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Short Stories

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Vil­na My Vilna
Abraham Karpinowitz; Helen Mintz, trans.
Cover of Children of the New World
Fic­tion
Chil­dren of the New World
Alexan­der Weinstein
Cover of The Storyteller: Tales Out of Loneliness
Fic­tion
The Sto­ry­teller: Tales Out of Loneliness
Walter Benjamin
Cover of The Saviour Shoes and Other Stories
Fic­tion
The Sav­iour Shoes and Oth­er Stories
Carol Lipszyc
Cover of Have I Got a Story for You: More Than a Century of Fiction from the Forward
Fic­tion
Have I Got a Sto­ry for You: More Than a Cen­tu­ry of Fic­tion from the Forward
Ezra Glin­ter
Cover of The Bed Moved
Fic­tion
The Bed Moved
Rebec­ca Schiff
Cover of And So Is the Bus: Jerusalem Stories
Fic­tion
And So Is the Bus: Jerusalem Stories
Yossel Birstein; Margaret Birstein, Hana Infar, and Robert Manaster, trans.
Cover of In the Land of Armadillos: Stories
Fic­tion
In the Land of Armadil­los: Stories
Helen Maryles Shankman
Cover of The Peace Process: A Novella and Stories
Fic­tion
The Peace Process: A Novel­la and Stories
Bruce Jay Friedman
Cover of The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God & Other Stories
Fic­tion
The Bus Dri­ver Who Want­ed to Be God & Oth­er Stories
Etgar Keret
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Book Cov­er of the Week: The Bus Dri­ver Who Want­ed to Be God

Post­ed by Nat BernsteinFour­teen years after its orig­i­nal pub­li­ca­tion in Eng­lish trans­la­tion, Etgar Keret’s sem­i­nal col­lec­tion of short sto­ries was reis­sued…
Nat Bern­stein
October 29, 2015
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Jew­ish Noir: Con­tem­po­rary Tales of Crime and Oth­er Dark Deeds
Kenneth Wishnia, ed.
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Book Cov­er of the Week: The Best Place on Earth

Post­ed by Nat BernsteinExcel­lent news! Ayelet Tsabar­i’s debut col­lec­tion of short sto­ries, The Best Place on Earth—which won the 2015 Sami Rohr Prize for Jew­ish…
Nat Bern­stein
July 10, 2015
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Bit­ter Bronx: Thir­teen Stories
Jerome Charyn
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Yudl and Oth­er Stories
Layle Silbert
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Days of Awe
Lau­ren Fox
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