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Stories & Pictures
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Isaac L. Perez, Helena Frank (Translator)
To fully understand these Yiddish tales, we should need to known intimately the life of the Russian Jews who figure in their pages, and to be familiar with the lore of the Talmud and the Kabbalah, which colors their talk as the superstitions of Slav or Celtic lands color the talk of their respective peasants. A Yiddish writer once feared these ...
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Yiddish Tales
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Helena Frank
These 48 tales collected from magazines & papers are full of wit & humor, clever thinking, weighty traditions, struggle & sadness: a full spectrum of the Jewish Ghetto life from which they sprang in Russia, Poland, Lithuania, Bessarabia, & America. First published by The Jewish Publication Society in 1912, these works are from 20 authors, ...
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