The I. L. Peretz Reader

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Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1480440787
Total Pages : 749 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (84 download)

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Book Synopsis The I. L. Peretz Reader by : I. L. Peretz

Download or read book The I. L. Peretz Reader written by I. L. Peretz and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 749 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These short works from a master of Jewish literature offer “a brilliantly evocative tribute to a bygone era” (Publishers Weekly). Isaac Leybush Peretz is one of the most influential figures of modern Jewish culture. Born in Poland and dedicated to Yiddish culture, he recognized that Jews needed to adapt to their times while preserving their cultural heritage, and his captivating and beautiful writings explore the complexities inherent in the struggle between tradition and the desire for progress. This book, which presents a memoir, poem, travelogue, and twenty-six stories by Peretz, also provides a detailed essay about Peretz’s life by Ruth R. Wisse. This edition of the book includes, as well, Peretz’s great visionary drama A Night in the Old Marketplace, in a rhymed, performable translation by Hillel Halkin.

Stories and Pictures

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis Stories and Pictures by : Isaac Leib Peretz

Download or read book Stories and Pictures written by Isaac Leib Peretz and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Even Higher

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Publisher : Tundra Books (NY)
ISBN 13 : 0887767583
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (877 download)

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Book Synopsis Even Higher by : Richard Ungar

Download or read book Even Higher written by Richard Ungar and published by Tundra Books (NY). This book was released on 2007 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the village of Nemirov, young Reuven investigates the annual disappearance of his beloved rabbi who is rumored to ascend to heaven on the day before Rosh Hashanah to beg forgiveness for the people of Nemirov.

A Treasury of Yiddish Stories

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 630 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (999 download)

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Book Synopsis A Treasury of Yiddish Stories by : Irving Howe

Download or read book A Treasury of Yiddish Stories written by Irving Howe and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Selected Works of I.L. Peretz

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Publisher : Pangloss Press
ISBN 13 : 9780934710251
Total Pages : 485 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (12 download)

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Book Synopsis Selected Works of I.L. Peretz by : Isaac Leib Peretz

Download or read book Selected Works of I.L. Peretz written by Isaac Leib Peretz and published by Pangloss Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Classic Yiddish Stories of S. Y. Abramovitsh, Sholem Aleichem, and I. L. Peretz

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Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 0815650884
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (156 download)

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Book Synopsis Classic Yiddish Stories of S. Y. Abramovitsh, Sholem Aleichem, and I. L. Peretz by : Ken Frieden

Download or read book Classic Yiddish Stories of S. Y. Abramovitsh, Sholem Aleichem, and I. L. Peretz written by Ken Frieden and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-14 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two novellas by S. Y. Abramovitsh open this collection of the best short works by three influential nineteenth-century Jewish authors. Abra- movitsh’s alter ego—Mendele the Book Peddler—introduces himself and narrates both The Little Man and Fishke the Lame. His cast of characters includes Isaac Abraham as tailor’s apprentice, choirboy, and corrupt businessman; Mendele’s friend Wine ’n’ Candles Alter; and Fishke, who travels through the Ukraine with a caravan of beggars. Sholem Aleichem’s lively stories reintroduce us to Tevye, the gregarious dairyman, as he describes the pleasures of raising his independent-minded daughters. These are followed by short monologues in which Aleichem gives voice to unforgettable characters from Eastern Europe to the Lower East Side. Finally, I. L. Peretz’s neo-hasidic tales draw on hasidic traditions in the service of modern literature. These stories provide an unsentimental look back at Jewish life in Eastern Europe. Although nostalgia occasionally colors their prose, the writers were social critics who understood the shortcomings of shtetl life. For the general reader, these translations breathe new life into the extraordinary worlds of Yiddish literature. The introduction, glossary, and biographical essays contemporaneous to each author put those worlds into context, making the book indispensable to students and scholars of Yiddish culture.

