Question
A group of avant-garde futuristic poets and short story writers called “The Gang” who wrote in this language published in an almanac called Khalyastre. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this language used for short stories centering on Tevye the Milkman, written by Ashkenazi Jewish author Sholem Aleichem.
ANSWER: Yiddish
[10m] One of the main editors of Khalyastre, who wrote the short story collection The River Breaks Up, had this surname. His brother with this surname wrote “The Spinoza of Market Street,” which is set in Frampol.
ANSWER: Singer [or Isaac Bashevis Singer; or Israel Joshua Singer]
[10h] This other Yiddish short story writer pitted the rebbe of Nemirov against a Litvak in his story “If Not Higher.” A downtrodden man is exalted by angels since he never complained on earth in his story “Bontsha the Silent.”
ANSWER: I. L. Peretz [or Isaac Leib Peretz; or Yitskhok Leybush Peretz]
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Summary
| 2023 Penn Bowl @ Waterloo | 10/28/2023 | Y | 4 | 12.50 | 100% | 25% | 0% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl @ FSU | 10/28/2023 | Y | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (Harvard) | 10/21/2023 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (Mainsite) | 10/21/2023 | Y | 6 | 18.33 | 100% | 83% | 0% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (Norcal) | 10/28/2023 | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (South Central) | 10/28/2023 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (UK) | 10/28/2023 | Y | 5 | 16.00 | 100% | 60% | 0% |
Data
| Columbia B | Cornell A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| JHU A | Rutgers | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| John Jay A | Swarthmore | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Cornell B | NYU | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Pitt | RIT | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| UMD A | JHU B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |