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Book Synopsis The People and the Books: 18 Classics of Jewish Literature by : Adam Kirsch
Download or read book The People and the Books: 18 Classics of Jewish Literature written by Adam Kirsch and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible introduction to the classics of Jewish literature, from the Bible to modern times, by "one of America’s finest literary critics" (Wall Street Journal). Jews have long embraced their identity as “the people of the book.” But outside of the Bible, much of the Jewish literary tradition remains little known to nonspecialist readers. The People and the Books shows how central questions and themes of our history and culture are reflected in the Jewish literary canon: the nature of God, the right way to understand the Bible, the relationship of the Jews to their Promised Land, and the challenges of living as a minority in Diaspora. Adam Kirsch explores eighteen classic texts, including the biblical books of Deuteronomy and Esther, the philosophy of Maimonides, the autobiography of the medieval businesswoman Glückel of Hameln, and the Zionist manifestoes of Theodor Herzl. From the Jews of Roman Egypt to the mystical devotees of Hasidism in Eastern Europe, The People and the Books brings the treasures of Jewish literature to life and offers new ways to think about their enduring power and influence.
Book Synopsis Burning Girls and Other Stories by : Veronica Schanoes
Download or read book Burning Girls and Other Stories written by Veronica Schanoes and published by Tordotcom. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Most Anticipated in 2021 Pick for The Independent | Buzzfeed | The Nerd Daily When we came to America, we brought anger and socialism and hunger. We also brought our demons. In Burning Girls and Other Stories, Veronica Schanoes crosses borders and genres with stories of fierce women at the margins of society burning their way toward the center. This debut collection introduces readers to a fantasist in the vein of Karen Russell and Kelly Link, with a voice all her own. Emma Goldman—yes, that Emma Goldman—takes tea with the Baba Yaga and truths unfold inside of exquisitely crafted lies. In "Among the Thorns," a young woman in seventeenth century Germany is intent on avenging the brutal murder of her peddler father, but discovers that vengeance may consume all that it touches. In the showstopping, awards finalist title story, "Burning Girls," Schanoes invests the immigrant narrative with a fearsome fairytale quality that tells a story about America we may not want—but need—to hear. Dreamy, dangerous, and precise, with the weight of the very oldest tales we tell, Burning Girls and Other Stories introduces a writer pushing the boundaries of both fantasy and contemporary fiction. With a foreword by Jane Yolen At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Book Synopsis One-hundred-and-one Jewish Read-aloud Stories by : Barbara Diamond Goldman
Download or read book One-hundred-and-one Jewish Read-aloud Stories written by Barbara Diamond Goldman and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of Jewish tales, Bible stories, legends, and real life accounts from Jews from every generation and many lands.
Book Synopsis The Penguin Book of Jewish Short Stories by : Emanuel Litvinoff
Download or read book The Penguin Book of Jewish Short Stories written by Emanuel Litvinoff and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 1979 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty stories by Jewish writers from all over the world, including some of the greatest names in modern literature.These stories, deeply rooted in Jewish life and consciousness, reflect authentic, often funny, often moving images of the Jewish people in the modern world. Many major literary figures are represented here: I. L. Peretz, founder of modern Yiddish writing; S. Y. Agnon, Saul Bellow, and Isaac Bashevis Singer, three Nobel Prize-winners; Isaac Babal, often called the greatest master of the Russian short story since Anton Chekhov; contemporary writers Philip Roth, Cynthia Ozick, and Muriel Spark; and many others.
Book Synopsis Jewish Literature and History by : Eliyana R. Adler
Download or read book Jewish Literature and History written by Eliyana R. Adler and published by Eisenbrauns. This book was released on 2008 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the relationship between Jewish literature and the historical setting in which it was written. The types of literature analyzed in this study include ghost stories; Yiddish, Ukrainian, and Russian Jewish literature; plays; letters; poetry; even obituaries.
