Have I got a story for you : more than a century of fiction from the Forward /
Collects forty-two short stories translated into English, originally published in the American Yiddish newspaper, the Forward.
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
W. W. Norton & Company,
[2017]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Golde's lament / Rokhl Brokhes
- Shneur Zadobnik and Motke the Hatter / Abraham Cahan
- Collecting rent / Morris Rosenfeld
- 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 / B. Kovner
- Annie ; By a far shore / Roshelle Weprinsky
- Compatriots / Sarah Hamer-Jacklyn
- Friends / Hersh Dovid Nomberg
- Who will prevail? / Avrom Reyzen
- The devoted cousin ; The young widow ; She waits / Yente Serdatsky
- At prayer ; A country girl ; To go, or not to go? ; The grandmother ; Poor Sammy! ; Her dowry / Lyala Kaufman
- She wants to be different ; In the automat / Miriam Raskin
- The Jewish soldier / Sholem Asch
- On the eve of battle / David Bergelson
- Bakhmatsch Station / Israel Joshua Singer
- The edge of death / David Zaritski
- After liberation / Wolf Karmiol
- A holiday / Yona Rozenfeld
- That which is forbidden / Zalman Schneour
- In a friendly hamlet / Miriam Karpilove
- A house on the hill / Kadya Molodowsky
- The hotel / Isaac Bashevis Singer
- Grandfathers and grandchildren / Chaim Grade
- A journey back in time / Blume Lempel
- Mona Bubbe / Yente Mash
- Hallo / Mikhoel Felsenbaum
- Studies in Solfège / Boris Sandler.