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Radiant days, haunted nights : great tales from the treasury of Yiddish folk literature

Title
Radiant days, haunted nights : great tales from the treasury of Yiddish folk literature / translated, compiled and introduced by Joachim Neugroschel.
Publication
New York : Overlook Duckworth, 2005.

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Additional Authors
Neugroschel, Joachim.
Description
429 p.; 24 cm.
Subject
Folk literature, Yiddish > Translations into English
Note
  • Originally published: London : Duckworth, 2005.
Language (note)
  • Translated from the Yiddish.
Contents
The song of Isaac (1510-11) / Anonymous -- Tales from memoirs (1691-1719) / Glikl Bas Yuda Leib -- Sir Gawain (1789) / Anonymous -- Parables (1740-1804) / The Dubno Preachers -- A tale of a king who forced the Jews to convert / Rabbi Nakhman of Braslev -- Simkhe Plakhte (late 1870s-early 1880s / Yankl Morgenshtern -- Tales (1917) / Sonya the wise woman -- Tales (1917) / Litvin -- The wolf (1920) / H. Leivick -- Raya-Mano (1922), Happiness (1909) / Hersh Dovid Nomberg -- Two stories (1912-1913) / S. Ansky -- Two tales (1925) / Moyshe Leib Halpern -- Legends of Old Prague / Shmuel Bastomski -- Yiddish folk riddles (1923) / Shloyme Bastomski -- Buddist Parables (1928) / Tashrak -- The fools of Khelm (1928) / Ben Mordkhe -- Folktales from Burgenland, Austria (1930) / Anonymous -- Two stories (1946) / Dora Shulner -- The Hasidic steam engine (1876) / Y.Y. Linyetski -- The fish that swallowed the Prophet Jonah / Mendele Moykher Sforim -- To the mountain (1922), In the forest (1922), Rebuke / Der Nister -- The Red Jews (1917) / Sholem Aleichem -- Two tales (1911) / I.M. Vaysenberg -- Two tales (1928) / Hermann Gold -- Byelorussian folklore (1932) / Leyb Kvitko -- Two tales (1928) / Fishke Bimko -- The birth of Satan / Sholom Asch -- The story of Bovo (1878) / Anonymous prose version of the Bovo book.
Call Number
*PTL 06-197
ISBN
  • 1585677310
  • 1585677892 (pbk.)
OCLC
62338275
Title
Radiant days, haunted nights : great tales from the treasury of Yiddish folk literature / translated, compiled and introduced by Joachim Neugroschel.
Imprint
New York : Overlook Duckworth, 2005.
Language
Translated from the Yiddish.
Local Note
Ania R. Hoptman Memorial Fund for Jewish Literature.
Added Author
Neugroschel, Joachim.
Research Call Number
*PTL 06-197
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