'This is a lucid and lively translation of a timely Yiddish play, one that asks difficult questions about allyship and the intersecting interests and conflicts of marginalized peoples. How do we see ourselves in the “other”? Can we see truly, or is our own image always foregrounded in our representation of others?'

Barbara Henry, author of Rewriting Russia: Jacob Gordin's Yiddish Drama (2011)

'Alyssa Quint and Ellen Perecman deserve high praise for bringing this artifact of interwar Warsaw to an English readership. A work of unapologetic agitprop depicting racism, imperialism, and capitalism for a working-class audience, the play illustrates how engaged Yiddish culture was with international politics as well as an aesthetic avant-garde. This will be an invaluable resource for teachers, performers, and devotees of Yiddish culture.'

Marc Caplan, author of Yiddish Writers in Weimar Berlin: A Fugitive Modernism (2021)

'Mississippi, available in English for the first time, should change our understanding of discussions about race in the 1930s. This sensitive translation by Ellen Perecman and Alyssa Quint, combined with Quint's thoughtful and thoroughly researched introduction, will add a new artistic source to studies of Black history, Jewish history, and Yiddish theater.'

Amelia Glaser, author of Songs in Dark Times: Yiddish Poetry of Struggle from Scottsboro to Palestine (2020)