Radiant Days, Haunted Nights Great Tales from the Treasury of Yiddish Literature

Name: Radiant Days, Haunted Nights Great Tales from the Treasury of Yiddish Literature
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ISBN: 9781585677894

ISBN-10: 1585677892

ISBN-13: 9781585677894

Edition: 2005

Authors: Joachim Neugroschel

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Aunique and rich anthology of Yiddish folk tales that never before have been available in English, compiled and translated by the award-winning Joachim Neugroschel, Radiant Days, Haunted Nights reveals the enormous breadth and depth of Yiddish folk literature, from its roots to its full blossoming in the modern era.

Book details

List price: $21.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Abrams, Inc.
Publication date: 8/29/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



Introduction


The Song of Isaac (1510-11)


Tales from Memoirs (1691-1719)


Sir Gawain (1789)


Parables (1740-1804)


A Tale of a King Who Forced the Jews to Convert


Simkhe Plakhte (late 1870s-early 1880s)


Tales (1917)


Tales (1917)


The Wolf (1920)


Raya-Mano (1922)


Happiness (1909)


Two Stories (1912, 1913)


Two Tales (1925)


Legends of Old Prague (1927)


Yiddish Folk Riddles (1923)


Buddist Parables (1928)


The Fools of Khelm (1928)


Folktales from Burgenland, Austria (1930)


Two Stories (1946)


The Hasidic Steam Engine (1876)


The Fish That Swallowed the Prophet Jonah


To the Mountain (1922)


In the Forest (1922)


Rebuke


The Red Jews (1917)


Two Tales (1911)


Two Tales (1928)


Byelorussian Folklore (1932)


Two Tales (1928)


The Birth of Satan


The Story of Bovo (1878)