‘A Bunch of Jews (A Minyen Yidn)’: Where our lives touch, that is the stuff of legends

By Arpad Okay. Max Perlson is a time traveler. A Minyen Yidn (Un Andere Zakhn) was originally Yiddish prose, something he wrote in 1938. Perlson went from Belarus (before it was Belarus) to New York and ended up writing an assortment of fables…