""The Rivals and Other Stories" is a selection of eighteen early to mid-twentieth-century short stories by Russian immigrant author Jonah Rosenfeld, translated from their original Yiddish by Rachel Mines"--

Jonah Rosenfeld (1881-1944) was born in Chartorysk, Russia, and immigrated to New York in 1921. He was the author of twenty volumes of short stories, three novels, and a dozen plays.

Rachel Mines teaches in the English Department at Langara College in Vancouver, Canada. She was a Yiddish Book Center Translation Fellow in 2016.