The I.L. Peretz Reader (New Yiddish Library)

461 pp. CONTENTS: Acknowledgments; Introduction; Monish; Impressions of a Journey Through the Tomaszow Region; SHORT STORIES: Venus and Shulamith; What Is the Soul?; In the Mail Coach; Bryna's Mendl; A Musician's Death; The Pious Cat; The Golem; The Shabbes Goy; The Poor Boy; Bontshe Shvayg; Kabbalists; A Contribution for a Wedding; The Dead Town; Uncle Shakhne and Aunt Yakhne; If Not Higher; A Conversation; Between Two Mountains; The Missing Melody; Stories; Revelation; or, The Story of the Billy Goat; The Magician; Three Gifts; Downcast Eyes; A Chapter of the Psalms; A Pinch of Snuff; Yom Kippur in Hell; My Memoirs; Notes; Glossary.