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| Introduction: Yiddish-The Longest Journey | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| The Old Yiddish Period: 1382 to the Mid-Eighteenth Century | |
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| Virtuous Joseph (1382) | |
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| Debate Between Wine and Water (1517) | |
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| The War of the Holy Days (1517) | |
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| A Tale of Mainz-The Two Half Brothers (ca. ?1520) | |
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| Bovo of Altona, Chapters 1-3 (1507; publ. 1541) | |
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| Abraham's Childhood (1584-86) | |
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| The Peasant and the Scribe, from The Book of Cows (1595) | |
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| Jacob ben Abraham of Mezritch: Six Tales from The Mayse Book (1602) | |
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| Yakov ben Yitskhok Ashkenazi: Noah and the Flood, from Tsene-Rene (?1608-22) | |
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| Two Spells from Medical Manuals (?16th-17th century) | |
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| The West Indian Tale (ca. 1665) | |
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| Yiftakh Yospe ben Naftali ha-Levi: The Queen of Sheba in the House of the Sun, from The Book of Miracles (1696), No. 2 | |
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| Two Fables from The Book of Fables (1697) | |
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| Glikl bas Yuda Leib (a.k.a. Glikl of Hamelin): The Tale of the Pious Jew, from Memoirs (1691-1719) | |
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| The Princess and the Seven Geese (1714-22) | |
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| Five Stories about Till Eulenspiegel (1735) | |
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| Hasidism and Anti-Hasidism, Mysticism and Moralism: Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century | |
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| Dov Ber ben Shmuel of Linets: From In Praise of the Baal-Shem-Tov (1815) | |
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| Stories about the Tsadiks | |
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| The Dubno Preacher: Parables | |
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| Rabbi Nakhman of Braslev: A Tale of a King's Son Who Was Switched at Birth ..., from Tales (1815) | |
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| The Haskala (Jewish Enlightenment): Nineteenth Century | |
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| Selections from The Revealer of Secrets (1819) | |
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| Fables (early 19th century) | |
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| The Panic, or The Town of Herres (1868) | |
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| The Hasidic Boy, Chapters 1-4 (1867) | |
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| The Little Man, or The Life Story of Yitsik-Avrom, the Power Broker (1864-66) | |
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| Shem and Japheth on a Train (1890) | |
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| From The Jewish Muzhik (1894) | |
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| The Crisis, Chapters 1-3 (1905) | |
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| Modernism: Nineteenth Century to the Present | |
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| On the Stagecoach (1891) | |
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| Cabalists (1891) | |
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| Stories (1903) | |
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| Hear, O Israel, or The Bassist (1920) | |
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| Mendel the Turk (1892) | |
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| The Starveling (1892) | |
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| Anonymous Folktales, from The Destruction of Galicia (1920) | |
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| Seventy-five Thousand (A Pack of Tsoris) (1902) | |
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| How Long Does a Pogrom Last? (1911) | |
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| The Cross (1909) | |
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| Two Roads (1922) | |
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| Without a Name (1922) | |
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| The Deaf Man (1906) | |
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| In the Madhouse (1893) | |
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| A Father and His Sons (1911) | |
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| The Archbishop (1919) | |
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| In the Mountains (1922) | |
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| From The Golem, or The Miraculous Deeds of Rabbi Liva (1904) | |
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| The Encounter (1920) | |
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| A Wounded Man (1923) | |
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| From a Letter, from Barrack and War (1927) | |
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| Hear, O Israel (1926) | |
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| A Legend (1920) | |
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| He (1918) | |
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| Apartment No. Four (1914) | |
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| The Woman in Chains, Chapters 1-2 (1919) | |
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| The Story of Beautiful Marie (1921) | |
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| Magda (1917) | |
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| The Jew Who Destroyed the Temple (1917) | |
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| The First Photograph (1920) | |
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| Beheaded (1922) | |
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| Canary (1922) | |
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| Miss Bertha (1924) | |
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| The Open Grave (1937) | |
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| What Became of the Fools of Khelm?, from The Fools of Khelm (1930) | |
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| Zelmenyaners, Book I (1931) | |
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| The Aunt from Norfolk, from Shadows on the Sun (1938) | |
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| She's Found an Audience, from Trunks and Branches (1954) | |
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| The End of the Road (1957) | |
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| Zubak (1967) | |
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| Dog Blood, from Gebentshte Hent (Blessed Hands) (1963) | |
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| A Roman Philosopher Writes a Letter (1958) | |
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| The Dybbuk (1931) | |
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| The Mirror, from Gimpel the Fool (1957) | |
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| The Empire of Kalman the Cripple, Chapters 1-2 (1997) | |
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| Bociany, Chapter 1 (2000) | |
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