Red cavalry / Isaac Babel. The guest / Varda Fiszbein -- And the crooked shall be made straight / S.Y. 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 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.
Summary:
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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