A Treasury of Yiddish Stories Author:Irving Howe (Editor), Eliezer Greenbert (Editor) The 52 stories brought together in this volume present, for the first time in English, a comprehensive picture of an unusual and vivid literature that is largely unknown to Americans. The stories, grouped according to subject matter, range from the classic works of Sholom Aleichem, Mendele Mocher Sforim, and I. L. Peretz, who founded the Yiddish... more » literary tradition in Eastern Europe in the nineteenth century, to those of the contemporary writer I. Bashevis Singer, whose "Gimpel the Fool" [included here in Saul Bellow's masterful translation] has become a latter-day classic. The editors' long introduction is widely acknowledged as the most important and informative treatment of Yiddish literature available in English. There are biographical notes on the 23 authors represented; a section of anonymous folk material; and a useful glossary.« less