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| Genre/Form: | Translations into English Literature Literary collections Translations |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Joachim Neugroschel |
| ISBN: | 0393051900 9780393051902 9780393326178 0393326179 |
| OCLC Number: | 49618829 |
| Description: | xvii, 710 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents: | Introduction: Yiddish-- the longest journey -- Acknowledgments -- Part one. The old Yiddish period: 1382 to the mid-eighteenth century: Virtuous Joseph / anon. -- Debate between wine and water / Zalman Sofer -- The war of the Holy Days / Zalman Khasak -- A tale of Mainz-- the two half brothers / anon. -- Bovo of Altona, chapters 1-3 / Eli Bokhur -- Abraham's childhood / anon -- The peasant and the scribe (from The book of cows) / anon. Six tales (from The Mayse book) / Jacob ben Abraham of Mezritch -- Noah and the flood (from Tsene-Rene) / Yakov ben Yitshok Ashkenazi -- Two spells from medical manuals (?16th-17th century) -- The West Indian tale / anon. -- The queen of Sheba in the house of the sun (from The book of miracles (1696), no. 2 / Yiftahk Yospe ben Naftali ha-Levi -- Two fables from The book of fables / Moshe Vallikh -- The tale of the pious Jew (from Memoirs) / Glikl bas Yuda Leib (a.k.a. Glikl of Hamelin) -- The princess and the seven geese / anon. -- Five stories about Till Eulenspiegel / anon. Part two. Hasidism and anti-hasidism, mysticism and moralism: Eighteen and early nineteenth century: From In praise of the Baal-Shem-Tov / Dov Ber ben Shmuel of Linets -- Stories about the Tsadiks / anon. -- Parables / The Dubno Preacher -- A tale of a king's son who was switched at birth-- (from Tales) / Rabbi Nakhman of Braslev. Part three. The Haskala (Jewish enlightenment): nineteenth century: Selections from The revealer of secrets / Yoysef Perl -- Fables / Shloyme Etinger -- The panic, or The town of Hérres / Aizik-Méyer Dik -- The hasidic boy, chapters 1-4 / Yitsik-Yoyl Linyetsky -- The little man, or The life story of Yitsik-Avrom, the power broker ; Shem and Japheth on a train / Mendele Moykher-Sforim -- From The Jewish Muzhik / Mordkhe Spector -- The crisis, chapters 1-3 / Yankev Dinezon. Part four. Modernism: nineteenth century to the present: On the stagecoach ; Cabalists ; Stories ; Hear, O Israel, or The Bassist / Yitsik Leybesh Peretz -- Mendel the Turk ; The starveling ; Anonymous folktales (from The destruction of Galicia) / S. Ansky (Shloyme-Zanvl Rapoport) -- Seventy-five thousand (A pack of Tsoris) / Sholom Aleichem -- How long does a pogrom last? / Alexander Kapel -- The cross / Lamed Shapiro -- Two roads ; Without a name ; The deaf man / Dovid Bergelson -- In the madhouse / Dovid Pinsky -- A father and his sons / I.M. Vaysenberg -- The archbishop / Fradel Shtok -- In the mountains / Hersh Dovid Nomberg -- From The Golem, or The miraculous deeds of Rabbi Liva / Yudl Rosenberg -- The encounter / Fishl Bimko -- A wounded man / Avrom Zak -- From a letter (from Barrack and War) / Yankev Kreplak -- Hear, O Israel / Yoysef Tenenboim -- A legend / Yeshue Perle -- He / H. Leivick -- Apartment no. four / Leon Kobrin -- The woman in chains, chapters 1-2 / Sarah Smith -- The story of beautiful Marie / Sholem Asch -- Magda / Y.Y. Singer -- The Jew who destroyed the Temple ; The first photograph / Avrom Reyzen -- Beheaded / Der Nister. Part four (cont.): Canary / Shloyme Gilbert -- Miss Bertha / Yoyne Rosenfeld -- The open grave / Yoysef Smolazh -- What became of the fools of Khelm? (from The fools of Khelm) / Menakhem Kipnis -- Zelmenyaners, book I / Moyshe Kulbak -- The aunt from Norfolk (from Shadows on the sun) / Bertha Lelchuk -- She's found an audience (from Trunks and branches) / Sarah Hamer-Jacklyn -- The end of the road / Rokhl Korn -- Zubak / Avrom Karpinovitsh -- Dog blood (from Gebentshte hent (Blessed hands)) / Frume Halpern -- A Roman phiosopher writes a letter / Y.Y. Trunk -- The Dybbuk / Dovid-Leyb Mekler -- The mirror (from Gimpel the Fool) / Isaac Bashevis Singer -- The empire of Kalman the cripple, chapters 1-2 / Yehuda Elberg -- Bociany, chapter 1 / Chava Rosenfarb. |
| Responsibility: | edited and translated by Joachim Neugroschel. |
Abstract:
A treasury of Yiddish literature features stories that represent Jewish traditions, culture, and history in a volume that includes works from the earliest literary periods through the present-day writings of I.B. Singer.
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