Have I got a story for you : more than a century of fiction from the Forward / edited by Ezra Glinter ; introduction by Dara Horn.

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Book
Language
English
Εdition
First edition.
Published/​Created
  • New York, N.Y. : W.W. Norton & Company, [2017]
  • ©2017
Description
xxi, 433 pages ; 25 cm

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    Summary note
    Collects forty-two short stories translated into English, originally published in the American Yiddish newspaper, the Forward.
    Notes
    Consists of forty-two short stories translated into English, originally published in the Yiddish newspaper, the Forward.
    Language note
    Translated from the Yiddish.
    Contents
    • Golde's lament / Rokhl Brokhes
    • Shneur Zadobnik and Motke the Hatter / Abraham Cahan
    • Collecting rent / Morris Rosenfeld
    • Brownsville looks to the heavens ; Yente describes a strike ; Yente and Mendel look for rooms ; How Pinnie celebrated Election Day ; Yente and Mendel and Mendel Beilis ; Pinnie grows to be a businessman ; Rooms with steam heat ; Yente at the Metropolitan Opera / B. Kovner
    • Annie ; By a far shore / Roshelle Weprinsky
    • Compatriots / Sarah Hamer-Jacklyn
    • Friends / Hersh Dovid Nomberg
    • Who will prevail? / Avrom Reyzen
    • The devoted cousin ; The young widow ; She waits / Yente Serdatsky
    • At prayer ; A country girl ; To go, or not to go? ; The grandmother ; Poor Sammy! ; Her dowry / Lyala Kaufman
    • She wants to be different ; In the automat / Miriam Raskin
    • The Jewish soldier / Sholem Asch
    • On the eve of battle / David Bergelson
    • Bakhmatsch Station / Israel Joshua Singer
    • The edge of death / David Zaritski
    • After liberation / Wolf Karmiol
    • A holiday / Yona Rozenfeld
    • That which is forbidden / Zalman Schneour
    • In a friendly hamlet / Miriam Karpilove
    • A house on the hill / Kadya Molodowsky
    • The hotel / Isaac Bashevis Singer
    • Grandfathers and grandchildren / Chaim Grade
    • A journey back in time / Blume Lempel
    • Mona Bubbe / Yente Mash
    • Hallo / Mikhoel Felsenbaum
    • Studies in Solfège / Boris Sandler.
    Other title(s)
    • Forṿerṭs (New York, N.Y.)
    • Golde's lament. English.
    • Shneur Zadobnik and Motke the Hatter. English.
    • Collecting rent. English.
    • Brownsville looks to the heavens. English.
    • Yente describes a strike. English.
    • Yente and Mendel look for rooms. English.
    • How Pinnie celebrated election day. English.
    • Yente and Mendel and Mendel Beilis. English.
    • Pinnie grows to be a businessman. English.
    • Rooms with steam heat. English.
    • Annie. English.
    • By a far shore. English.
    • Compatriots. English.
    ISBN
    • 9780393062700 ((hardcover))
    • 0393062708 ((hardcover))
    LCCN
    2016018411
    OCLC
    957696482
    Other standard number
    • 40026552956
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