Joel Berkowitz is Associate Professor of Modern Jewish Studies at the University at Albany, State University of New York. He is the author of Shakespeare on the American Yiddish Stage and the editor of Yiddish Theatre: New Approaches. Jeremy Dauber is Atran Assistant Professor of Yiddish at Columbia University. He is the author of Antonio's Devils: Writers of the Jewish Enlightenment and the Birth of Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Literature.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionTranslators' Note1. Silliness and SanctimonyAaron Halle Wolfssohn2. Serkele, or, In Mourning for a BrotherShloyme Ettinger3. The Two Kuni-LemlsAvrom Goldfaden4. MiriamPeretz Hirschbein5. The DukeAlter KacyzneAppendix

Joel Berkowitz is Associate Professor of Modern Jewish Studies at the University at Albany, State University of New York. He is the author of Shakespeare on the American Yiddish Stage and the editor of Yiddish Theatre: New Approaches. Jeremy Dauber is Atran Assistant Professor of Yiddish at Columbia University. He is the author of Antonio's Devils: Writers of the Jewish Enlightenment and the Birth of Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Literature.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionTranslators' Note1. Silliness and SanctimonyAaron Halle Wolfssohn2. Serkele, or, In Mourning for a BrotherShloyme Ettinger3. The Two Kuni-LemlsAvrom Goldfaden4. MiriamPeretz Hirschbein5. The DukeAlter KacyzneAppendix

Joel Berkowitz is Associate Professor of Modern Jewish Studies at the University at Albany, State University of New York. He is the author of Shakespeare on the American Yiddish Stage and the editor of Yiddish Theatre: New Approaches. Jeremy Dauber is Atran Assistant Professor of Yiddish at Columbia University. He is the author of Antonio's Devils: Writers of the Jewish Enlightenment and the Birth of Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Literature.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionTranslators' Note1. Silliness and SanctimonyAaron Halle Wolfssohn2. Serkele, or, In Mourning for a BrotherShloyme Ettinger3. The Two Kuni-LemlsAvrom Goldfaden4. MiriamPeretz Hirschbein5. The DukeAlter KacyzneAppendix