A Shtetl and Other Yiddish Novellas 9780814339893, 0814339891

A Shtetl and Other Yiddish Novellas 9780814339893, 0814339891

The five short novellas which comprise this anthology were written between 1890 and World War I. All share a common sett

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Confessions of a Yiddish Writer and Other Essays 9780773558304

A collection of essays by the great Yiddish novelist Chava Rosenfarb, most published in English for the first time. A

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The Shtetl: Image and Reality 1351198378, 9781351198370

"There is no possibility of entering the world of Yiddish, its literature and culture, without understanding what t

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Shtetl: A Vernacular Intellectual History 9780813562742

In Yiddish, shtetl simply means “town.” How does such an unassuming word come to loom so large in modern Jewish culture,

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A Russian Immigrant: Three Novellas 9781644690376

A literary manifesto of Russian Jews in America, Shrayer’s A Russian Immigrant features the travails of Simon Reznikov,

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Mechanisms of Loss: Two Novellas 9780300255645

A duet of provocative novellas that examine contemporary Greek identity, translated by one of the foremost experts in Gr

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Suspended Sentences: Three Novellas 9780300213379

A trio of intertwined novellas from the 2014 Nobel laureate for literature

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The Shtetl: Myth and Reality 1874774765, 9781874774761

The shtetl is one of the key concepts for our understanding of the Jewish past in Eastern Europe. Although today most Je

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Bad Rabbi: And Other Strange but True Stories from the Yiddish Press 9781503603974

Stories abound of immigrant Jews on the outside looking in, clambering up the ladder of social mobility, successfully as

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A Treasury of Yiddish Stories 0805204008, 9780805204001

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