Re: Peretz short story

[Owen Davidson <owend...>]

Thanks, Dena.  I've wondered about that story since I heard it read on
the radio.  I believe it was on NPR, but I can't remember when or why.

Owen

a bisl yidishkayt wrote:
> 
> >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")
> 
> Dena
> a bisl yidishkayt
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