklinebooksmith.com!EVENT ACCESSIBILITYThis event will take place at street level. If possible, the event will be livestreamed to YouTube. ASL interpretation may be provided (based on the availability of interpreters) but must be requested at least 2 weeks in advance of the event. Seats are limited. Please email us at ticketing@brooklinebooksmith.com as soon as possible if you require ASL interpretation, guaranteed seating, or other accommodations. 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