Radiant days, haunted nights : great tales from the treasury of Yiddish folk literature /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | Translated from the Yiddish. |
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New York :
Overlook Duckworth,
2005.
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Table of Contents:
- The song of Isaac (1510-11) / Anonymous
- Tales from memoirs (1691-1719) / Glikl Bas Yuda Leib
- Sir Gawain (1789) / Anonymous
- Parables (1740-1804) / The Dubno Preachers
- A tale of a king who forced the Jews to convert / Rabbi Nakhman of Braslev
- Simkhe Plakhte (late 1870s-early 1880s / Yankl Morgenshtern
- Tales (1917) / Sonya the wise woman
- Tales (1917) / Litvin
- The wolf (1920) / H. Leivick
- Raya-Mano (1922), Happiness (1909) / Hersh Dovid Nomberg
- Two stories (1912-1913) / S. Ansky
- Two tales (1925) / Moyshe Leib Halpern
- Legends of Old Prague / Shmuel Bastomski
- Yiddish folk riddles (1923) / Shloyme Bastomski
- Buddist Parables (1928) / Tashrak
- The fools of Khelm (1928) / Ben Mordkhe
- Folktales from Burgenland, Austria (1930) / Anonymous
- Two stories (1946) / Dora Shulner
- The Hasidic steam engine (1876) / Y.Y. Linyetski
- The fish that swallowed the Prophet Jonah / Mendele Moykher Sforim
- To the mountain (1922), In the forest (1922), Rebuke / Der Nister
- The Red Jews (1917) / Sholem Aleichem
- Two tales (1911) / I.M. Vaysenberg
- Two tales (1928) / Hermann Gold
- Byelorussian folklore (1932) / Leyb Kvitko
- Two tales (1928) / Fishke Bimko
- The birth of Satan / Sholom Asch
- The story of Bovo (1878) / Anonymous prose version of the Bovo book.