Two Jews on a Train - Stories from the Old Country and the New

"Somewhere between Isaac Bashevis Singer and Morey Amsterdam."--"Kirkus Reviews"
Two Jews were on a train: "All Eastern European Jewish jokes start this way, or almost," says Adam Biro, who has assembled this rich volume of such stories, tales in which--thanks to a masterful translation by Catherine Tihanyi--we can hear the voices of generations using humor to teach about the delicacy, anguish, and unpredictability of life itself.

Summary

So two Jews were on a train. "All Eastern European Jewish jokes start this way, or almost" says Adam Biro, who has assembled this rich volume of such stories, tales in which we hear the voices of generations using humour to teach about the delicacy, anguish, and unpredictability of life itself.

Product details

• Authors: Adam Biro
• Assisted by: University Of Chicago Press (Editor), Catherine Tihanyi (Translation)
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2002
• EAN: 9780226052168
• ISBN: 978-0-226-05216-8
• No. of pages: 144
• Dimensions: 14 mm x 22 mm x 1 mm
• Weight: 198 g
• Series: Stories from the Old Country a
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews