The great stories of twenty-five centuries Schwarz, Leo W. (Leo Walder) 1906-1967 text bibliography Jewish fiction. Fiction. nyu New York Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1965 Rev. and enl. monographic eng

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xiii, 829 pages ; 24 cm "Biographical notes": pages 815-829. I. The making of a people. Beginnings. Joseph (Genesis); The rise of Moses (Exodus) ; The tragedy of Samson (Judges) ; Ruth and Boaz (Ruth) ; King David (Samuel) ; Ahab and the prophets (Kings) ; Jeremiah and the fall of Jerusalem (Jeremiah) -- The alien world. Jonah is taught a lesson (Jonah) ; Nehemiah rebuilds the temple (Nehemiah) ; The wisdom of Daniel (Daniel) ; Susanna and the elders (Apocrypha) ; The secret entrance (Apocrypha) ; Judith and Holofernes (Apocrypha) ; Courage (Apocrypha) ; The letter of Aristeas (Apocrypha) ; Self-portrait / Flavius Josephus ; Paul preaches in the diaspora (New Testament) -- Torah : law and legend. The Lord helpeth man and beast (Agada) ; A good wife (Agada) ; Of love and faith (Agada) ; Elisha Ben Abuya, sceptic (Agada) ; The anatomy of leadership (Agada) ; Seek peace! (Agada) ; Hadrian and the aged planter (Agada) ; The noble physician (Agada) ; Charity (Agada) ; Philosopher and rabbi (Agada) ; The fall of Jerusalem (Agada) ; Rabbi Joshua and the princess (Agada) ; The reward of wisdom (Agada) ; The kiss of God / Edmond Fleg ; Of study and prayer / Micha Joseph Berdyczevski ; The legend of three and of four / Hayyim Nahman Bialik ; The third leg / Martin Buber ; Boaz makes up his mind / Irving Fineman. II. Under the crescent and the cross. Medieval times. The lost tribes of Israel / Eldad the Danite ; A Jewish Kingdom / Hasdai ibn Shaprut ; Rabbi paltiel / Ahimaaz ben Paltiel ; The clever judge / Joseph ben Meir Zabara ; The four captives / Abraham ibn Daud ; A medieval Jezebel ; Rashi and the Duke of Lorraine ; A trip to heaven / Immanuel ben Solomon Romi ; My journey, from beginning to end / Obadiah Yareh da Bertinoro ;The Testament of a martyr / K. Arthur Abraham ; Visit to the pope / David Reubeni ; The awesome story of Rabbi Joseph De La Reina / Anonymous -- Ghetto lights and shadows. Murder in the ghetto / Gl�uckel of Hameln ; My grandfather / Solomon Maimon ; Three who ate / David Frishman ; Waxened ears / Max Brod ; Adventures in Shiraz and Ispahan / J.J. Benjamin II ; Shut in / Abraham Reisen ; The wise men of Helm ; Two saviors / Karl Emil Franzos ; A fair, and Jewish marriages / Mendele Mocher Seforim ; The sinner / Sholom Asch ; Bontche Shweig / Isaac Loeb Peretz ; Another page to the song of songs / Sholom Aleichem ; Tug of love / Israel Zangwill ; In the storm / David Pinski ; The kerchief / S.J. Agnon -- The world of Hasidism. Reb Yosele and the Brazlav Hasidim / Ilya Ehrenburg ; Israel and the enemy / Meyer Levin ; The Rabbi's son / Nahman of Brazlav ; The Zaddik of Sosov / Judah Steinberg ; If not higher / Isaac Loeb Peretz ; How the Rabbi of Kalev freed a song / Manasseh Unger ; Reb Jacob : Herzl's hasid / Moses Smilanski. III. The modern world. To be or not to be? "Among our people" / Jean-Richard Bloch ; Military service / Micha Joseph Berdyczevski ; A livelihood / Judah Steinberg ; Forlorn and forsaken / Isaiah Bershadski ; Pogrom / Arnold Zweig ; Before the law / Franz Kafka ; The friend of the ghetto / Edmond Fleg ; Making the crooked straight / Hayyim Nahman Bialik ; Avrohmche nightingale / Meir Aron Goldschmidt ; Buchmendel / Stefan Zweig ; The enemies / Paul Schlesinger ; Alfred Engl�ander / Franz Werfel ; Luigi of Catanzaro / Louis Golding ; The eternal Jew / Lion Feuchtwanger ; The romantic / Ludwig Lewisohn -- America. An American in Tunis / Mordecai Manuel Noah ; The lie / Mary Antin ; Zorakh / John Cournos ; A picnic / S. Liebin ; Solomon / I. Raboy ; Alte Bobbe / Charles Angoff ; Meetings and partings / Charles Reznikoff ; The death of Sholom Aleichem / Maurice Samuel ; The son / Isaac Bashevis Singer ; The testimony of Major Kaufman / Howard Fast ; Berman's joy / Edward Lewis Wallant ; The Jewbird / Bernard Malamud ; The Golem / Avram Davidson -- Soviet Russia. The revolution and the Zussmans / David Bergelson ; Gedali / Isaac Babel ; The dispute / S. Godiner ; From Bodana's diary / I. Kipnis -- The Holocaust. A ghetto dog / Isaiah Spiegel ; A day in the Vilna ghetto / Mark Dworzecki ; The bunker / M.J. Feigenbaum ; Underground courier / Wladka Meed ; Dialogue with the dead / Mordecai Strigler ; Never again / Andr�e Schwarz-Bart ; "For Yosl, for everything" / Louis Falstein -- Israel. The way out / Joseph Hayyim Brenner ; The year of abundance / Moses Stavsky ; The three haluzot / Avigdor Hameiri ; The pangs of messiah / Moses Smilanski ; The Nigun / David Shimonovitch ; Foaling season / Edward Robbin ; Rahamin the porter / Hayyim Hazaz ; In these heavy hot days / Gershon Shofman ; The name / Aharon Megged ; The acid test of honesty / Ephraim Kishon ; Two trees / Mendel Mann ; The world is a room / Yehuda Amihai. selected and edited by Leo W. Schwarz. Bibliographical references included in "Biographical notes" (p. 815-829). Jews Fiction Jewish literature Jewish literature Jews PN6067 .J475 1965 808.899174924 65022448 DLC 750616 20200626142050.0 ocm01393938 eng