03629cam a22004093u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003701000150007804000110009304100170010405000070012110000320012824500260016026400510018630000470023733600260028433700260031033800360033649000310037250000310040350502100043450801870064452019650083153400650279665300200286165300190288165300560290065300490295670000470300583000310305285600740308385600430315799900190320077680UtSlPG20260610134811.0mcr n260607r20261923utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aca24000893  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aPJ1 aGoldberg, Isaac,d1887-193810aYiddish short stories 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2026  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier1 aLittle blue book ; no. 489  aRelease date is 2026-01-120 aThree gifts, by Isaac Leib Perez -- The judgment, by Joseph Opatoshu -- A tale of a hungry man, by David Pinski -- A strange climate, by Sholom Asch -- A game, by Abraham Raisin -- The kiss, by L. Shapiro.  aTim Miller, Hendrik Kaiber and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)  aYiddish short stories by Isaac Goldberg and E. Haldeman-Julius is a collection of short stories written in the early 20th century. Framed by a critical introduction, the anthology gathers leading Yiddish voices to portray Eastern European Jewish life through allegory, realism, and psychological drama, dwelling on faith, suffering, dignity, and moral choice. The contributors range from I. L. Peretz and David Pinski to Joseph Opatoshu and Sholom Asch, with characters that include a wandering soul, a hungry laborer, and a conflicted provincial doctor.

The opening of the collection begins with Goldberg’s survey of major Yiddish writers—Peretz’s humane allegory, Pinski’s probing of the proletarian psyche, Asch’s poetic realism, Raisin’s delicate miniatures, Shapiro’s stark pogrom tales, and Opatoshu’s nature-rich vision—then turns to the stories themselves. In Peretz’s Three Gifts, a soul whose merits and sins exactly balance must win entry to Heaven by bringing three offerings that embody Jewish courage and piety: Holy Land sand stained by a martyr’s blood, a modesty pin bloodied by a condemned maiden, and a skullcap cherished by a man flogged for his faith. Opatoshu’s The Judgment follows river child Zelik and his friend Rachel amid storks and folklore on the Vistula; a prank of swapping a stork’s egg for a goose egg leads to a brutal flock “trial,” and a sudden storm sweeps Rachel away as Zelik barely survives. Pinski’s A Tale of a Hungry Man traces Itsye’s starvation into fury, petty violence, theft from his deaf landlady, a clash with a gendarme, and, after a beating and a cell, a despairing suicide. Asch’s A Strange Climate opens on Dr. Lazarovitch’s estrangement after his son converts to enter university; the household grows tense as he gropes toward Jewish practice and the hope of Palestine while worrying over his younger son’s fragility. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  pOriginally published:cGirard: Haldeman-Julius Company, 1923  aJews -- Fiction  aJewish fiction  aShort stories, Yiddish -- Translations into English  aYiddish fiction -- Translations into English1 aHaldeman-Julius, E.q(Emanuel),d1888-1951 0aLittle blue book ; no. 4894 uhttps://archive.org/details/yiddishshortstor00unse_2/page/n1/mode/2up40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77680  c118400d118400