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I've been slogging for weeks now through A Treasury of Yiddish Stories -- slogging because like 90% of the stuff in there is incredibly depressing, which is difficult for 600 pages. (And come on, editors, not all Yiddish stories are super depressing! Although admittedly this was first published and compiled in 1954 when it is not TOTALLY surprising that people compiling works related to Eastern European Jewish culture would be A LITTLE generally depressed.)

Anyway, not everything was super depressing; a few things were very charming, including my absolute favorite, a Jewish fairy tale by I.L. Peretz called "Devotion Without End" which is full of WACKY PLOT TWISTS and has an important moral.

( The moral is, God really HATES non-constructive criticism )