Research Catalog

Title

A treasury of Yiddish stories / edited by Irving Howe & Eliezer Greenberg ; with drawings by Ben Shahn.

Publication

New York : Viking Press, 1954.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Howe, Irving
• Greenberg, Eliezer, 1896-1977
• Shahn, Ben, 1898-1969

Description

630 pages : illustrations; 22 cm

Summary

Short stories, proverbs, and folk-tales, traditional and modern.

Subject

• Short stories, Yiddish > Translations into English

Genre/Form

• Translations.
• Short stories.

Contents

Calf / Mendele Mocher Sforim -- On account of a hat / Sholom Aleichem -- Devotion without end / I.L. Peretz -- Eternal life ; Hodel ; Search ; Dreyfus in Kasrilevke ; Pair / Scholom 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 -- Gimple the fool / I. Bashevis Singer -- May the temple be restored! / Joseph Opatoshu -- Page from the song of songs / Sholom Aleichem -- My first love / Moishe Nadir -- Adventures of Hershel Summerwind / Itzik Manger -- Eating days / Lamed Shapiro -- In a backwoods town / David Bergelson -- To the new world / Isaac Metzker -- 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.

Call Number

PJ5128

LCCN

54009599

OCLC

1873609

Title

A treasury of Yiddish stories / edited by Irving Howe & Eliezer Greenberg ; with drawings by Ben Shahn.

Publisher

New York : Viking Press, 1954.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Added Author

Howe, Irving, editor.

Greenberg, Eliezer, 1896-1977, editor.

Shahn, Ben, 1898-1969, illustrator.

Other Form:

Online version: Howe, Irving. Treasury of Yiddish stories. New York, Viking Press, 1954 (OCoLC)569326023

Research Call Number

Desk-JWS PJ5128 .T74 1954