Eleanor Reissa

Podcast: Narrating the short stories Who Is Guilty? for the Yiddish Book Center of Amherst

โ€œWho is Guilty?โ€ is an episodic radiocast produced by the Yiddish Book Center and read by Eleanor Reissa.

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"Who is Guilty?" is an episodic radiocast produced by the Yiddish Book Center and read by Eleanor Reissa. These recordings are based on newspaper reporter Sarah B. Smithโ€™s serialized pieces which covered New York city's courtrooms. Due to the space constraints of a newspaper column, each story had to be short, and as Dan Setzer, the translator notes, Smith had to paint her characters with a few deft master strokes to make us see them as whole individuals. "Who is Guilty?" was published in Yiddish in New York by Literature Publishers in 1919.

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