Book Synopsis Jonah and Sarah by : David Shrayer-Petrov
Download or read book Jonah and Sarah written by David Shrayer-Petrov and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-29 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the deceptively simple narrative (Apple Cider Vinegar, Hurricane Bob) to the surrealist story (Dismemberers) and the magical tale (Jonah and Sarah and Lanskoy Road), the tempo fluctuates, but throughout, Shrayer-Petrov seamlessly preserves familiar voices. The stories have a genuine feel of the setting and epoch—the Russian stories work as narratives of everyday life, while the American stories offer an accurate sense of an émigré’s alienation. Like all good works of fiction, these stories take on a mythic quality and transcend time and place. Each carries and communicates to the reader an aura of mystery, the enigma of love, and a meeting of the Jewish past and present. Whether he invokes lyrical dialogue, gentle irony, or sharp polemical discourse, Shrayer-Petrov shows that he is a powerful presence in Russian and Jewish literature. For those interested in fiction about new immigrants to America or in the psychology of Jews in the two decades before the Soviet Union’s collapse, this collection is a must read.
Book Synopsis Stories by Meir Blinkin by : Meir Blinkin
Download or read book Stories by Meir Blinkin written by Meir Blinkin and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now available for the first time to the English-speaking public, the captivating short stories of master storyteller Meir Blinkin are the charming prose equivalents of the film Hester Street. These delightful and touching stories also give an authentic account of the Jewish immigrant experience at the turn of the century. This collection is introduced by the renowned Yiddish scholar, Ruth R. Wisse, professor of Yiddish literature at McGill University, and co-author, with Irving Howe, of Tales of Sholem of Aleichem. Her introduction provides bibliographical information on Meir Blinkin and places his work in the context of the development of Yiddish literature. Born in the same small town as Sholem Aleichem, Meir Blinkin was driven by poverty and anti-semitism to America. He arrived in New York in 1904; at the age of 25--one of the 105,000 Jews to reach America that year. At his untimely death eleven years later, Blinkin was well known to his Jewish-American contemporaries as one of their finest prose writers, a leader of the yunge literary movement, and a frequent contributor to the major Yiddish periodicals. Meir Blinkin's stories tell us what life was like in the immigrant community, conveying a strong sense of the stresses and changes to be endured. These stories not illuminate the social conditions of the times but provide deft psychological analyses of troubled immigrants, with their conflicting claims of loyalty to the secular world and Jewish orthodoxy. Blinkin is also a master at the evocation of mood, of psychic tensions and the claustrophobia of tenement life. In the best traditions of mimetic realism, he captures the vividly demotic speech of his characters, with their Anglicisms and malapropisms. This unique collection of stories helps preserve the vibrant immigrant world. A tribal memory man, Meir Blinkin saves us from cultural amnesia.
Book Synopsis American Jewish Fiction by : Gerald Shapiro
Download or read book American Jewish Fiction written by Gerald Shapiro and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A varied anthology of Jewish-American short fiction includes works by turn-of-the-century immigrant authors; famous authors such as Singer, Bellow, and Roth; and the more recent contemporary writers, all demonstrating the rich emotional breadth of the genre. Simultaneous. UP.
Book Synopsis The Oxford Book of Jewish Stories by : Ilan Stavans
Download or read book The Oxford Book of Jewish Stories written by Ilan Stavans and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of international Jewish fiction, featuring fifty stories by known and unknown writers. The story, The Zulu and the Zeide by Dan Jacobson is on the friendship in South Africa of a Jew and a black servant, while Family Ties by the Brazilian author Clarice Lispector is on Jewish identity.
