dies almost as soon as arrested, whereas in reality he died the following year, or maybe as late as 1952 according to some sources). Selected works Gedankn un motivn — lider in proze ("Ideas and Motifs — Prose Poems"), Vilna, 1907 Hekher fun der erd ("Higher than the Earth"), Warsaw, 1910 Gezang un gebet ("Song and Prayer"), Kiev, 1912 (collection of songs) Translation of selected tales from Hans Christian Andersen, 1918 Mayselekh in ferzn ("Stories in Verse"), 1918/19 (many editions: Kiev, Warsaw, Berlin) Gedakht ("Imagined"), Berlin, 1922/23 (collection of fantastic stories, 2 vols.) Fun mayne giter ("From My Estates"), Kiev, 1929 Hoyptshtet ("Capital Cities"), Moscow, 1934 Zeks mayselekh ("Six Little Tales"), 1939 Di mishpokhe Mashber ("The Family Mashber"), Kiev, 1939 (Vol. 1), New York, 1948 (Vol. 2) Korbones ("Victims"), Moscow, 1943 Dertseylungen un eseyen ("Stories and Essays"), New York, 1957 (posthumous) Vidervuks ("Regeneration"), Moscow, 1969 (posthumous) References Bibliography Delphine Bechtel: Der Nister’s Work 1907–1929: A Study of a Yiddish Symbolist. Bern 1990 (= «Contacts» Etudes et Documents, III, 11). Delphine Bechtel: Der Nister’s ‘Der Kadmen’: a Metaphysical Narration on Cosmogony and Creation. , Yiddish, vol. VIII, n° 2, New York, 1992, p. 38–54. Saul Kaleko, Artikel NISTER, in: Jüdisches Lexikon, Bd. IV/1, Berlin 1927. (German) Ber Kotlerman: Broken Heart / Broken Wholeness: The Post-Holocaust Plea for Jewish Reconstruction of the Soviet Yiddish Writer Der Nister. Academic Studies Press, Boston 2017 Peter B. Maggs: The Mandelstam and „Der Nister“ Files: An Introduction to Stalin-Era Prison and Labor Camp Records. 1995. Daniela Mantovan-Kromer: Female Archetypes in Nister's Symbolist Short Stories. Jerusalem 1992 (Beitrag zur 4. International Conference in Yiddish Studies). Daniela Mantovan-Kromer: Der Nister's 'In vayn-keler'. A Study in Metaphor. In: The Field of Yiddish. Fifth Collection, Northwestern University Press and YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, New York 1993. Salman Reisen, Leksikon fun der Yidisher Literatur un Prese, 1926 ff., Vol. II. (Yiddish) Günter Stemberger, Geschichte der jüdischen Literatur, 1977. (German) Uncovering the Hidden: The Works and Life of Der Nister, ed. Estraikh Gennady, Hoge Kerstin, and Krutikov Mikhail. Studies in Yiddish 12, Legenda, Oxford 2014 Salomon Wininger, Vol. III, 1925 ff. (German) External links Der Nister and his symbolist short stories (1913-1929): Patterns of imagination by Daniela Mantovan, Columbia University (1993) Der Nister in The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe Daniela Mantovan-Kromer: Der Nister. The hidden one Der Nister 1884-1950 short biography 1884 births 1950 deaths People from Berdychiv