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

by Joachim Neugroschel

An anthology of Yiddish folktales, previously unavailable in English and translated by a finalist for a 2001 National Jewish Book Award, encompasses a wide range of traditional folk literature from its origins to the modern era.

Genres: Fiction, Judaism

432 pages, Hardcover

First published November 28, 2005

About the author

Joachim Neugroschel (1938-2011) was the translator of some two hundred books, including works by Franz Kafka, Marcel Proust, and Thomas Mann. He won three PEN translation awards and a French-American Foundation Translation Prize.