Re: Peretz short story

[a bisl yidishkayt <klezmer...>]

>I've read, perhaps here, about an I.L. Peretz short story
>"A Gilgul fun a Nigun" perhaps translated into English as
>"Migrations of a Melody".
>
>What I read sounded fascinating  (the tale of a tune's travels?), but
>I don't believe that it's in my Yiddish in English collections (The
>I.L. Peretz Reader -- is it "The Misssing Melody"? or A Treasury of
>Yiddish Stories).  Can anyone tell me where I can find it in English
>and, while we're at it, in the original for when I learn Yiddish?
>
>Bob

This is indeed a wonderful story and has a few references to
then-intergenerational musical preferences/playing.  I certainly wish I
could hear what Peretz heard when he wrote this story.

It is available - in Yiddish and English translation in:

        Yistskhok Leybush Peretz: Selected Stories, Bilingual Edition.
Trnaslation and Introduction by Eli Katz.  Zhitlowsky Foundation for Jewish
Culture, New York, 1991.  (Katz' English translation of the title is "The
Metamorphoses of a Melody")

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