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Author Berdichevsky, Micah Joseph, 1865-1921, author.

Title From a distant relation / Mikhah Yosef Berdichevsky ; edited and translated from the Yiddish by James Adam Redfield ; with a foreword by Avner Holtzman
Edition First edition
Published Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2021
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Description 1 online resource
Series Judaic traditions in literature, music, and art
Judaic traditions in literature, music, and art.
Contents Machine generated contents note: Hasidic Tales -- Gadi -- Weasel and the Pit -- Fife -- Between the Four Poles -- As It So Happens -- Nest Egg -- Visitors -- Just Cover My Costs -- Itsikl -- Author -- When the Lord Shall -- Bring Thee -- In a Hoarse Voice -- Country Jew -- Sarah -- Aging -- From the Heart -- All I've Been Through -- Dream -- Only Son -- Broken String -- Cantor -- Tainted -- Sketches -- Yankef-Nusn -- That's What They Say -- Rivn Pesyes -- Liar -- Leybish-Meyer -- Big Cheese -- Into the Great Wide World -- Conversations -- In Jest and in Earnest -- Trouble in Paradise -- Matchmakers -- Thy Brother's Keeper -- Pleas -- New Men -- How Ben Nathansohn Got His Start -- Back from the Service -- What It Means to Serve -- Real Monster -- Mothers and Sons -- Dvoyre; Or, The Elegy -- Children -- Strange Boy -- Off to Odessa -- Right at Home -- Mother and Daughter -- To the Son-in-Law -- To the Daughter-in-Law -- Fathers and Sons -- Guest -- Quarrels -- On Borrowed Time -- Mourner -- How We Live Now -- Full of Surprises -- Patrimony -- Luck -- Husbands and Wives -- Smith -- All Mixed Up -- Well Taken Care Of -- Agine -- You Never Can Tell -- Modern Times -- Test -- This New Generation -- Older Generations -- Leaving Town -- Changing Trains -- Old Woman -- Restless Wanderer -- In a Hurry -- To London -- After the Fire -- What We've Been Hearing -- Take One Look at Me -- Not Alone -- These Days -- Why? -- Quiet Type -- World within a World
Summary "These little-known Yiddish stories by Mikhah Yosef Berdichevsky, one of the greatest Jewish writers and public intellectuals of his time, paint the East European Jewish town in a dark light with flashes of desire, humor, and faith"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 20, 2021)
Subject Berdichevsky, Micah Joseph, 1865-1921 -- Translations into English
SUBJECT Berdichevsky, Micah Joseph, 1865-1921 fast
Subject FICTION -- Jewish.
Genre/Form short stories.
Cuentos.
Translations
Short stories
Short stories.
Nouvelles.
Form Electronic book
Author Redfield, James Adam, editor, translator.
Holtzman, Avner, writer of foreword.
LC no. 2021024428
ISBN 9780815655404
0815655401
Other Titles Yudishe ks̀ovim. English