Table of Contents

@fmct:Contents @toc2:Introduction 000 @tocca:Freddie Rokem @toc2:1. The Rubber Baron (A Tale of 30,000 Condoms): A Play with Songs 000 2. The Torments of Job 000 3. The Labor of Life 000 4. The Child Dreams: A Play in Four Parts 000 5. The Whore from Ohio 000 6. Murder: A Play in Three Acts and an Epilogue 000 7. Requiem (Based on Three Stories by Chekhov) 000 8. The Crybabies 000 Further Reading 000 Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Levin, Hanoch Translations into English

About the Author

Hanoch Levin, as the reports and book project say, is the most important Israeli playwright. I believe this will be the first book publication of his plays in English translation. Benjamin Harshav is Professor of Comparative Literature and J. & H. Blaustein Professor of Hebrew Language and Literature at Yale University; he is the author of The Meaning of Yiddish (California, 1990) and Language in Time of Revolution (California, 1993). I gather that the superlative comments about Barbara Harshav are simple fact—she is said to be the best translator from modern Hebrew into English in the world. Together, they put together American Yiddish Poetry: A Bilingual Anthology (California, 1986).