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Yiddish Folktales (The Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library)
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Yiddish Folktales (The Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library) Paperback - 1997 - 1st Edition

by Weinreich, Beatrice

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In the 1920s and 1930s, the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research sent young ethnographers out into the small towns and villages of eastern Europe to collect the stories of their people. Here, published for the first time, is the groundbreaking collection. Illustrated.

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  • Title Yiddish Folktales (The Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library)
  • Author Weinreich, Beatrice
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition New
  • Pages 448
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Schocken Books Inc, New York, New York
  • Date 1997-09-23
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Glossary, Illustrated
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 531ZZZ00F87J_ns
  • ISBN 9780805210903 / 0805210903
  • Weight 1.37 lbs (0.62 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.17 x 6.14 x 1.23 in (23.29 x 15.60 x 3.12 cm)
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
    • Religious Orientation: Jewish
  • Library of Congress subjects Jews - Europe, Eastern - Folklore, Folk literature, Yiddish - Translations into
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 97223938
  • Dewey Decimal Code 398.208

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From the publisher

Beatrice Silverman Weinreich is a research associate at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in New York and co-editor of the journal Yiddish Folklore.

From the jacket flap

Nearly 200 tales in this collection of Jewish folklore reveal the rich culture and tradition of Eastern European Jewry.

Media reviews

"As host of the National Public Radio series Jewish Short Stories from Eastern Europe and Beyond, I had the opportunity to rediscover the joys of Yiddish literature. Many of the translations that we used were taken from Schocken's excellent Library of Yiddish Classics--a series that brings together a body of work that is very much alive and continues to dazzle us with its brilliance, wit, and humanity."
--Leonard Nimoy

"Filled with homey Eastern European Yiddish truths refracted through the colorful prism of fantasy and fancy, Yiddish Folktales evokes the vitality of a distant yet immediate realm, and thus re-creates it."
--The New York Times Book Review

"This gem of a collections open a breathtaking vista upon a vibrant world now lost to us."
--Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, New York University

About the author

Editor BEATRICE SILVERMAN WEINREICH (1928-2008) was for many years a research associate at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in New York and coeditor of the journal Yiidisher Folklor. She published many articles in academic journals on Yiddish culture and folklore.

Translator LEONARD WOLF is the author of the novels The Glass Mountain and The False Messiah, and of Bluebeard: The Life and Crimes of Gilles de Rais. Among his translations from Yiddish are The Certificate by Isaac Bashevis Singer and The Family Mashber by Der Nister.