Jewish Primitivism

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Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1503628280
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (36 download)

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Book Synopsis Jewish Primitivism by : Samuel J. Spinner

Download or read book Jewish Primitivism written by Samuel J. Spinner and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-27 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Around the beginning of the twentieth century, Jewish writers and artists across Europe began depicting fellow Jews as savages or "primitive" tribesmen. Primitivism—the European appreciation of and fascination with so-called "primitive," non-Western peoples who were also subjugated and denigrated—was a powerful artistic critique of the modern world and was adopted by Jewish writers and artists to explore the urgent questions surrounding their own identity and status in Europe as insiders and outsiders. Jewish primitivism found expression in a variety of forms in Yiddish, Hebrew, and German literature, photography, and graphic art, including in the work of figures such as Franz Kafka, Y.L. Peretz, S. An-sky, Uri Zvi Greenberg, Else Lasker-Schüler, and Moï Ver. In Jewish Primitivism, Samuel J. Spinner argues that these and other Jewish modernists developed a distinct primitivist aesthetic that, by locating the savage present within Europe, challenged the idea of the threatening savage other from outside Europe on which much primitivism relied: in Jewish primitivism, the savage is already there. This book offers a new assessment of modern Jewish art and literature and shows how Jewish primitivism troubles the boundary between observer and observed, cultured and "primitive," colonizer and colonized.

The Yom Kippur Anthology

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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0827613482
Total Pages : 495 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (276 download)

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Book Synopsis The Yom Kippur Anthology by : Philip Goodman

Download or read book The Yom Kippur Anthology written by Philip Goodman and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2018-07 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Back by popular demand, the classic JPS holiday anthologies remain essential and relevant in our digital age. Unequaled in-depth compilations of classic and contemporary writings, they have long guided rabbis, cantors, educators, and other readers seeking the origins, meanings, and varied celebrations of the Jewish festivals. Drawing on Jewish creativity from hundreds of sources--the Bible, postbiblical literature, Talmud, midrashim, prayers with commentaries, Hasidic tales, short stories, poems, liturgical music--and describing Yom Kippur observances in various lands and eras, The Yom Kippur Anthology vividly evokes the vitality of this holiday throughout history and its significance for the modern Jew. Literary works by prominent authors S. Y. Agnon, Martin Buber, Meyer Levin, I. L. Peretz, Franz Rosenzweig, Sholom Aleichem, Elie Wiesel, and Herman Wouk also illuminate the spiritual grandeur of the holiday.

Moshkeleh the Thief

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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 082761876X
Total Pages : 73 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (276 download)

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Book Synopsis Moshkeleh the Thief by : Sholem Aleichem

Download or read book Moshkeleh the Thief written by Sholem Aleichem and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2021-09 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first English translation of Sholom Aleichem's rediscovered novel, Moshkeleh the Thief, has a riveting plot, an unusual love story, and a keenly observed portrayal of an underclass Jew replete with characters never before been seen in Yiddish literature. The eponymous hero, Moshkeleh, is a robust chap and horse thief. When Tsireleh, daughter of a tavern keeper, flees to a monastery with the man she loves--a non-Jew she met at the tavern--the humiliated tavern keeper's family turns to Moshkeleh for help, not knowing he too is in love with her. For some unknown reason, this innovative novel does not appear in the standard twenty-eight-volume edition of Sholom Aleichem's collected works, published after his death. Strikingly, Moshkeleh the Thief shows Jews interacting with non-Jews in the Russian Pale of Settlement--a groundbreaking theme in modern Yiddish literature. This novel is also important for Sholom Aleichem's approach to his material. Yiddish literature had long maintained a tradition of edelkeyt, refinement. Authors eschewed violence, the darker side of life, and people on the fringe of respectability. Moshkeleh thus enters a Jewish arena not hitherto explored in a novel.

The Seven Good Years, and Other Stories of I.L. Peretz

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Publisher : University of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780827607712
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (77 download)

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Book Synopsis The Seven Good Years, and Other Stories of I.L. Peretz by : Isaac Loeb Peretz

Download or read book The Seven Good Years, and Other Stories of I.L. Peretz written by Isaac Loeb Peretz and published by University of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I.L. Perez (1859-1915) captured the essence of eastern European Jewish life in his writings. Ten stories--tales about good Jews like Bontche Schweig and Chaim the Porter. They are stories of love, piety, miracles, and magic, stories about woodcutters, rabis, businessmen, and prophets.

