A Treasury of Yiddish Stories: Revised and Updated Edition - Paperbackby Irving Howe (Editor), Eliezer Greenberg (Editor) Fifty two Yiddish short stories describe life in the shetl and other aspects of the Jewish experience, and include works produced by Jewish writers during the last two centuries. Author Biography Irving Howe (1920 1993) was distinguished professor at the Graduate Center of the City of New York and coeditor of Dissent magazine. His many publications include Thomas Hardy, Politics and the Novel,