No Star Too Beautiful: Yiddish Stories from 1382 to the PresentJoachim Neugroschel W. W. Norton & Company, 2002 - 710 sider First developed and written in medieval Germany, Yiddish eventually became the everyday speech of Jews all over Europe and later globally. Yiddish was a hybrid language crafted from German, mixed with Hebrew, Judeo-Aramaic, and blended with Italian and French as well as the Slavic languages. It gave rise to a literature that reflected not only Jewish life but also the culture of the lands in which the Jews lived. A descriptive and flavorful language, it was used for genres as diverse as religious tales, fables, humor, social realism, surrealism, and the literary experiments of modern times. No Star Too Beautiful is a bountiful anthology that brings together the masterpieces of this now-vanishing tongue. Joachim Neugroschel has chosen stories emblematic of the people and their times, and this volume chronicles both the literary tradition and the history of the people who created it. Indeed, the collection contains the first English translation of medieval Yiddish fiction. Many of the early tales like "Virtuous Joseph" and "Abraham's Childhood" had Biblical roots. But there were also the fables of Moshe Vallikh and such wonder-filled folk tales as "The Princess and the Seven Geese." In the later periods, the stories reflect the varying currents of thought within the Jewish community as well as echoing the changes in Europe. Comic or tragic, Yiddish literature underwent a flowering of writers: Mendele Moykher-Sforim, Yitsik Leybesh Peretz, S. Ansky, Sholem Asch, Y.Y. and Isaac Bashevis Singer, and many others. Compiling and newly translating almost all the stories, Neugroschel has created a seamless effect rarely approached in a work filled with so many voices. This astounding anthology is a lasting gift for generations. |
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Virtuous Joseph 1382 | 6 |
Bovo of Altona Chapters 13 1507 publ 1541 | 19 |
The Peasant and the Scribe | 33 |
Noah and the Flood | 48 |
House of the Sun from The Book of Miracles 1696 No 2 | 64 |
the Pious Jew from Memoirs 16911719 | 71 |
PART TWO HASIDISM AND ANTIHASIDISM | 97 |
Stories about the Tsadiks | 105 |
From The Golem | 489 |
The Encounter 1920 | 495 |
From a Letter from Barrack and War 1927 | 506 |
Hear O Israel 1926 | 512 |
He 1918 | 527 |
Apartment No Four 1914 | 534 |
The Woman in Chains Chapters 12 1919 | 540 |
The Story of Beautiful Marie 1921 | 546 |
Parables | 114 |
A Tale of a Kings Son | 121 |
Fables early 19th century | 153 |
The Hasidic Boy Chapters 14 1867 | 175 |
The Little Man or The Life Story | 189 |
From The Jewish Muzhik 1894 | 238 |
The Crisis Chapters 13 1905 | 250 |
Mendel the Turk 1892 | 313 |
Seventyfive Thousand A Pack of Tsoris 1902 | 357 |
How Long Does a Pogrom Last? 1911 394 | 394 |
The Cross 1909 | 402 |
Two Roads 1922 | 416 |
In the Madhouse 1893 | 443 |
The Archbishop 1919 | 462 |
In the Mountains 1922 | 470 |
Magda 1917 | 553 |
The Jew Who Destroyed the Temple 1917 | 563 |
Beheaded 1922 | 570 |
Canary 1922 | 583 |
The Open Grave 1937 | 596 |
Zelmenyaners Book I 1931 | 607 |
The Aunt from Norfolk | 620 |
The End of the Road 1957 | 633 |
Zubak 1967 | 641 |
Dog Blood | 656 |
The Dybbuk 1931 | 666 |
The Empire | 679 |
Bociany Chapter 1 2000 | 692 |
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No Star Too Beautiful: Yiddish Stories from 1382 to the Present Joachim Neugroschel Ingen forhåndsvisning - 2002 |
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