A sophisticated, scholarly interpretation of Abramovitsh's Fishke the Lame, Sholem Aleichem's Tevye tales and Peretz's Hasidic stories retains the poetic language and Yiddish literary traditions of th
Frieden (Judaic studies, Syracuse U.) introduces short fiction about East European Jewish life, not widely available in English, by three major 19th century Yiddish writers. Two novellas represent Abr
