"Envy, or Yiddish in America"Ostrover the Story Teller is the only Yiddish writer in America whose work is regularly translated. Edelshtein the Poet seethes with jealousy and desperately seeks a translator to bring his work to life. "The Pagan Rabbi" Isaac Kornfeld, a learned rabbi, has hanged himself in a park. His beautiful young widow tells the story of Isaac's great struggle—between the flowering nymph of his passions and the book-laden old Jew of his soul.