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Showcases a brilliant and nearly forgotten voice in Yiddish letters. An insistently original writer whose abrupt departure from the literary scene is the stuff of legend, Fradl Shtok composed stories that describe the travails of young women looking for love and desire in a world that spurns them.

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“Finkin and Schachter offer a long-overdue reevaluation of Shtok’s prose writing, analyzing the stories clearly while leaving much for readers to discern for themselves . . . a welcome addition to the (slowly) growing corpus of Yiddish women’s prose in English translation.” —Anita Norich, author of Writing in Tongues: Translating Yiddish in the Twentieth Century

Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Translators' Note
  • European Stories
  • The First Train
  • The Daredevil
  • In the Village
  • By the Mill
  • A Glass
  • The Veil
  • Hinde Gitel's Daughter-in-Law
  • The Archbishop
  • Friedrich Schiller
  • Viburnum
  • Almonds
  • The Pear Tree
  • Shorn Hair
  • Wine
  • White Furs
  • Cholera
  • A Spa
  • American Stories
  • A Cut
  • The First Patient
  • A Dance
  • A Speech
  • Sisters
  • The Final Story
  • A Fur Salesman

From the Jewish Provinces

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    A Paperback by Fradl Shtok, Allison Schachter, Jordan D. Finkin

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      Publisher: Northwestern University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 11/30/2021 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780810144392, 978-0810144392
      ISBN10: 0810144395
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Showcases a brilliant and nearly forgotten voice in Yiddish letters. An insistently original writer whose abrupt departure from the literary scene is the stuff of legend, Fradl Shtok composed stories that describe the travails of young women looking for love and desire in a world that spurns them.

      Trade Review
      “Finkin and Schachter offer a long-overdue reevaluation of Shtok’s prose writing, analyzing the stories clearly while leaving much for readers to discern for themselves . . . a welcome addition to the (slowly) growing corpus of Yiddish women’s prose in English translation.” —Anita Norich, author of Writing in Tongues: Translating Yiddish in the Twentieth Century

      Table of Contents
      • Acknowledgements
      • Introduction
      • Translators' Note
      • European Stories
      • The First Train
      • The Daredevil
      • In the Village
      • By the Mill
      • A Glass
      • The Veil
      • Hinde Gitel's Daughter-in-Law
      • The Archbishop
      • Friedrich Schiller
      • Viburnum
      • Almonds
      • The Pear Tree
      • Shorn Hair
      • Wine
      • White Furs
      • Cholera
      • A Spa
      • American Stories
      • A Cut
      • The First Patient
      • A Dance
      • A Speech
      • Sisters
      • The Final Story
      • A Fur Salesman

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