Title: Der shoykhet

Title: Der shoykhet Title Record # 2293598
Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer
Date: 1965-09-24
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: Yiddish

Note: First published in Forverts, September 24 and 25, 1965, signed Y. Bashevis.

Synopsis: A reluctant shoykhet (slaughterer) has a dream in which all the animals he's killed reproach him, and goes mad.

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Year	Language	Title
1967^ⓘTranslated by Mirra Ginsburg. Only marginally speculative (a dream, madness)	English	The Slaughterer

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type
The New Yorker, November 25, 1967	1967-11-25	ed. Editors of the New Yorker					unknown^?The publication record was created from a secondary source and the publication format is unknown.	mag
The Seance and Other Stories	1968-00-00	Isaac Bashevis Singer	Farrar, Straus and Giroux		$5.95^?$: US dollar	[4]+ 276	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
An Isaac Bashevis Singer Reader	1971-00-00	Isaac Bashevis Singer	Farrar, Straus and Giroux	0-374-17747-3		560	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer	1982-02-00	Isaac Bashevis Singer	Farrar, Straus and Giroux	0-374-12631-3		viii+ 610	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer	1987-00-00	Isaac Bashevis Singer	Farrar, Straus and Giroux	0-374-51788-6	$12.95^?$: US dollar	viii+ 610	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll
Collected Stories: Gimpel the Fool to The Letter Writer	2004-07-00	Isaac Bashevis Singer	The Library of America (The Library of America #149)	1-931082-61-8	$35.00^?$: US dollar	x+ 789	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer	2008-07-10	Isaac Bashevis Singer	Paw Prints	978-1-4395-1293-7	$29.00^?$: US dollar		hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll

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