9 to 5 wasn’t just a comic film—it was a movement built by Ellen Cassedy and her friends.Ten office workers in Boston started out sitting in a circle and sharing the problems they encountered on the job. In a few short years, they had built a nationwide movement that united people of diverse races, classes, and ages.They took on the corporate titans. They leafleted and filed lawsuits and started a woman-led union. They won millions of dollars in ba...

"A must-read for any activist or reader in search of inspiration." —Liz Shuler, president, AFL-CIO2022 Sarton Awards Finalist for Memoir2023 Independent Publisher Book Awards Gold Medalist - Women's Issues category9 to 5 wasn't just a comic film—it was a movement built by Ellen Cassedy and her friends.Ten office workers in Boston started out sitting in a circle and sharing the problems they encountered ...

Tai neįtikėtina vienos moters, panūdusios ne tik sugrįžti prie savo protėvių ištakų, bet ir perprasti visos tautos tragediją, istorija. Noras kalbėti gimtąja jidiš kalba, kurią pamiršo mirus motinai, atvedė Ellen Cassedy į Lietuvą, kadaise vadintą Šiaurės Jeruzale. Kol Ellen ruošėsi kelionei, jos dėdė, prieš šešiasdešimt metų išvykęs iš Lietuvos, atskleidė šokiruojančią savąją karo patirtį, o galiausiai nepažįstamas pagyvenęs žmogus, kilęs iš autorės protėvių miestelio Rokiškio, pateikė ke...

From this prolific poet, author, and labor movement activist, a headily bittersweet love story set among the young Jewish literati of World War I–era New York City. One fateful winter night, Miriam Eidelberg finds herself strolling across the Williamsburg Bridge with her literary hero, the man whose poems she knows by heart. Nyezhiner, a star of the Yiddish artistic clique Di yunge—"the young ones"—is beguiled by the wistful girl at his side. But Miriam is married with a young daughter, wh...

In the shadow of death, Levi Shalit wrote to remember—so we would never forget.So We Died: A Memoir of Life and Death in the Ghetto of Šiauliai, Lithuania (Azoy zaynen mir geshtorbn) is a powerful eyewitness account of the Shavl ghetto during the Nazi occupation of Lithuania. Written in Yiddish by Levi Shalit and available now for the first time in English, the work fills a stark void in historical records.Shalit divided his work ...

In these sixteen stories, available in English for the first time, prize-winning author Yenta Mash traces an arc across continents, across upheavals and regime changes, and across the phases of a woman's life. Mash's protagonists are often in transit, poised "on the landing" on their way to or from somewhere else. In imaginative, poignant, and relentlessly honest prose, translated from the Yiddish by Ellen Cassedy, Mash documents the lost world of Jewish Bessarabia, the te...

Winner of the Modern Language Association’s Fania & Yaakov Leviant Memorial Prize in Yiddish Studies (2018)Ellen Cassedy and Yermiyahu Ahron Taub (the translators) on encountering Blume Lempel’s stories wrote: "When we began reading and translating, we didn’t know we were going to find a mother drawn into an incestuous relationship with her blind son. We didn’t know we’d meet a young woman lying on the table at an abortion clinic. We didn’t know we’d meet a middle-...