No star too beautiful : Yiddish stories from 1382 to the present / edited and translated by Joachim Neugroschel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Neugroschel, Joachim.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Yiddish

Subjects (All):

Yiddish literature--Translations into English.

Yiddish literature.

Jews--Literary collections.

Jews.

Genre:

Literary collections.

Short stories.

Literature.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xvii pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 710 pages, 6 unnumbered pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

No star too beautiful : a treasury of Yiddish stories

Place of Publication:

New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2002]

Summary:

First developed and written in medieval Germany, Yiddish eventually became the everyday speech of Jews throughout Europe and later globally. No Star Too Beautiful is a bountiful anthology that brings together the masterpieces of this now-vanishing tongue. Joachim Neugroschel has chosen stories emblematic of the people and their times, from the earliest extant written work to the present. Neugroschel has newly translated almost all the stories, some appearing in English for the first time, and his introductions to the pieces give the reader insight into the writers' lives and times.

Contents:

Part One. The 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. The Haskala (Jewish Enlightenment): Nineteenth Century

Part Four. Modernism: Nineteenth Century to the Present.

ISBN:

0393051900

0393326179

OCLC:

49618829