Title: The Dead Town
Title Record # 2345535
Author: I. L. Peretz
Date: 1996-10-00
Variant Title of:
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: English
Current Tags: 19th century (1), Poland (1), Jews (1), fantasy (1), first person point of view (1), story within a story (1), philosophy (1), poverty (1), living dead (1), World of Illusions (1), social commentary (1)
Author: I. L. Peretz
Date: 1996-10-00
Variant Title of:
די טויטע שטאַט?Di Toyte Shtat
[Yiddish]
(1895)
(by י. ל. פרץ?Peretz I. L.
)
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Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: English
Note: Originally published in Yiddish in 1895. Translated by Hillel Halkin.
Synopsis: A traveler tells a tale of a Jewish village in Poland which had stagnated to the point where no one ever died, because no one ever really lived.
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Current Tags: 19th century (1), Poland (1), Jews (1), fantasy (1), first person point of view (1), story within a story (1), philosophy (1), poverty (1), living dead (1), World of Illusions (1), social commentary (1)
Publications
| Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The I. L. Peretz Reader | 1996-10-00 | I. L. Peretz | Schocken Books (Library of Yiddish Classics) | 0-8052-1071-7 | $15.00?$: US dollar |
xxx+ 381+ [2] |
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
coll | Anatole Kaplan |  |