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November 8, 2017
Three Yiddish Stories by One of Hebrew Literature’s Underappreciated Geniuses
The most tragic Jewish writer of modern times.
Micha Yosef Berdichevsky (1865-1921) wrote the bulk of his short stories and novels in Hebrew. Yet between 1902 and 1906, he composed a series of short stories in Yiddish, set, like most of his work from this period, in a fictionalized shtetl. Seeking neither to satirize nor to romanticize, Berdichevsky—“the most tragic Jewish writer of modern times,” as Hillel Halkin has called him in Mosaic—instead portrayed “outward harmony . . . fraught with inner conflicts.” James Adam Redfield has rendered three such stories, perhaps better described as character sketches, into English. Here is how the first, “Yankev-Nosn,” begins:
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Three Yiddish Stories by One of Hebrew Literature’s Underappreciated Geniuses
The most tragic Jewish writer of modern times.