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Jewish legends

Title
Jewish legends / by Stefan Zweig ; translated by Eden and Cedar Paul ; with a new introduction by Leon Botstein.
Author
Zweig, Stefan, 1881-1942
Publication
New York : M. Wiener, 1987.

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Additional Authors
  • Paul, Eden, 1865-1944
  • Paul, Cedar
  • Botstein, Leon
Description
xxxviii, 263 pages : illustrations; 22 cm.
Summary
Stefan Zweig composed some of the loveliest Jewish stories of world literature. His interest focused on questions of humanity and eternal values. These are the themes of the legends. The Legends were first published in a 1945 Stockholm edition in German, under the title Legenden. They have appeared separately in various English-language volumes; here they are compiled for the first American edition --
Series Statement
Masterworks of modern Jewish writing series
Uniform Title
  • Legenden. English
  • Masterworks of modern Jewish writing series.
Alternative Title
Legenden.
Subject
  • Jews > Fiction
  • Jews
Genre/Form
  • Fictional Work
  • Legends.
  • Fiction.
  • German fiction.
  • Légendes.
  • Romans.
Note
  • Translation of: Legenden.
Contents
The buried candelabrum -- Rachel arraigns with God -- The legend of the third dove -- Virata, or, The eyes of the undying brother -- Buchmendel.
ISBN
  • 0910129592
  • 9780910129596
LCCN
86040569
OCLC
  • ocm15856454
  • 15856454
  • SCSB-1186820
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library