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Arguing with the storm : stories by Yiddish women writers / edited by Rhea Tregebov.

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Sumach Press, c2007.

9781894549639 (trade pbk.)

1894549635 (trade pbk.)

229 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-225) and glossary.

Preface / Rhea Tregebov -- No more Rabbi! ; A guest ; A love story / Sarah Hamer-Jacklyn -- Becoming revolutionary / Bryna Berovitch -- A fiddle / Anne Viderman -- The apple of her eye / Malka Lee -- Three meetings ; Blessed hands ; Goodbye, Honey / Frume Halpern -- Little Abrahams / Rochel Broches -- A natural death / Paula Frankel-Zaltzman -- Letters to God / Chava Rosenfarb -- The sad house in Talbiye ; Rumiya and the Shofar / Rikuda Potash.

"This stunning collection of fourteen translated stories represents an outstanding contribution to the Yiddish renaissance that has been gaining momentum since the 1980s. The title Arguing with the Storm comes from a poem by Yiddish author Rachel Korn in which the speaker's mother argues with a hailstorm that threatens to lay waste her fields. Although the poem was published before the Second World War, the impending storm can be seen as a metaphor prefiguring the Holocaust and the destruction from which so few were successfully hidden. The mother's defiant argument, however, remains a paradigm of courage and resistance. The prayers and tirades, humour and rage, compassion and wisdom expressed in this collection offer readers a window onto the complexities of the lives portrayed."--Sumach Press.

Short stories -- Women authors.

Yiddish fiction -- Translations into English.

Tregebov, Rhea, 1953-

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