Have I got a story for you
Subtitle: more than a century of fiction from the Forward
By: edited by Ezra Glinter ; introduction by Dara Horn
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 433
ISBN-13: 9780393062700
Subjects: Yiddish Short stories; Translations into English
Other titles: Forṿerṭs (New York, N.Y.); 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.
Description: Collects forty-two short stories translated into English, originally published in the American Yiddish newspaper, the Forward.
Notes: Consists of  Forty-two short stories translated into English, originally published in the Yiddish newspaper, the Forward.
Table of contents: title: Golde's lament  -- Rokhl Brokhes; title: Shneur Zadobnik and Motke the Hatter  -- Abraham Cahan; title: Collecting rent  -- Morris Rosenfeld; title: Brownsville looks to the heavens  -- B. Kovner; title: Yente describes a strike  -- B. Kovner; title: Yente and Mendel look for rooms  -- B. Kovner; title: How Pinnie celebrated election day  -- B. Kovner; title: Yente and Mendel and Mendel Beilis  -- B. Kovner; title: Pinnie grows to be a businessman  -- B. Kovner; title: Rooms with steam heat  -- B. Kovner; title: Yente at the Metropolitan Opera  -- B. Kovner; title: Annie  -- Roshelle Weprinsky; title: Compatriots  -- Sarah Hamer-Jacklyn; title: Friends  -- Hers Dovid Nomber; title: Who will prevail  -- Avrom Reyzen; title: The devoted cousin  -- Tente Serdatsky; title: The young widow  -- Yente Serdatsky; title: She wait  -- Yente Serdatsky; title: At prayer  -- Lyala Kaufman; title: A country girl  -- Lyala Kaufman / -- To go, or not to go / -- Lyala Kaufman; title: Poor Sammy!  -- Lyala Kaufman; title: Her dowry  -- Lyala Kaufman; title: She wants to be different  -- Miriam Raskin; title: In the automat  -- Miriam Raskin; title: The Jewish soldier  -- Sholem Asch; title: On the eve of battle  -- David Bergelson; title: Bakhmatsch Station  -- Israel Joshua Singer; title: The edge of death  -- David Zaritski; title: After liberation  -- Wolf Karmiol; title: A holiday  -- Yona Rozenfeld; title: That which is forbidden  -- Zalman Schneour; title: In a friendly hamlet  -- Miriam Karpilove; title: A house on the hill  -- Kadya Molodowksy; title: The hotel  -- Isaac Bashevis Singer; title: Granfathers and grandchildren  -- Chaim Grade; title: A journey back in time  -- Bluem Lempel; title: Mona Bubbe  -- Yente Mash; title: Hallo  -- Mikhoel Felsenbaum; title: Studies in Solfege -- Boris Sandler..