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A treasury of Yiddish stories,

Author: Irving Howe; Eliezer Greenberg
Publisher: New York, Viking Press, 1954.
Edition/Format:   Book : Fiction : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Genre/Form: Translations into English
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Howe, Irving.
Treasury of Yiddish stories.
New York, Viking Press, 1954
(OCoLC)569326023
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Irving Howe; Eliezer Greenberg
OCLC Number: 1873609
Description: 630 p. illus. 22 cm.
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.
Responsibility: edited by Irving Howe & Eliezer Greenberg. With drawings by Ben Shahn.

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