Yiddish Literature is one of the world’s great literatures, in both quantity and quality. Its greatest figures, such as Sholem Aleichem and Isaac Bashevis Singer are dead, and the tendency is to describe Yiddish literature in the past tense.

However, a significant number of Yiddish writers are still producing first-rate literature today. One of them, Dovid Katz. I have put together a selection of his most interesting stories about contemporary Jewish life in the West. I hope that reading these stories will whet the reader’s appetite for more of Dovid Katz’s beautifully evocative tales.