A Shtetl and Other Yiddish Novellas Edited by Ruth R. Wisse Discount and Moscow

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and a new life in Israel

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This remarkable volume introduces to the large English-speaking audience what is probably the most coherent segment of twentieth-century American literature not written in English

A Shtetl and Other Yiddish Novellas Edited by Ruth R. Wisse Discount and MoscowThe five short novellas which comprise this anthology were written between 1890 and World War I. All share a common setting the Eastern European Jewish town or shtetl, and all deal in different ways with a single topic the Jewish confrontation with modernity. The authors of these novellas are among the greatest masters of Yiddish prose. In their work, today's reader will discover a literary tradition of considerable scope, energy, and variety and will