18 : : Jewish Stories Translated from 18 Languages / / ed. by Nora Gold.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Complete eBook-Package 2023
• MitwirkendeR: Agnon, Shmuel Yosef,; Babel, Isaac,; Berger, Lily,; Domaš, Jasminka,; Dousková, Irena,; Fais, Michel,; Fiszbein, Varda,; Gold, Nora,; Karmona, Eliya Rafael,; Kasi, Entela,; Kont, Birte,; Lambert, Josh,; Levi, Mario,; Manea, Norman,; Płaza, Maciej,; Segre, Augusto,; Sichrovsky, Peter,; Szántó, Gábor T.,; Valente, Luize,; Wiesel, Elie,
• HerausgeberIn: Gold, Nora,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (188 p.)

A 2023 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Finalist in the Anthologies CategoryThis anthology, the first of this kind in twenty-five years, collects eighteen astounding works of Jewish fiction.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, Isaac Babel, and Lili Berger, reflect both the diversities and the commonalities within Jewish culture, and will make you laugh, cry, and think. This beautiful book is easily accessible and enjoyable not only for Jewish readers, but for story-lovers of all backgrounds.Authors (in the order they appear in the book) include: Elie Wiesel, Varda Fiszbein, S. Y. Agnon, Gábor T. Szántó, Jasminka Domaš, Augusto Segre, Lili Berger, Peter Sichrovsky, Maciej Płaza, Entela Kasi, Norman Manea, Luize Valente, Eliya Karmona, Birte Kont, Michel Fais, Irena Dousková, Mario Levi, and Isaac Babel.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Stories -- Hostage -- The Guest -- And the Crooked Shall Be Made Straight -- The First Christmas -- Purimspiel -- Purchase of Goods of Dubious Origin -- The Rebbetzin’s Sense of Justice -- New York -- Golem -- Frozen Spring—Jerusalem Returning -- Place of Birth: Report on the State of the Union -- Sonata in Auschwitz -- The Washerwoman’s Daughter -- A Place Nowhere -- The Researcher -- Luck -- Where Were You When Darkness Fell -- Red Cavalry -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors