Shining And Shadow An Anthology of Early Yiddish Stories from the Lower East Side

by Waldinger, Albert

• ISBN13: 9781575911076
• ISBN10: 1575911078
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-05-01
• Publisher: Susquehanna University Press

Table of Contents

Introduction	9	(16)
Notes	25	(2)
Bibliography	27	(8)
Stories by Yankev Gordin
Yankele's Dream	35	(2)
Spirited Away	37	(2)
I'm Going on Strike	39	(2)
A Prayer to the Provider	41	(2)
A Jew's Anthem	43	(3)
Door Number 279	46	(2)
What Will People Say? (A Family Drama)	48	(2)
Missus, Your Soup is Cold	50	(5)
Stories by Zalmen Libin
Little Albert's Nightmare Experience	55	(1)
Mister Buchholtz	56	(7)
All Because of a Needle	63	(2)
Dozing on Doomsday	65	(3)
Barnett's Citizenship	68	(2)
A Yiddish-Speaking Socialist	70	(4)
Two Shrines	74	(3)
A Refurbished Play	77	(3)
The Impure Street	80	(3)
By Dint of a Kiss	83	(3)
They're Digging Their Graves	86	(5)
Stories by Leon Kobrin
The Freed Children of the Shtetl	91	(2)
America, You S.O.B	93	(4)
The Calamity of Mottel Hannah-Beyle's	97	(5)
What He Saw at the Yiddish Theater	102	(4)
Door Number One	106	(23)
Stories by Dovid Pinsky
``Our'' First of May	129	(2)
At the Attorney's	131	(4)
Dead-Tired	135	(6)
Stories by Avrom Reisen
When Does Mame Eat?	141	(5)
The Two Mothers	146	(3)
Over the Child	149	(1)
The Barber's Bride	150	(4)
They're Afraid	154	(3)
The Experienced Bride	157	(3)
The Nationalist and the American Girl	160	(3)
Mother Goes to the Library	163	(2)
``A Couple of Words''	165	(3)
Brother and Beau	168	(3)
A Shopgirl	171	(2)
In Disguise (Dedicated to Moyshe Nadir)	173	(6)
He Laughed	179	(2)
In a Yiddish Cabaret	181	(3)
His Trip to America	184	(2)
Irrelevance	186	(2)
Show Windows	188	(3)
The Holy Pair	191	(6)
Stories by Zvulen Levin
A Hush	197	(4)
``Mame''	201	(5)
The Country Girl	206	(12)
Two Girls and One Suitor	218	(2)
Grammar	220	(4)
Flochne	224	(7)
The Humorist	231	(2)
Honorarium	233	(11)
The Thought	244	(7)
Stories by Sholem Ash
Children	251	(3)
On the Bank of an Alien Stream	254	(4)
A Surrendered Home	258	(4)
A Mannequin	262	(3)
The Magnetic Boarder	265	(5)
Leybel Is Dead---Leybel Lives	270	(7)
Stories by Yoysef Opatoshu
A House on Gorek Street	277	(4)
Morris and His Son Philip	281	(14)
The Evil Urge	295	(2)
The Saloon Keeper's Girl	297	(4)
Old Age	301	(4)
Saloon---Night	305	(4)
Moyshe Liar	309	(4)
In the Saloon	313	(4)
On the Other Side of the Bridge	317