Yiddish Literature (translated)

Jewish Children 

by Sholem Aleichem

Yiddish Tales

by Helena Frank

CONTENTS

Preface	5
Acknowledgment	8
Reuben Asher Braubes
The Misfortune	13
Jehalel (Judah Löb Lewin)
Earth of Palestine	29
Isaac Löb Perez
A Woman's Wrath	55
The Treasure	62
It Is Well	67
Whence a Proverb	73
Mordecai Spektor
An Original Strike	83
A Gloomy Wedding	91
Poverty	107
Sholom-Alechem (Shalom Rabinovitz)
The Clock	115
Fishel the Teacher	125
An Easy Fast	143
The Passover Guest	153
Gymnasiye	162
Eliezer David Rosenthal
Sabbath	183
Yom Kippur	189
Isaiah Lerner
Bertzi Wasserführer	211
Ezrielk the Scribe	219
Yitzchok-Yossel Broitgeber	236
Judah Steinberg
A Livelihood	251
At the Matzes	259
David Frischmann
Three Who Ate	269
Micha Joseph Berdyczewski
Military Service	281
Isaiah Berschadski
Forlorn and Forsaken	295
Tashrak (Israel Joseph Zevin)
The Hole in a Beigel	309
As the Years Roll On	312
David Pinski
Reb Shloimeh	319
S. Libin (Israel Hubewitz)
A Picnic	357
Manasseh	366
Yohrzeit for Mother	371
Slack Times They Sleep	377
Abraham Raisin
Shut In	385
The Charitable Loan	389
The Two Brothers	397
Lost His Voice	405
Late	415
The Kaddish	421
Avròhom the Orchard-Keeper	427
Hirsh David Naumberg
The Rav and the Rav's Son	435
Meyer Blinkin
Women	449
Löb Schapiro
If It Was a Dream	481
Shalom Asch
A Simple Story	493
A Jewish Child	506
A Scholar's Mother	514
The Sinner	529
Isaac Dob Berkowitz
Country Folk	543
The Last of Them	566
A Folk Tale
The Clever Rabbi	581
Glossary and Notes	589

STORIES AND PICTURES

BY

ISAAC LOEB PEREZ

CONTENTS
PAGE
	PREFACE	5
I.	IF NOT HIGHER	13
II.	DOMESTIC HAPPINESS	21
III.	IN THE POST-CHAISE	29
IV.	THE NEW TUNE	53
V.	MARRIED	59
VI.	THE SEVENTH CANDLE OF BLESSING	89
VII.	THE WIDOW	95
VIII.	THE MESSENGER	101
IX.	WHAT IS THE SOUL?	117
X.	IN TIME OF PESTILENCE	135
XI.	BONTZYE SHWEIG	171
XII.	THE DEAD TOWN	185
XIII.	THE DAYS OF THE MESSIAH	201
XIV.	KABBALISTS	213
XV.	TRAVEL-PICTURES
	PREFACE	223
	TRUST	224
	ONLY GO!	226
	WHAT SHOULD A JEWESS NEED?	229
	NO. 42	231
	THE MASKIL	237
	THE RABBI OF TISHEWITZ	241
	TALES THAT ARE TOLD	245
	A LITTLE BOY	256
	THE YARTSEFF RABBI	259
	LYASHTZOF	265
	THE FIRST ATTEMPT	266
	THE SECOND ATTEMPT	271
	AT THE SHOCHET'S	272
	THE REBBITZIN OF SKUL	276
	INSURED	280
	THE FIRE	284
	THE EMIGRANT	289
	THE MADMAN	291
	MISERY	294
	THE LÀMED WÒFNIK	295
	THE INFORMER	299
XVI.	THE OUTCAST	307
XVII.	A CHAT	313
XVIII.	THE PIKE	321
XIX.	THE FAST	329
XX.	THE WOMAN MISTRESS HANNAH	337
XXI.	IN THE POND	385
XXII.	THE CHANUKAH LIGHT	391
XXIII.	THE POOR LITTLE BOY	401
XXIV.	UNDERGROUND	417
XXV.	BETWEEN TWO MOUNTAINS	429
XXVI.	THE IMAGE	449
	GLOSSARY	453