Book Synopsis Jewish Stories by : Isaac Loeb Peretz
Download or read book Jewish Stories written by Isaac Loeb Peretz and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-27 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "Jewish Stories" is Isaac Loeb Peretz's collection of short stories and novellas. Peretz found the inspiration for his work in the folklore of Hasidic Judaism. However, all of his stories, with exception of the legend "The Image," are set in late nineteenth century Russia and Poland and deal with social issues related to the life of Jewish population. _x000D_ Contents:_x000D_ If Not Higher_x000D_ Domestic Happiness_x000D_ In the Post-chaise_x000D_ The New Tune_x000D_ Married_x000D_ The Seventh Candle of Blessing_x000D_ The Widow_x000D_ The Messenger_x000D_ What is the Soul?_x000D_ In Time of Pestilence_x000D_ Bontzye Shweig_x000D_ The Dead Town_x000D_ The Days of the Messiah_x000D_ Kabbalists_x000D_ Travel-pictures _x000D_ Trust_x000D_ Only Go!_x000D_ What Should a Jewess Need? _x000D_ No. 42_x000D_ The Maskil_x000D_ The Rabbi of Tishewitz_x000D_ Tales That Are Told_x000D_ A Little Boy_x000D_ The Yartseff Rabbi_x000D_ Lyashtzof_x000D_ The First Attempt_x000D_ The Second Attempt_x000D_ At the Shochet's_x000D_ The Rebbitzin of Skul_x000D_ Insured_x000D_ The Fire_x000D_ The Emigrant_x000D_ The Madman_x000D_ Misery_x000D_ The Làmed Wòfnik_x000D_ The Informer_x000D_ The Outcast_x000D_ A Chat_x000D_ The Pike_x000D_ The Fast_x000D_ The Woman Mistress Hannah_x000D_ In the Pond_x000D_ The Chanukah Light_x000D_ The Poor Little Boy_x000D_ Underground_x000D_ Between Two Mountains_x000D_ The Image
Book Synopsis "The First Day" and Other Stories by : Dvora Baron
Download or read book "The First Day" and Other Stories written by Dvora Baron and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001-03-31 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dvora Baron (1887-1956), the first modern Hebrew woman writer, was born in a small Lithuanian town in 1887. Her father, a rabbi, gave his daughter a thorough education, an extraordinary act at the time. Baron immigrated to Palestine in 1910, married a prominent Zionist activist, but defied the implicit ideological demands of the Zionist literary scene by continuing to write of the shtetl life she had left behind. The eighteen stories in this superb collection offer an intimate re-creation of Jewish Eastern Europe from a perspective seldom represented in Hebrew and Yiddish literature of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Baron brings vividly to life the shtetl experiences of women and other disenfranchised members of the Jewish community. Her stories relate the feelings of a newborn girl, a "Jewish" dog, an impoverished bookkeeper, a young widow who must hire herself out as a wet-nurse, and others who face emotional and physical hardships. Baron's fluid writing style pushes the flexibility of Hebrew and Yiddish syntax to its limits, while her profound knowledge of both biblical and rabbinical literature lends rich subtleties to her stories. A companion to Conversations with Dvora: An Experimental Biography of the First Modern Hebrew Woman Writer, by Amia Lieblich (California, 1997), this collection is drawn from Baron's earlier as well as later works.
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 Viking Adult. This book was released on 1989 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthology of tales about life in the Shetl and other aspects of the Jewish experience includes some of the most important literature produced by Jewish writers in the last two centuries.
Book Synopsis The Schocken Guide to Jewish Books by : Barry W. Holtz
Download or read book The Schocken Guide to Jewish Books written by Barry W. Holtz and published by Schocken. This book was released on 1992 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Customs, mysticism, Hebrew and Yiddish literature, and Jewish feminism.
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Book Synopsis Yom Kippur in Amsterdam by : Maxim D. Shrayer
Download or read book Yom Kippur in Amsterdam written by Maxim D. Shrayer and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2009-09-08 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether set in Maxim D. Shrayer’s native Russia or in North America and Western Europe, the eight stories in this collection explore emotionally intricate relationships that cross traditional boundaries of ethnicity, religion, and culture. Tracing the lives, obsessions, and aspirations of Jewish-Russian immigrants, these poignant, humorous, and tender stories create an expansive portrait of individuals struggling to come to terms with ghosts of their European pasts while simultaneously seeking to build new lives in their American present. The title story follows Jake Glaz, a young Jewish man apprehensive about marrying a Catholic woman. After realizing Erin will not convert, Jake leaves the United States to spend Yom Kippur in Amsterdam, "a beautiful place for a Jew to atone." In "Sonetchka" a literary scholar and his former girlfriend from Moscow reunite in her suburban Connecticut apartment. As they reminisce about their Soviet youth and quietly admire each other’s professional successes, both wrestle with the curious mix of prosperity, loneliness, and insecurity that defines their lives in the United States. Yom Kippur in Amsterdam takes the immigrant narrative into the twenty-first century. Emerging from the traditions of Isaac Babel, Vladimir Nabokov, and Isaac Bashevis Singer, Shrayer’s vibrant literary voice significantly contributes to the evolution of Jewish writing in America.
Book Synopsis Stories from Jewish Literature by : Union of American Hebrew Congregations
Download or read book Stories from Jewish Literature written by Union of American Hebrew Congregations and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis History of Jewish Literature. Vol. 7 by : I. Zinberg
Download or read book History of Jewish Literature. Vol. 7 written by I. Zinberg and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
