The Oxford book of Jewish Stories

"In selecting these fifty-two stories, written originally in about a dozen different languages, I set my starting mark circa 1860, when Sholem Jacob Abramovitsh, the grand-father of Yiddish letters, began writing novels for the Jewish masses in Eastern Europe, thus consciously initiating the tradition this anthology strives to represent...

From then on, I sought only to include Abramovitsh's grand-children, writers engaged in deciphering their Jewish identity, responsible for stories of high artistic value that serve as mirrors to major transhistorical themes like anti-Semitism, assimilation, interreligious relations, mysticism, and the tension between politics and faith." from the Preface