The I.L. Peretz reader /
Isaac Leybush Peretz (1852-1915) is one of the most influential figures of modern Jewish culture. Born in Poland and dedicated to Yiddish culture, he recognized that Jews needed to adapt to their times while preserving their cultural heritage, and his captivating and beautiful writings explore the c...
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| Language: | English Yiddish |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press
Ã2002.
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| Series: | New Yiddish library.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt32bn87 |
Table of Contents:
- Monish
- Impressions of a journey through the Tomaszow region
- Venus and Shulasmith
- What is the soul?
- In the mail coach
- Bryna's Mendl
- A musician's death
- The pious cat
- The golem
- The Shabbes goy
- The poor boy
- Bontshe Shvayg
- Kabbalists
- A contribution for a wedding
- The dead town
- Uncle Shakhne and Aunt Yakhne
- If not higher
- A conversation
- Between two mountains
- The missing melody
- Stories
- Revelation; or, the story of the billy goat
- The magician
- Three gifts
- Downcast eyes
- A chapter of the Psalms
- A pinch of snuff
- Yom Kippur in hell
- My memoirs
- A night in the old marketplace.