The Passover Guest

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Publisher : Holiday House
ISBN 13 : 0823453227
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (234 download)

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Book Synopsis The Passover Guest by : Susan Kusel

Download or read book The Passover Guest written by Susan Kusel and published by Holiday House. This book was released on 2024-01-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Muriel assumes her family is too poor to hold a Passover Seder this year--but an act of kindness and a mysterious magician change everything. It's the Spring of 1933 in Washington D.C., and the Great Depression is hitting young Muriel's family hard. Her father has lost his job, and her family barely has enough food most days, let alone for a Passover Seder. They don't even have any wine to leave out for the prophet Elijah's ceremonial cup. With no feast to rush home to, Muriel wanders by the Lincoln Memorial, where she encounters a mysterious magician in whose hands juggled eggs become lit candles. After she makes a kind gesture, he encourages her to run home for her Seder, and when she does, she encounters a holiday miracle, a bountiful feast of brisket, soup, and matzah. But who was this mysterious benefactor? When Muriel sees Elijah's ceremonial cup is empty, she has a good idea. This fresh retelling of the classic I.L. Peretz story, best known through Uri Shulevitz's 1973 adaptation The Magician, has been sumptuously illustrated by noted graphic novelist Sean Rubin, who based his art on photographs of D.C. in the 1930s. An author note with information about the holiday is included. An Association of Jewish Libraries Spring Holiday Highlight A Booklist Editors' Choice A CSMCL Best Multicultural Children's Book of the Year

ספר משלים

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Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814324493
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (244 download)

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Book Synopsis ספר משלים by : Moshe Wallich

Download or read book ספר משלים written by Moshe Wallich and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduced pages of the original 17th-century Yiddish, including the woodcuts, face the first English translation of the 34 fables that comprise Wallich's Sefer Mesholim. A valuable resource for students of the Yiddish language and of European Jewish culture of the early modern period. The fables come mostly from Aesop and medieval Hebrew and German sources. Well annotated. No index. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

A Knight at the Opera

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Publisher : Purdue University Press
ISBN 13 : 1557536015
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (575 download)

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Book Synopsis A Knight at the Opera by : Leah Garrett

Download or read book A Knight at the Opera written by Leah Garrett and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Knight at the Opera examines the remarkable and unknown role that the medieval legend (and Wagner opera) Tannh user played in Jewish cultural life in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The book analyzes how three of the greatest Jewish thinkers of that era, Heinrich Heine, Theodor Herzl, and I. L. Peretz, used this central myth of Germany to strengthen Jewish culture and to attack anti-Semitism. Readers will see how Tannh user evolves from a medieval knight to Peretz's pious Jewish scholar in the Land of Israel. The book also discusses how the founder of Zionism, Theodor Herzl, was so inspired by Wagner's opera that he wrote The Jewish State while attending performances of it. A Knight at the Opera uses Tannh user as a way to examine the changing relationship between Jews and the broader world during the advent of the modern era, and to question if any art, even that of a prominent anti-Semite, should be considered taboo.

Fly Already

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698166116
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (981 download)

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Book Synopsis Fly Already by : Etgar Keret

