The Oxford book of Jewish stories
edited and with an introduction by Ilan Stavans
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
ISBN: 0195110196
DDC: 808.831088924
LCC: PN6120.95
Notes:
Includes index.
The rabbi's son / Rabbi Nakhman of Bratzlav -- The calf / Sholem
Jacob Abramovitsh -- If not higher . . . / Isaac Leib Peretz -- A Yom
Kippur scandal / Sholem Aleichem -- The mother / Italo Svevo -- Tug
of love / Israel Zangwill -- The kiss / Lamed Shapiro -- America and
I / Anzia Yezierska -- Holy Land / Ludwig Lewisohn -- Before the law
/ Franz Kafka -- At night / David Bergelson -- The fool and the
forest demon / Der Nister -- Camacho's wedding feast / Alberto
Gerchunoff -- A whole loaf / Shmuel Yosef Agnon -- The street of
crocodiles / Bruno Schulz -- The story of my dovecot / Isaac Babel --
The Spinoza of Market Street / Isaac Bashevis Singer -- The sacrifice
of the prisoner / Elias Canetti -- Prophet in our midst: a story for
Passover / A. M. Klein -- In dreams begin responsibilities / Delmore
Schwartz -- Angel Levine / Bernard Malamud -- Looking for Mr. Green /
Saul Bellow -- House at the sea / Natalia Ginzburg -- The hand that
fed me / Isaac Rosenfeld -- The mirror maker / Primo Levi -- The key
game / Ida Fink -- Midrash on happiness / Grace Paley -- Letter from
his father / Nadine Gordimer -- Family ties / Clarice Lispector --
The shawl / Cynthia Ozick -- The true waiting / Elie Wiesel -- The
Zulu and the Zeide / Dan Jacobson -- Criers and kibitzers, kibitzers
and criers / Stanley Elkin -- Playing ball on Hampstead Heath /
Mordecai Richler -- Bertha / Aharon Appelfeld -- The conversion of
the Jews / Philip Roth -- Dogs and books / Danilo Kis -- The Yatir
evening express / A. B. Yehoshua -- In the name of His Name /
Angelina Muniz-Huberman -- The ballad of the false Messiah / Moacyr
Scliar -- Nomad and viper / Amos Oz -- The conversion / Isaac
Goldemberg -- Useful ceremonies / Francine Prose -- Lazar Malkin
enters heaven / Steve Stern -- The legacy of Raizel Kaidish: a story
/ Rebecca Goldstein.
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