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
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
