From a distant relation

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"These little-known Yiddish stories by Mikhah Yosef Berdichevsky, one of the greatest Jewish writers and public intellectuals of his time, paint the East European Jewish town in a dark light with flashes of desire, humor, and faith"--

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Full title :From a distant relation / Mikhah Yosef Berdichevsky ; edited and translated from the Yiddish by James Adam Redfield ; with a foreword by Avner Holtzman.

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Publication Date:©2021
Edition:First edition

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Publisher(s):Syracuse University Press
Place of Publication:Syracuse, New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2021

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Description:1 online resource

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780815655404, 0815655401
DOI:10.2307/j.ctv1c7zg62
oclc:on1256591707
LC Classification:PJ5129.B563
Dewey Decimal:839/.1

Machine generated contents note: Hasidic Tales -- Gadi -- Weasel and the Pit -- Fife -- Between the Four Poles -- As It So Happens -- Nest Egg -- Visitors -- Just Cover My Costs -- Itsikl -- Author -- When the Lord Shall -- Bring Thee -- In a Hoarse Voice -- Country Jew -- Sarah -- Aging -- From the Heart -- All I've Been Through -- Dream -- Only Son -- Broken String -- Cantor -- Tainted -- Sketches -- Yankef-Nusn -- That's What They Say -- Rivn Pesyes -- Liar -- Leybish-Meyer -- Big Cheese -- Into the Great Wide World -- Conversations -- In Jest and in Earnest -- Trouble in Paradise -- Matchmakers -- Thy Brother's Keeper -- Pleas -- New Men -- How Ben Nathansohn Got His Start -- Back from the Service -- What It Means to Serve -- Real Monster -- Mothers and Sons -- Dvoyre; Or, The Elegy -- Children -- Strange Boy -- Off to Odessa -- Right at Home -- Mother and Daughter -- To the Son-in-Law -- To the Daughter-in-Law -- Fathers and Sons -- Guest -- Quarrels -- On Borrowed Time -- Mourner -- How We Live Now -- Full of Surprises -- Patrimony -- Luck -- Husbands and Wives -- Smith -- All Mixed Up -- Well Taken Care Of -- Agine -- You Never Can Tell -- Modern Times -- Test -- This New G…