The Jewish Publication Society of America desires to acknowledge the
valuable aid which Mr. A. S. Freidus, of the Department of Jewish
Literature, in the New York Public Library, extended to it in compiling
the biographical data relating to the authors whose stories appear in
English garb in the present volume. Some of the authors that are living
in America courteously furnished the Society with the data referring to
their own biographies.
The following sources have been consulted for the biographies: The
Jewish Encyclopaedia; Wiener, History of Yiddish Literature in the
Nineteenth Century; Pinnes, Histoire de la Litterature Judeo-Allemande,
and the Yiddish version of the same, Die Geschichte vun der juedischer
Literatur; Baal-Mahashabot, Geklibene Schriften; Sefer Zikkaron
le-Sofere Yisrael ha-hayyim ittanu ka-Yom; Eisenstadt, Hakme Yisrael
be-Amerika; the memoirs preceding the collected works of some of the
authors; and scattered articles in European and American Yiddish
periodicals.