Have I got a story for you : more than a century of fiction from the Forward /

Have I got a story for you : more than a century of fiction from the Forward /

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Bibliographic Details
Edition:First edition.
Imprint:New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2017]
©2017
Description:xxi, 433 pages ; 25 cm
Language:English
Subject:
Jews -- Fiction.
Short stories, Yiddish -- Translations into English.
Short stories.
Short stories.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11015510
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Other title:Golde's lament.
Shneur Zadobnik and Motke the Hatter.
Collecting rent.
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.
Jewish soldier.
Grandfathers and grandchildren.
Bakhmatsch Station.
Other uniform titles:Forṿerṭs (New York, N.Y.)
Other authors / contributors:Glinter, Ezra, editor.
Horn, Dara, 1977- writer of introduction.
ISBN:9780393062700
0393062708
Notes:Collects forty-two short stories translated into English, originally published in the American Yiddish newspaper, the Forward.
Summary:"The Forward, founded in 1897, is the most renowned Yiddish newspaper in the world. It welcomed generations of immigrants to the United States, brought them news of Europe and the Middle East, and provided them with sundry comforts such as comic strips and noodle kugel recipes. It also published some of the most acclaimed Yiddish fiction writers of all time: Nobel Prize laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer on justice slyly being served when the governor of Lublin comes to town; celebrated Forward editor Abraham Cahan on how place and luck can change character; and Roshelle Weprinsky, setting her story in Florida, on the rupture between European parents and American children. Cahan described the newspaper as a "living novel," with good reason. Taken together, these stories reveal the human side of the challenges that faced Jews throughout this time, including immigration, modernization, poverty, assimilation, the two world wars, and changing forms of Jewish identity. These concerns were taken up by a diverse group of writers, from novelists Sholem Asch and Chaim Grade to short-story writers like Lyala Kaufman and Miriam Karpilove. Ezra Glinter has combed through the archives to find the best stories published during the newspaper's 120-year history, digging up such varied works as wartime novellas, avant-garde fiction, and satirical sketches about immigrant life in New York. Glinter's introductions to the thematic sections and short biographies of the contributors provide insight into the concerns of not only the writers but also their avid readers. The collection has been rendered into English by today's best Yiddish translators, who capture the sound of the authors and the subtleties of nuance and context."--Publisher's description.
Standard no.:40026552956
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Section 1. Immigration and Its Discontents
  • Rokhl Brokhes
  • Golde's Lament
  • Abraham Cahan
  • Shneur Zadobnik and Motke the Hatter
  • Morris Rosenfeld
  • Collecting Rent
  • B. Kovner
  • 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
  • Roshelle Weprinsky
  • Annie
  • By a Far Shore
  • Sarah Hamer-Jacklyn
  • Compatriots
  • Section 2. Modern Times
  • Hersh Dovid Nomberg
  • Friends
  • Avrom Reyzen
  • Who Will Prevail?
  • Yente Serdatsky
  • The Devoted Cousin
  • The Young Widow
  • She Waits
  • Lyala Kaufman
  • At Prayer
  • A Country Girl
  • To Go, or Not to Go?
  • The Grandmother
  • Poor Sammy!
  • Her Dowry
  • Miriam Raskin
  • She Wants to Be Different
  • In the Automat
  • Section 3. World on Fire
  • Sholem Asch
  • The Jewish Soldier
  • David Bergelson
  • On the Eve of Battle
  • Israel Joshua Singer
  • Bakhmatsch Station
  • David Zaritski
  • The Edge of Death
  • Wolf Karmiol
  • After Liberation
  • Section 4. The Old Country
  • Yona Rozenfeld
  • A Holiday
  • Zalman Schneour
  • That Which Is Forbidden
  • Miriam Karpilove
  • In a Friendly Hamlet
  • Kadya Molodowsky
  • A House on the Hill
  • Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • The Hotel
  • Chaim Grade
  • Grandfathers and Grandchildren
  • Section 5. New Horizons
  • Blume Lempel
  • A Journey Back in Time
  • Yente Mash
  • Mona Bubbe
  • Mikhoel Felsenbaum
  • Hallo
  • Boris Sandler
  • Studies in Solfège
  • Translators
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