Research Catalog

Title

The book of fire, stories. Translated from the Yiddish by Joseph Leftwich.

Author

Peretz, Isaac Leib, 1851 or 1852-1915.

Publication

New York, Yoseloff [1960]

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Details

Additional Authors

Leftwich, Joseph, 1892-1983

Description

448 pages; 24 cm

Subject

Yiddish literature > Translations into English

Genre/Form

• Fiction
• Jewish fiction.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Introduction -- Joyful rejoicing -- Chassidic song -- Extirpated -- The story of the he-goat who couldn't say no -- The Baal Shem arranges a marriage -- The wedding gift -- Sarah Bath Tuvim -- Revelation -- The feast of the sabbath queen -- The lust for clothes -- The dowry -- A conversation -- The Shofar -- How the Yeshiva in the forest ceased to exist -- The hermit and the bear -- The Melamed of Chelm -- The days of the Messiah -- Old junk -- An exchange of letters -- The benefactor -- The canon's favorite -- Mendel Braine's -- Uncle Shachne and aunt Yachne.
• The Din Torah -- Go to Chedar Scamps -- What is a soul? -- The apron -- Downcast eyes -- Purim players -- The musician's death -- The tailor's story -- Country holiday -- The joys of parenthood -- Luckless -- Lonely -- Shammai Rothman -- The sacrifice -- Two brothers -- The poor boy -- What the moon tells -- The fast -- How a hermit stopped being a hermit -- Yankel pessimist -- Weaver love -- The pond -- Log tales -- In time of plague -- In the post chaise -- The seventh candle -- The outcast -- Chanukah lights -- Good! -- Not sentenced -- The victim.

LCCN

^^^60009881^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library