No star too beautiful: Yiddish stories from 1382 to the present

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.

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.