A treasury of Yiddish stories / edited by Irving Howe & Eliezer Greenberg ; with drawings by Ben Shahn.

NOTES ON THE AUTHORS : -- Mendele Mocher Sforim -- Sholom Aleichem -- I.L. Peretz -- David Pinski -- Mordecai Spector -- Sholem Asch -- Abraham Reisen -- I.M. Weissenberg -- Zalman Schneour -- Lamed Shapiro -- Moishe Kilbak -- I.J. Singer -- Jonah Rosenfel -- I. Bashevis Singer -- Joseph Opatoshu -- Moishe Nadir -- Itzik Manger -- David Bergelson -- Isaac Metzker -- Pesach Marcus -- Jacob Glatstein -- Isaiah Spiegel -- Chaim Grade.

STORY TITLES : -- The calf -- On account of a hat -- Dovotion without end -- Eternal life -- Hodel -- The search -- Dreyfus in Kasrilevke -- The pair -- The dead town -- Ne'ilah in Gehenna -- Cabalists -- Bontsha the silent -- If not highe -- Mad talmudist -- Rabbi Yochanan the warden -- The golem -- And then he wept -- a meal for the poor -- Sanctification of the name -- Kola Street -- The poor community -- The big Succeh -- Tuition for the Rebbe -- Recluse -- Mazel tov -- Father and the boys -- Revenge (extracts from a student's diary) -- The girl -- White chalah -- Smoke -- The rebbe and the rebbetsin -- Munie the bird dealer -- Repentance -- Sand -- Competitors -- The sick Goose -- Gimpel the fool -- May the temple be restored! -- A page from the song of songs -- My first love -- Adventures of Hershel Summerwind -- Eating days -- In a backwoods town -- To the New World -- A quiet garden spot -- The little shoemakers -- Higher and higher -- The eternal wedding gown -- The return -- The man who slept through the end of the world -- A ghetto dog -- My quarrel with Hersh Rasseyner.

FOLK TALES: -- Yiddish proverbs -- A tale of candelabrum -- Stories of Hershel Ostropolier -- Tales of Chelm.