18 : Jewish stories translated from 18 languages

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"This is the first anthology of translated multilingual Jewish fiction in 25 years: a collection of 18 splendid stories, each translated into English from a different language: Albanian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Ladino, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, and Yiddish. These compelling, humorous, and moving stories, written by eminent authors that include Shmuel Yosef Agnon, I...

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ISBN:

9798887192062

Description:

186 pages ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Eighteen
18 Jewish stories translated from 18 languages
Eighteen Jewish stories translated from eighteen languages

Notes:

Canadiana
Includes bibliographical references

Contents:

Hostage / Elie Wiesel
The guest / Varda Fiszbein
And the crooked shall be made straight / Shmuel Yosef Agnon
The first Christmas / Gábor T. Szántó
Purimspiel / Jasminka Domaš
Purchase of goods of dubious origin / Augusto Segre
The rebbetzin's sense of justice / Lili Berger
New York / Peter Sichrovsky
Golem / Maciej Płaza
Frozen spring-Jerusalem returning / Entela Kasi
Place of birth : report on the state of the union / Norman Manea
Sonata in Auschwitz / Luize Valente
The washerwoman's daughter / Eliya Rafael Karmona
A place nowhere / Birte Kont
The researcher / Michel Fais
Luck / Irena Dousková
Where were you when darkness fell / Mario Levi
Red cavalry / Isaac Babel

Control Number:

3283911

Other Authors:

Gold, Nora, editor
Lambert, Joshua N., writer of foreword

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