| Description |
630 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Series |
Schocken Books ; SB400 |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Notes on the authors -- pt. 1. Fathers -- Calf / Mendele Mocher Sforim ; On account of a hat / Sholom Aleichem ; Devotion without end / I.L. Peretz -- pt. 2. Portrait of a world -- Eternal life. Hodel. Search. Dreyfus in Kasrilevke. Pair / Sholom Aleichem ; Dead town. Ne'ilah in Gehenna. Cabalists. Bontsha the silent. If not higher. Mad Talmudist. Rabbi Yochanan the warden. Golem / I.L. Peretz ; And then he wept / David Pinski ; Meal for the poor / Mordecai Spector ; Sanctification of the name (a legend). Kola Street / Sholem Asch ; Poor community. Big succeh. Tuition for the rebbe. Recluse / Abraham Reisen ; Mazel tov. Father and the boys / I.M. Weissenberg ; Revenge (extracts from a student's diary). Girl / Zalman Schneour ; White chalah. Smoke. Rebbe and the rebbetsin / Lamed Shapiro ; Munie the bird dealer / Moishe Kulbak ; Repentance. Sand / I.J. Singer ; Competitors. Sick goose / Jonah Rosenfeld ; Gimpel the fool / I. Bashevis Singer ; May the temple be restored! / Joseph Opatoshu -- pt. 3. Jewish children -- Page from the Song of Songs / Sholom Aleichem ; My first love / Moishe Nadir ; Adventures of Hershel Summerwind / Itzik Manger -- pt. 4. Breakup -- Eating days / Lamed Shapiro ; In a backwoods town / David Bergelson ; To the new world / Isaac Metzker -- pt. 5. New worlds -- Quiet garden spot / Sholem Asch ; Little shoemakers / I. Bashevis Singer ; Higher and higher / Pesach Marcus ; Eternal wedding gown / Joseph Opatoshu ; Return / Jacob Glatstein ; Man who slept through the end of the world / Moishe Nadir ; Ghetto dog / Isaiah Spiegel ; My quarrel with Hersh Rasseyner / Chaim Grade -- pt. 6. Folk tales -- Editors' note ; Yiddish proverbs ; Tale of a candelabrum / Rabbi Nachman of Bratzlav ; Stories of Hershel Ostropolier ; Tales of Chelm |
| Subject |
Short stories, English -- Translations from Yiddish
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Short stories, Yiddish -- Translations into English.
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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| Author |
Greenberg, Eliezer, 1896-1977, editor
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| LC no. |
54009599 |
| ISBN |
0805204008 |
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9780805204001 |
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