Contrary Journey with Velvel Zbarzher, Bard - Jill Culiner - Bog

Jewish writers, actors, rebels and bards upended the 19th c Old Country. Campaigning for education and freedom of expression, they fought the religious stranglehold. Velvel Zbarzher sang, argued and joked his way from Ukrainian shtetl to Constantinople. Culiner follows this extraordinary man to better know him, the Jewish Renaissance and herself.