ISBN:
0815606699
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9780815606697
Language:
English
Pages:
xxix, 243 Seiten
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Illustrationen
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24 cm
Edition:
First Syracuse University Press edition
Year of publication:
2001
Series Statement:
Judaic traditions in literature, music, and art
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als New country. Selections New country
DDC:
839/.1301083273
Keywords:
Short stories, Yiddish Translations into English
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Jews Fiction
;
Immigrants Fiction
;
Immigrants
;
Jews
;
Short stories, Yiddish
;
Short stories, Yiddish ; Translations into English
;
Jews ; United States ; Fiction
;
Fiction
;
Translations
;
Jewish fiction
;
United States
;
Jewish fiction
;
Short stories, Yiddish Translations into English
Abstract:
Getting settled.The tenement house (by way of a backdrop) /Leon Kobrin --Alone in a strange world /Sholem Asch --On the streets of New York /Sholem Aleichem --A wall /Zalmon Libin --Imprisoned /Isaac Raboy --His trip to America /Abraham Raisin --We strike /Sholem Aleichem --The greenhorns /Chaver Paver.
Abstract:
Making a living.Chaim becomes a real-estatenik /Tashrak --Chaim and Chaye /Zalmon Libin --We work in a shop /Sholem Aleichem --Point of a needle /Zalmon Libin --Chaim thanks God for deliverance /Tashrak --The quiet jubilee /Zalmon Libin --Reb Yankele Pickpocket /Chone Gottesfeld.
Abstract:
And what of the children?Yossele /Sholem Asch --A sign of summer /Zalmon Libin --The American Europeans /Abraham Raisin --House on Goerick Street /Joseph Opatoshu --The father (a monologue) /Abraham Raisin --Kaddish /Aaron Maizel --Madame Marquis /Joseph Opatoshu --Smicha and Sammy /Chone Gottesfeld.
Abstract:
There's laughter, too.Why the Taracans are my enemies /Zalmon Libin --Chaim does his duty as a citizen /Tashrak --First row balcony /Abraham Raisin --I--as echo /Moishe Nadir --Moishe "liar" /Joseph Opatoshu --A eulogist /Chone Gottesfeld --Chaim buys a piano for his daughter /Tashrak.
Abstract:
Not lost in the crowd.Story about a greenhorn /Sholem Aleichem --She reads the world /Abraham Raisin --Moishe the poet /Chaver Paver --His brother's check /Abraham Raisin --The dog /Sheen Miller.
Abstract:
Not all greenhorns are Jewish!Quiet words /Borech Glassman --Race /Joseph Opatoshu --Everything under control /Jacob Gordin --In a drugstore /B. Applebaum --A heart divided /Peretz Hirschbein --My Indian mother /Sheen Daixel.
Note:
"A Dora Teitelboim Center for Yiddish Culture publication."
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"This edition is an abridged version of The new country ... originally published in 1961 by YKUF Publishers, New York"--Title page verso
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