Download or read book Fly Already written by Etgar Keret and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a "genius" (New York Times) storyteller: a new, subversive, hilarious, heart-breaking collection. "There is sweetheartedness and wisdom and eloquence and transcendence in his stories because these virtues exist in abundance in Etgar himself... I am very happy that Etgar and his work are in the world, making things better." --George Saunders There's no one like Etgar Keret. His stories take place at the crossroads of the fantastical, searing, and hilarious. His characters grapple with parenthood and family, war and games, marijuana and cake, memory and love. These stories never go to the expected place, but always surprise, entertain, and move... In "Arctic Lizard," a young boy narrates a post-apocalyptic version of the world where a youth army wages an unending war, rewarded by collecting prizes. A father tries to shield his son from the inevitable in "Fly Already." In "One Gram Short," a guy just wants to get a joint to impress a girl and ends up down a rabbit hole of chaos and heartache. And in the masterpiece "Pineapple Crush," two unlikely people connect through an evening smoke down by the beach, only to have one of them imagine a much deeper relationship. The thread that weaves these pieces together is our inability to communicate, to see so little of the world around us and to understand each other even less. Yet somehow, in these pages, through Etgar's deep love for humanity and our hapless existence, a bright light shines through and our universal connection to each other sparks alive.

Beautiful as the Moon, Radiant as the Stars

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Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 044651036X
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (465 download)

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Book Synopsis Beautiful as the Moon, Radiant as the Stars by : Sandra Bark

Download or read book Beautiful as the Moon, Radiant as the Stars written by Sandra Bark and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2007-09-03 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is certain to appeal to the millions of Jewish women interested in Jewish literature and the writings of Cynthia Ozick, Francine Prose, and Grace Paley. Beautifully packaged, it is an ideal Mother's Day or Bat-Mitzvah gift. This volume contains translations of Yiddish stories from eminent scholars--including an Isaac Bashevis Singer story that has never before been published in English--and well-known tales that Jewish readers everywhere love. As bestsellers such as Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer and For the Relief of Unbearable Urges by Nathan Englander have demonstrated, there is a strong interest in Jewish stories. Yiddish culture and music have seen a resurgence in recent years. NPR's All Things Considered aired a series of highly acclaimed documentaries about the Yiddish Radio Project and Klezmer musicians regularly play at top alternative venues.

Found Treasures

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Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)

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Book Synopsis Found Treasures by : Frieda Forman

Download or read book Found Treasures written by Frieda Forman and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first of its kind, this anthology showcases women's writing previously available only in Yiddish. A book of voices from an almost forgotten female heritage, it features eighteen writers who speak powerfully of the events that shaped their lives; the daily fabric of life in Europe, the struggle from which new lives in North America, Palestine and then Israel were forged, the terror and challenge of survival during the Holocaust and its aftermath.

The New Joys of Yiddish

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Publisher : Harmony
ISBN 13 : 0307566048
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)

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Book Synopsis The New Joys of Yiddish by : Leo Rosten

Download or read book The New Joys of Yiddish written by Leo Rosten and published by Harmony. This book was released on 2010-04-14 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than a quarter of a century ago, Leo Rosten published the first comprehensive and hilariously entertaining lexicon of the colorful and deeply expressive language of Yiddish. Said “to give body and soul to the Yiddish language,” The Joys of Yiddish went on to become an indispensable tool for writers, journalists, politicians, and students, as well as a perennial bestseller for three decades. Rosten described his book as “a relaxed lexicon of Yiddish, Hebrew, and Yinglish words often encountered in English, plus dozens that ought to be, with serendipitous excursions into Jewish humor, habits, holidays, history, religion, ceremonies, folklore, and cuisine–the whole generously garnished with stories, anecdotes, epigrams, Talmudic quotations, folk sayings, and jokes.” To this day, it is considered the seminal work on Yiddish in America–a true classic and a staple in the libraries of Jews and non-Jews alike. With the recent renaissance of interest in Yiddish, and in keeping with a language that embodies the variety and vibrancy of life itself, The New Joys of Yiddish brings Leo Rosten’s masterful work up to date. Revised for the first time by Lawrence Bush in close consultation with Rosten’s daughters, it retains the spirit of the original–with its wonderful jokes, tidbits of cultural history, Talmudic and Biblical references, and tips on pronunciation–and enhances it with hundreds of new entries, thoughtful commentary on how Yiddish has evolved over the years, and an invaluable new English-to-Yiddish index. In addition, The New Joys of Yiddish includes wondrous and amusing illustrations by renowned artist R.O. Blechman.