A Shtetl and Other Yiddish Novellas Edited by Ruth R. Wisse Discount ' Harshav writes in the

' Harshav writes in the preface

He dreamed of leading an ethnographic expedition that would produce an archive―what he called an Oral Torah of the common people rather than the rabbinic elite―which would preserve Jewish traditions and transform them into the seeds of a modern Jewish culture

multigenerational vision of American Jewish culture and its intersection with the art of photography

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A Shtetl and Other Yiddish Novellas Edited by Ruth R. Wisse Discount ' Harshav writes in theThe five short novellas which comprise this anthology were written between 1890 and World War I. All share a common setting the Eastern European Jewish town or shtetl, and all deal in different ways with a single topic the Jewish confrontation with modernity. The authors of these novellas are among the greatest masters of Yiddish prose. In their work, today's reader will discover a literary tradition of considerable scope, energy, and variety and will