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Auteur
Dr. Nora Gold, previously an Associate Professor, is currently the Founder and Editor of the prestigious online literary journal Jewish Fiction .net. She is also the prize-winning author of three books of fiction, as well as the recipient of two Canadian Jewish Book/Literary Awards and praise from Alice Munro. She currently resides in Toronto, Canada.

Texte du rabat

This anthology contains 18 splendid Jewish stories, each translated into English from a different language. These compelling, humorous, and moving stories, written by eminent authors that include Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Isaac Babel, and Lili Berger, reflect both the diversities and the commonalities within Jewish culture, and will make you laugh, cry, and think and are enjoyable for readers of all backgrounds.

Résumé

This anthology, the first of this kind in twenty-five years, collects eighteen astounding works of Jewish fiction.

This is the first anthology of translated multilingual Jewish fiction in 25 years: a collection of 18 splendid stories, each translated into English from a different language: Albanian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Ladino, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, and Yiddish. These compelling, humorous, and moving stories, written by eminent authors that include Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Isaac Babel, and Lili Berger, reflect both the diversities and the commonalities within Jewish culture, and will make you laugh, cry, and think. This beautiful book is easily accessible and enjoyable not only for Jewish readers, but for story-lovers of all backgrounds.

Authors (in the order they appear in the book) include: Elie Wiesel, Varda Fiszbein, S. Y. Agnon, Gábor T. Szántó, Jasminka Domaš, Augusto Segre, Lili Berger, Peter Sichrovsky, Maciej Płaza, Entela Kasi, Norman Manea, Luize Valente, Eliya Karmona, Birte Kont, Michel Fais, Irena Dousková, Mario Levi, and Isaac Babel.

Contenu

Foreword by Josh Lambert                                                                   
Introduction by Nora Gold                                                                                                                            

Hostage
Elie Wiesel        
Translated from French by Catherine Temerson

The Guest
Varda Fiszbein
Translated from Spanish by Andrea G. Labinger

And The Crooked Shall Be Made Straight
S. Y. Agnon
Translated from Hebrew by Michael P. Kramer

The First Christmas
Gábor T. Szántó
Translated from Hungarian by Walter Burgess and Marietta Morry

Purimspiel
Jasminka Domaš
Translated from Croatian by Iskra Pavlović

Purchase of Goods of Dubious Origin
Augusto Segre
Translated from Italian by Steve Siporin

The Rebbetzin's Sense of Justice
Lili Berger
Translated from Yiddish by Ronnee Jaeger

New York
Peter Sichrovsky
Translated from German by John Howard

Golem
Maciej Płaza
Translated from Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones

Frozen Spring—Jerusalem Returning
Entela Kasi
Translated from Albanian by the author with assistance from Sarah Lawson

Place of Birth
Norman Manea
Translated from Romanian by Jean Harris

Sonata in Auschwitz
Luize Valente
Translated from Portuguese by Claudio Bethencourt

The Washerwoman’s Daughter
Eliya Karmona
Translated from Judeo-Spanish by Michael Alpert

A Place Nowhere
Birte Kont
Translated from Danish by Nina Sokol

The Researcher
Michel Fais
Translated from Greek by Mina Karavanta

Luck
Irena Dousková
Translated from Czech by David Livingstone

Where Were You When Darkness Fell
Mario Levi

Translated from Turkish by Leyla Tonguç Basmaci

Red Cavalry
Isaac Babel
Translated from Russian by Boris Dralyuk

Acknowledgments
Contributors
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