In the Valley of Death

Chaim Lieberman

1938

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Human wisdom has limits—stupidity has none.

God created a world with gifts and blessings for all: earth and water, sun and air in plenty, rye and wheat in abundance, a potato for everyone, a roof over every head, and thread enough to wrap around each body several times. God is with the people, if only the people were with God, too!

But the people…

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Creator Bio

Chaim Lieberman

1890–1963

Born in Ukraine, Chaim Lieberman was a prolific Yiddish essayist and literary critic. Lieberman wrote a regular column in the Yiddish daily Yiddishes tageblat and, as an active Labor Zionist, was a leading figure in the establishment of the secular Yiddish schools of the Jewish National Worker’s Alliance (Yidish-natsyonaler arbeter farband) in the United States. In the 1930s, Lieberman become an Orthodox Jew and joined the religious Zionist movement, from which vantage point he began to attack left-wing Yiddish writers. He was a prominent critic of Sholem Asch’s trilogy of Christological novels, which caused controversy in the American Jewish community.

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