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A Shtetl and other Yiddish novellas

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Title A Shtetl and other Yiddish novellas / edited, with introductions and notes, by Ruth R. Wisse.
Publisher Detroit : Wayne State University Press
Creation Date 1986
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references.
English
Content Introduction -- A shtetl / I.M. Weissenberg -- At the depot / David Bergelson -- Romance of a horse thief / Joseph Opatoshu -- Behind a mask / S. Ansky -- Of bygone days / Mendele Mocher Sforim.
Extent 1 online resource (xi, 359 pages)
Language English
National Library system number 997010712902905171
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