# Yiddish short stories

Author: Goldberg, Isaac, 1887-1938 [Editor]; Haldeman-Julius, E. (Emanuel), 1888-1951 [Editor]

Genre: Jews -- Fiction

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77680

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Yiddish+short+stories+Goldberg&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Of the authors represented in this little collection, Isaac Leib Perez stands foremost in time and in renown. By more than one competent critic he has been found worthy to occupy a distinguished place among the writers of the nineteenth century in any tongue. Mediocre as a dramatist, he rises as a poet and particularly as an artist in prose to moments of unaffected genius. Rarely is his allegory without that humanizing quality which keeps it from degenerating into merely pictorial evasions of thought. If allegory, even in the hands of a Dante, cannot always be kept free from the adulteration of a wilful symbolism, there are times when it represents so successfully the inner intention of t...

## Chapters

- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/yiddish-short-stories-77680/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/yiddish-short-stories-77680/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/yiddish-short-stories-77680/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/yiddish-short-stories-77680/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/yiddish-short-stories-77680/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/yiddish-short-stories-77680/chapters/6/index.md)