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HCREHSURy OF ViDDlSB STORIES Edited by IRVING HOWE and EL1EZER GREENBERG SCHOCKEN PAPERBACKS ON JEWISH LIFE AND RELIGION The World of the Talmud ADLER, MORRIS The Bridal Canopy AGNON, S. Y. AGNON, S. Y. Days of Awe SHOLOM ALEICHEM Inside Kasrilevke AYALTI, HANAN J., ed. Yiddish Proverbs BABEL, ISAAC Benya Krik, the Gangster BAECK, LEO The Essence of Judaism Sigmund Freud & Jewish Mystical Tradition BAKAN, DAVID BAMBERGER, BERNARD J. The Story of Judaism BERGMAN, SAMUEL HUGO Faith and Reason BICKERMAN, ELIAS From Ezra to the Last of the Maccabees BLOCKER, JOEL, ed. Israeli Stories BROTZ, HOWARD The Black Jews of Harlem BUBER, MARTIN Israel and the World BUBER, MARTIN Legend of the Baal-Shem BUBER, MARTIN Tales of the Hasidim, 2 volumes BURNSHAW, STANLEY The Modern Hebrew Poem Itself CHAGALL, BELLA & MARC Burning Lights DAYAN, MOSHE Diary of the Sinai Campaign DUNLOP, D. M. The History of the Jewish Khazars GLATZER, NAHUM N. Franz Rosenzweig GLATZER, NAHUM N., ed. Hammer on the Rock—Midrash Reader GLATZER, NAHUM N., ed. A Jewish Reader GLATZER, NAHUM N., ed. The Passover Haggadah GOITEIN, S. D. Jews and Arabs CORDIS, ROBERT Koheleth—The Man and His World JUDAH HALEVI The Kuzari HALKIN, SIMON Modern Hebrew Literature HAPGOOD, HUTCHINS The Spirit of the Ghetto HAUSNER, GIDEON Justice in Jerusalem HERFORD, R. TRAVERS, ed. The Ethics of the Talmud IDELSOHN, A. Z. Jewish Liturgy and Its Development IDELSOHN, A. Z. Jewish Music in Its Historical Development KAPLAN, MORDECAI M. Judaism as a Civilization LESLAU, WOLF, ed. Falasha Anthology—Black Jews of Ethiopia LEVI & KAPLAN Guide for the Jewish Homemaker NEUSNER, JACOB History and Torah NEWMAN, LOUIS The Hasidic Anthology OLSVANGER, IMMANUEL, ed. Royte Pomerantsen POLL, SOLOMON The Hasidic Community of Williamsburg PRINZ, JOACHIM Popes From the Ghetto RANKIN, O.'S. Israel’s Wisdom Literature ROSENZWEIG, FRANZ On Jewish Learning ROTH, CECIL History of the Jews ROUTTENBERG & SELDIN The Jewish Wedding Book RUBIN, RUTH, ed. A Treasury of Jewish Folksong SAMUEL, MAURICE The World of Sholom Aleichem SARNA, NAHUM M. Understanding Genesis SARTRE, JEAN-PAUL Anti-Semite and Jew SCHAUSS, HAYYIM Guide to Jewish Holy Days SCHECHTER, SOLOMON Aspects of Rabbinic Theology SCHOLEM, GERSHOM Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism SCHOLEM, GERSHOM On the Kabbalah and Its Symbolism SCHURER, EMIL History of Jewish People in the Time of Jesus SHAHN, BEN The Alphabet of Creation SPIEGEL, SHALOM The Last Trial SPIRO, MELFORD Children of the Kibbutz SPIRO, MELFORD Kibbutz—Venture in Utopia VISHNIAC, ROMAN Polish Jews-A Pictorial Record WEIZMANN, CHAIM Trial and Error ZBOROWSKI & HERZOG Life Is With People See back cover for Schocken Paperback titles in other fields. A Treasury of YIDDISH STORIES A Treasury of YIDDISH STORIES Edited by IRVING HOWE <Sl ELIEZER GREENBERG With drawings by Ben Shahn SCHOCKEN BOOKS • NEW YORK First schocken paperback edition 1973 SECOND PRINTING, 1974 Copyright © 1953, 1954 by The Viking Press, Inc Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 54-9599 Manufactured in the United States of America Acknowledgment is made to the publishers named for the right to include these selections: “Hodel” and “A Page from the Song of Songs” from The Old Country by Sholom Aleichem, translated by Julius and Frances Butwin, copyright 1946 by Crown Publishers, Inc.; “Sand” and “Re¬ pentance” from The River Breaks Up by I. J. Singer, translated by Maurice Samuel, copyright 1938 by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.; “Sanctifica¬ tion of the Name” from Children of Abraham by Sholem Asch, translated by Maurice Samuel, copyright 1942 by Sholem Asch, published by G. P. Putnam’s Sons. To the Six Million Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2019 with funding from Kahle/Austin Foundation https://archive.org/details/treasuryofyiddisOOOOhowe Table of Contents Introduction 1 Notes on the Authors Mendele Mocher Sforim 73 I. J. Singer 84 Sholom Aleichem 74 Jonah Rosenfeld 85 I. L. Peretz 75 I. Bashevis Singer 86 David Pinski 77 Joseph Opatoshu 87 Mordecai Spector 77 Moishe Nadir 88 Sholem Asch 78 Itzik Manger 88 Abraham Reisen 79 David Bergelson 89 I. M. Weissenberg 80 Isaac Metzker 90 Zalman Schneour 81 Pesach Marcus 91 Lamed Shapiro 82 Jacob Glatstein 91 Moishe Kulbak 83 Isaiah Spiegel 92 Chaim Grade 93 Part One THE FATHERS The Calf Mendele Mocher Sforim 97 On Account of a Hat Sholom Aleichem 111 Devotion without End /. L. Peretz 118 Part Two PORTRAIT OF A WORLD Eternal Life Sholom Aleichem 151 Hodel Sholom Aleichem 168 The Search Sholom Aleichem 182 Dreyfus in Kasrilevke Sholom Aleichem 187 vii viii Table of Contents The Pair Sholom Aleichem 192 The Dead Town I. L. Peretz 205 Ne’ilah in Gehenna I. L. Peretz 213 Cabalists 1. L. Peretz 219 Bontsha the Silent I. L. Peretz 223 If Not Higher I. L. Peretz 231 The Mad Talmudist I. L. Peretz 234 Rabbi Yochanan the Warden I. L. Peretz 242 The Golem I. L. Peretz 245 And Then He Wept David Pinski 246 A Meal for the Poor Mordecai Spector 250 Sanctification of the Name (A Legend) Sholem Asch 255 Kola Street Sholem Asch 260 The Poor Community Abraham Reisen 275 The Big Succeh Abraham Reisen 280 Tuition for the Rebbe Abraham Reisen 284 The Recluse Abraham Reisen 290 Mazel Tov 1. M. Weissenberg 295 Father and the Boys I. M. Weissenberg 297 Revenge (Extracts from a Student’s Diary) Zalman Schneour 308 The Girl Zalman Schneour 316 White Chalah Lamed Shapiro 325 Smoke Lamed Shapiro 334 The Rebbe and the Rebbetsin Lamed Shapiro 340 Munie the Bird Dealer Moishe Kulbak 342 Repentance I. J. Singer 350 Sand I. J. Singer 358 Competitors Jonah Rosenfeld 386 The Sick Goose Jonah Rosenfeld 396 Gimpel the Fool I. Bashevis Singer 401 May the Temple Be Restored! Joseph Opatoshu 414
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