My Childhood Years: A Memoir by Peretz Hirshbein (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798990998025)

Peretz Hirshbein (1880-1948) was a Yiddish playwright, novelist, journalist, travel writer, and theater director whose work was pivotal to the development of Yiddish theater in the early twentieth century. After visiting New York around 1912, Hirshbein spent much of the next twenty years traveling the world together with his wife, Esther Shumiatcher-Hirshbein, whom he married in 1918. In the mid-1930s, the couple settled in Los Angeles, where Hirshbein died of Lou Gehrig's disease in 1948.

Leonard Wolf (1923-2019) was a poet, author, teacher, and translator. Born in Vulcan, Romania, Wolf immigrated to the United States in 1930 with his family. He began writing poetry in his teens while attending public school and served in the U.S. Army during World War II. After earning his PhD in English and creative writing, Wolf taught English literature at several colleges and universities and authored twenty-seven books, including his own novels and poetry collections. He became particularly renowned as a translator of Yiddish literature and published a Yiddish version of Winnie the Pooh.