A Treasury of Yiddish Stories: Revised and Updated Edition

by Irving Howe (Editor), Eliezer Greenberg (Editor)

Collecting fifty-two Yiddish short stories into a single volume, this anthology of tales about life in the shetl and other aspects of the Jewish experience includes some of the most important literature produced by Jewish writers in the last two centuries

Genres: Jewish, Judaism, Fiction, Short Stories, Judaica

688 pages, Hardcover

First published January 19, 1965

About the author

Irving Howe was an American literary and social critic and a prominent figure of the Democratic Socialists of America.

Reviews

[Nrosenberg · Rating 5 out of 5]

An amazing collection of Yiddish short stories. Definitely check out "The Calf" by Mendele Mocher Sforim, "Ne'ilah in Gehenna," "Bontsha the Silent," and "If Not Higher" by I L Peretz. "White Chalah" by Lamed Shapiro and "Repentance" by I J Singer are also highlights for me.

[Laura · Rating 1 out of 5]

I wanted to like these stories, but they are all so damn depressing!

[lifeisjustablurblog]

Read ‘On Account of a Hat’

[Jake Cooper · Rating 3 out of 5]

Read ~half the 50+ stories, and only 1 called to me (Sholem Aleichem's The Search). Today, Yiddish interest is associated with secularism; these stories, naturally, aren't.

[Elwood D Pennypacker]

I learned a couple of things: some people’s love for a farm animal is real L O V E. And when in doubt, wish someone that they should get cholera.