TY  - BOOK
AU  - Agnon,Shmuel Yosef
AU  - Babel,Isaac
AU  - Berger,Lily
AU  - Domaš,Jasminka
AU  - Dousková,Irena
AU  - Fais,Michel
AU  - Fiszbein,Varda
AU  - Gold,Nora
AU  - Karmona,Eliya Rafael
AU  - Kasi,Entela
AU  - Kont,Birte
AU  - Lambert,Josh
AU  - Levi,Mario
AU  - Manea,Norman
AU  - Płaza,Maciej
AU  - Segre,Augusto
AU  - Sichrovsky,Peter
AU  - Szántó,Gábor T.
AU  - Valente,Luize
AU  - Wiesel,Elie
TI  - 18: Jewish Stories Translated from 18 Languages 
SN  - 9798887192079
AV  - PN6120.95.J6 
U1  - 808.83/1088924 23/eng/20230522
PY  - 2023///]
CY  - Boston, MA
PB  - Academic Studies Press
KW  - Short stories, Jewish
KW  - Translations into English
KW  - DLC
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Jewish literature, fiction, diaspora, anthology, translations, Elie Wiesel, Isaac Babel, Lili Berger
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Foreword --; Introduction --; Stories --; Hostage --; The Guest --; And the Crooked Shall Be Made Straight --; The First Christmas --; Purimspiel --; Purchase of Goods of Dubious Origin --; The Rebbetzin’s Sense of Justice --; New York --; Golem --; Frozen Spring—Jerusalem Returning --; Place of Birth: Report on the State of the Union --; Sonata in Auschwitz --; The Washerwoman’s Daughter --; A Place Nowhere --; The Researcher --; Luck --; Where Were You When Darkness Fell --; Red Cavalry --; Acknowledgments --; Contributors; restricted access
N2  - A 2023 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Finalist in the Anthologies CategoryThis 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9798887192079
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9798887192079
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9798887192079/original
ER  -