CHAIM GRADE (1910–1982) is “one of the 20th century’s pre-eminent writers of Yiddish fiction” (The New York Times). Born in Vilna (now Vilnius), Lithuania, Grade fled to New York in 1948, after losing his first wife and his mother to the Holocaust. With his second wife, Inna, he lived in the Bronx for the remainder of his life. Grade is the author of numerous works of poetry and prose, including the novels The Yeshiva, The Agunah, Rabbis and Wives, and My Mother’s Sabbath Days, and his beloved philosophical dialogue, My Quarrel with Hersh Rasseyner. ROSE WALDMAN is the translator of S. An-sky’s Pioneers: The First Breach and I. L. Peretz’s Married. She is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Yiddish Book Center.