No Star Too Beautiful: A Treasury of Yiddish Stories

A unique and rich anthology of Yiddish stories from the beginning of Yiddish literature through Isaac Bashevis Singer. First developed and written in medieval Germany, Yiddish eventually became the everyday speech of Jews all over Europe and later globally. Yiddish was a hybrid language crafted from German, mixed with Hebrew, Judeo-Aramaic, and blended with Italian and French as well as the Slavic languages. It gave rise to a literature that reflected not only Jewish life but also the cultu...