Beautiful as the moon, radiant as the stars : Jewish women in Yiddish stories : an anthology / edited by Sandra Bark; introduction by Francine Prose.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bark, Sandra.

Language:

English

Yiddish

Subjects (All):

Short stories, Yiddish--Translations into English.

Short stories, Yiddish.

Yiddish fiction--20th century--Translations into English.

Yiddish fiction.

Jewish women--Fiction.

Jewish women.

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 335 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Warner Books, [2003]

Summary:

- This book is certain to appeal to the millions of Jewish women interested in Jewish literature and the writings of Cynthia Ozick, Francine Prose, and Grace Paley. Beautifully packaged, it is an ideal Mother's Day or Bat-Mitzvah gift.- This volume contains translations of Yiddish stories from eminent scholars--including an Isaac Bashevis Singer story that has never before been published in English--and well-known tales that Jewish readers everywhere love.- As bestsellers such as "Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer (Houghton Mifflin, 4/02) and "For the Relief of Unbearable Urges by Nathan Englander (Knopf, 1999) have demonstrated, there is a strong interest in Jewish stories.- Yiddish culture and music have seen a resurgence in recent years. NPR's "All Things Considered aired a series of highly acclaimed documentaries about the Yiddish Radio Project and Klezmer musicians regularly play at top alternative venues.

Contents:

Kaddish / Dvora Baron 1

The Sack with Pink Stripes / Rachel H. Korn 9

Winter Berries / Fradel Schtok 21

My First Readers / Rochel Faygenberg 29

At the Rich Relatives / Celia Dropkin 55

At the Mill / Fradel Schtok 75

The Four-Ruble War / Helen Londynski 83

Yentl the Yeshiva Boy / Isaac Bashevis Singer 101

A Satin Coat / Esther Singer Kreitman 131

Androgynous / Isaac Bashevis Singer 153

Hodel / Sholom Aleichem 171

Spring / David Bergelson 191

Bella Fell in Love / Celia Dropkin 211

Rosh Hashanah / Yente Serdatzky 233

Two Heads / Yente Serdatzky 243

In the Boardinghouse / David Bergelson 247

Bryna's Mendl / I. L. Peretz 259

Bubbe Henya / Dvora Baron 269

Bubbe Malke / Shira Gorshman 279

Scenes on a Bare Canvas / Blume Lempel 291

The Fourth Mitzvah / Kadya Molodowsky 303

The Death of My Aunt / Blume Lempel 309.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-328).

ISBN:

0446691364

OCLC:

52216264