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No star too beautiful: Yiddish stories from 1382 to the present
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From the Book - 1st ed.
Introduction: Yiddish - The Longest Journey
Virtuous Joseph (1382) / Anonymous
Debate Between Wine and Water (1517) / Zalman Sofer
War of the Holy Days (1517) / Zalman Khasak
Tale of Mainz - The Two Half Brothers (ca. ?1520) / Anonymous
Bovo of Altona, Chapters 1-3 (1507; publ. 1541) / Eli Bokhur
Abraham's Childhood (1584-86) / Anonymous
Peasant and the Scribe, from The Book of Cows (1595) / Anonymous
Six Tales from The Mayse Book (1602) / Jacob ben Abraham of Mezritch
Noah and the Flood, from Tsene-Rene (?1608-22) / Yakov ben Yitskhok Ashkenazi
Two Spells from Medical Manuals (?16th-17th century) / Anonymous
West Indian Tale (ca. 1665) / Anonymous
Queen of Sheba in the House of the Sun, from The Book of Miracles (1696), No. 2 / Yiftakh Yospe ben Naftali ha-Levi
Two Fables from The Book of Fables (1697) / Moshe Vallikh
Tale of the Pious Jew, from Memoirs (1691-1719) / Glikl bas Yuda Leib
Princess and the Seven Geese (1714-22) / Anonymous
Five Stories about Till Eulenspiegel (1735) / Anonymous
From In Praise of the Baal-Shem-Tov (1815) / Dov Ber ben Shmuel of Linets
Stories about the Tsadiks / Anonymous
Parables / The Dubno Preacher
Tale of a King's Son Who Was Switched at Birth ..., from Tales (1815) / Rabbi Nakhman of Braslev
Selections from The Revealer of Secrets (1819) / Yoysef Perl
Fables (early 19th century) / Shloyme Etinger
Panic, or The Town of Herres (1868) / Aizik-Meyer Dik
Hasidic Boy, Chapters 1-4 (1867) / Yitsik-Yoyl Linyetsky
Little Man, or The Life Story of Yitsik-Avrom, the Power Broker (1864-66) / Mendele Moykher-Sforim
Shem and Japheth on a Train (1890) / Mendele Moykher-Sforim
From The Jewish Muzhik (1894) / Mordkhe Spector
Crisis, Chapters 1-3 (1905) / Yankev Dinezon
On the Stagecoach (1891) / Yitsik Leybesh Peretz
Cabalists (1891) / Yitsik Leybesh Peretz
Stories (1903) / Yitsik Leybesh Peretz
Hear, O Israel, or The Bassist (1920) / Yitsik Leybesh Peretz
Mendel the Turk (1892) / S. Ansky (Shloyme-Zanvl Rapoport)
Starveling (1892) / S. Ansky (Shloyme-Zanvl Rapoport)
Anonymous Folktales, from The Destruction of Galicia (1920) / S. Ansky (Shloyme-Zanvl Rapoport)
Seventy-five Thousand (A Pack of Tsoris) (1902) / Sholom Aleichem
How Long Does a Pogrom Last? (1911) / Alexander Kapel
Cross (1909) / Lamed Shapiro
Two Roads (1922) / Dovid Bergelson
Without a Name (1922) / Dovid Bergelson
Deaf Man (1906) / Dovid Bergelson
In the Madhouse (1893) / Dovid Pinsky
Father and His Sons (1911) / I. M. Vaysenberg
Archbishop (1919) / Fradel Shtok
In the Mountains (1922) / Hersh Dovid Nomberg
From The Golem, or The Miraculous Deeds of Rabbi Liva (1904) / Yudl Rosenberg
Encounter (1920) / Fishl Bimko
Wounded Man (1923) / Avrom Zak
From a Letter, from Barrack and War (1927) / Yankev Kreplak
Hear, O Israel (1926) / Yoysef Tenenboim
Legend (1920) / Yeshue Perle
He (1918) / H. Leivick
Apartment No. Four (1914) / Leon Kobrin
Woman in Chains, Chapters 1-2 (1919) / Sarah Smith
Story of Beautiful Marie (1921) / Sholem Asch
Magda (1917) / Y. Y. Singer
Jew Who Destroyed the Temple (1917) / Avrom Reyzen
First Photograph (1920) / Avrom Reyzen
Beheaded (1922) / Der Nister
Canary (1922) / Shloyme Gilbert
Miss Bertha (1924) / Yoyne Rosenfeld
Open Grave (1937) / Yoysef Smolazh
What Became of the Fools of Khelm?, from The Fools of Khelm (1930) / Menakhem Kipnis
Zelmenyaners, Book I (1931) / Moyshe Kulbak
Aunt from Norfolk, from Shadows on the Sun (1938) / Bertha Lelchuk
She's Found an Audience, from Trunks and Branches (1954) / Sarah Hamer-Jacklyn
End of the Road (1957) / Rokhl Korn
Zubak (1967) / Avrom Karpinovitsh
Dog Blood, from Gebentshte Hent (Blessed Hands) (1963) / Frume Halpern
Roman Philosopher Writes a Letter (1958) / Y. Y. Trunk
Dybbuk (1931) / Dovid-Leyb Mekler
Mirror, from Gimpel the Fool (1957) / Isaac Bashevis Singer
Empire of Kalman the Cripple, Chapters 1-2 (1997) / Yehuda Elberg
Bociany, Chapter 1 (2000) / Chava Rosenfarb.
From the Book
Part one: Old Yiddish period: 1382 to the mid-eighteenth century
Part two: Hasidism and Anti-Hasidism, Mysticism and moralism: eighteenth and early nineteenth century
Part three: Haskala (Jewish enlightenment): nineteenth century
Part four: Modernism: nineteenth century to the present.
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