San Antonio College Library

This is a comprehensive and critical study of Yiddish literature. Written simply and with persuasive clarity, it makes evident the genuine importance of Yiddish fiction and poetry written over the past century. This wealth of writing, mostly unknown to those unfamiliar with the language, is discussed in detail in order to provide the reader with an appreciative understanding of its content, breadth of view, historic elements, and literary significance....

A treasury of Yiddish literature features stories that represent Jewish traditions, culture, and history in a volume that includes works from the earliest literary periods through the present-day writings of I.B. Singer.

The dybbuk, a dead person's soul that possesses a living person, is an ancient and fascinating part of Jewish folklore in Eastern Europe. The stories in this collection, none of which has been translated before, illuminate the different aspects of the Jewish mystical world, including possessions, transmigration, fairy tales, parables and miracles.

These 26 stories reflect the changes that occurred with age-old Jewish traditions came into contact, in ways that resulted in either conflict or fusion, with the ideas of the New World.