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.