The I. L. Peretz Reader
by I. L. Peretz; Edited and with an introduction by Ruth WisseFormat: Trade Paper
Pub. Date: 2002-07-11
Publisher(s): Yale University Press
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Summary
Isaae Leybush Peretz (1852 1915) is one of the most influential figures of modern Jewish culture. Born in Poland and dedicated to Yiddish culture, he recognized that Jews needed to adapt to their times while preserving their cultural heritage, and his captivating and beautiful writings explore the complevities inherent in the struggle between tradition and the desire for progress. This book, which presents a memoir, poem, travelogue, and twenty-six stories by Peretz, also provides a detailed essay about Peretz's life by Ruth R. Wisse. This edition of the book includes as well Peretz's great visionary drama 1 Vight in the Old Marketplace, in a rhymed, performable translation by Hillel Halkin. Book jacket.
Author Biography
Ruth R. Wisse is professor of Yiddish Literature and of Comparative Literature at Harvard University
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | p. xi |
| Introduction | p. xiii |
| Monish | |
| Impressions of a Journey Through the Tomaszow Region | p. 17 |
| Short Stories | |
| Venus and Shulamith | p. 88 |
| What Is the Soul? | p. 93 |
| In the Mail Coach | p. 104 |
| Bryna's Mendl | p. 118 |
| A Musician's Death | p. 125 |
| The Pious Cat | p. 128 |
| The Golem | p. 130 |
| The Shabbes Goy | p. 131 |
| The Poor Boy | p. 138 |
| Bontshe Shvays | p. 146 |
| Kabbalists | p. 152 |
| A Contribution for a Wedding | p. 156 |
| The Dead Town | p. 162 |
| Uncle Shakhne and Aunt Yakhne | p. 171 |
| If Not Higher | p. 178 |
| A Conversation | p. 181 |
| Between Two Mountains | p. 184 |
| The Missing Melody | p. 196 |
| Stories | p. 200 |
| Revelation, or, The Story of the Billy Goat | p. 212 |
| The Magician | p. 218 |
| Three Gifts | p. 222 |
| Downcast Eyes | p. 230 |
| A Chapter of the Psalms | p. 242 |
| A Pinch of Snuff | p. 251 |
| Yom Kippur in Hell | p. 258 |
| My Memoirs | p. 263 |
| A Night in the Old Marketplace | p. 361 |
| Afterword | p. 433 |
| Notes | p. 441 |
| Glossary | p. 457 |
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