From the Jewish Provinces: Selected Stories PDF
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FROM THE JEW ISH PROV I NCES F RO M T H E J E W I S H P ROV I N C E S SELECTED STORIES FR ADL SHTOK TRANSLATED FROM THE YIDDISH BY JORDAN D. FINKIN AND ALLISON SCHACHTER northwestern university press evanston, illinois Northwestern University Press www.nupress.northwestern.edu Copyright © 2022 by Northwestern University. Published 2022 by Northwestern University Press. All rights reserved. “The Fur Salesman” was first published in Yiddish in the Forward on November 19, 1942; all other stories are selected from Fradl Shtok’s 1919 Gezamelte Ertsehlungen (Collected stories). Printed in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data Names: Stock, Fradel, 1890– 1990, author. | Finkin, Jordan D., 1976– translator. | Schachter, Allison, 1974– translator. Title: From the Jewish provinces : selected stories / Fradl Shtok ; translated from the Yiddish by Jordan D. Finkin and Allison Schachter. Description: Evanston : Northwestern University Press, 2021. | Translated from Yiddish into English. Identifiers: LCCN 2021031323 | ISBN 9780810144392 (paperback) | ISBN 9780810144408 (cloth) | ISBN 9780810144415 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Stock, Fradel, 1890– 1990— Translations into English. | Women— Austria— Fiction. | Women— New York (State)— New York— Fiction. | LCGFT: Short stories. Classification: LCC PJ5129.S78 F7613 2021 | DDC 839.133— dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021031323 To Chana Kronfeld That is poetry. Touch it so lightly that you don’t leave a fingerprint. — Abraham Sutzkever (translated by Chana Bloch) contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction xi Sources xxvii Translators’ Note xxxi European Stories The First Train 3 The Daredevil 8 In the Village 12 By the Mill 15 A Glass 19 The Veil 23 Hinde Gitel’s Daughter- in- Law 27 The Archbishop 31 Friedrich Schiller 38 Another Bride 42 Viburnum 46 Almonds 50 The Pear Tree 54 Shorn Hair 58 Wine 61 White Furs 65 Cholera 69 A Spa 73 American Stories A Cut 79 The First Patient 82 A Dance 86 A Speech 91 Sisters 95 The Final Story A Fur Salesman 101 acknowledgments We are grateful to the Yiddish Book Center for the Translation Fellowship that allowed us to workshop several of these stories alongside talented translators and mentors, including Sebastian Schulman, Katherine Sil- ver, and Karen Emmerich. Our deep gratitude goes to Dick Cluster for his many close reads and exceptionally helpful suggestions. We would also like to thank Nancy Reisman, Wendy Zierler, and Ben Tran for their astute comments. We would like to acknowledge the Forward, where the story “A Fur Mer- chant” first appeared in Yiddish (November 19, 1942), and Your Impossible Voice, no. 19 (2019) and Pakn Treger (Summer 2020), where our transla- tions of “A Cut” and “The First Patient” were first published, respectively. ix
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