Never-Ending Tales: Stories from the Golden Age of Jewish Literature

by Jack Zipes

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An anthology of European and American short stories from the 1870s through the 1930s in which Jewish writers respond to antisemitism with humor, satire, irony, and hope

Between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Jewish writers in Europe and America published countless stories addressing “the Jewish Question”—the intense debate about the treatment of Jews following their so-called emancipation. In Never-Ending Tales, Jack Zipes presents more than two dozen of these stories, which attempted to subvert the antisemitism that the debate represented. Humorous and bittersweet, and filled with ironic reversals, these are stories of fantasy, magic, and transformation—tales about little...

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  • ISBN10 0691263779
  • ISBN13 9780691263779
  • Publish Date 2 December 2025
  • Publish Status Forthcoming
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Princeton University Press