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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 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"An anthology of Yiddish folk tales that never before have been available in English, Radiant Days, Haunted Nights reveals the enormous breadth and depth of Yiddish folk literature, from its roots to its full blossoming in the modern era." "Standing at the intersection of the spoken folk tale and the European tradition of printed literature, the Yiddish folk literature collected in this volume provides a fascinating glimpse into four centuries of Jewish cultural life. The collection includes not only original tales, but Yiddish retellings of biblical stories, and unexpected examples of cultural osmosis, such as a Yiddish version of an Arthurian legend." "The work compiled in Radiant Days, Haunted Nights paints a portrait of the cherished continuity - and remarkable diversity - of Jewish culture expressed through Yiddish folk literature."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Folk literature, Yiddish > Translations into English

Note

• Reprint: 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 -- Anonymous / Sir Gawain (1789) -- Parables (1740-1804) / The Dubno Preacher -- 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) / A. Litvin -- The wolf (1920) / H. Leivick -- Raya-Mano (1922) / Hersh Dovid Nomberg -- Happiness (1909) / Hersh Dovid Nomberg -- Two stories (1912, 1913) / S. Ansky -- Two tales (1925) / Moyshe Leib Halpern -- Legends of old Prague (1927) / 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) / Der Nister -- In the forest (1922) / Der Nister -- Rebuke / Der Nister -- The red Jews (1917) / Sholem Aleichem -- Two tales (1911) / I. M. Vaysenberg -- Two tales (1911) / Hermann Gold -- Byelorussian folklore (1932) / Leyb Kvitko -- Two tales (1920) / Fishke Bimko -- The birth of Satan / Sholom Asch -- The story of Bovo (1878) : anonymous prose version of The Bovo book.

ISBN

• 1585677310 :
• 1585677892 (pbk.)

OCLC

• ocm62338275
• SCSB-5218178

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries