The Homeless Imagination in the Fiction of Israel Joshua Singer

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Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253113269
Total Pages : 172 pages
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Book Synopsis The Homeless Imagination in the Fiction of Israel Joshua Singer by : Anita Norich

Download or read book The Homeless Imagination in the Fiction of Israel Joshua Singer written by Anita Norich and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1991-12-22 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "... the most incisive study to date of the lesser-known but equally talented Singer: Israel Joshua... " -- Choice "... exceedingly well researched and written... " -- Shofar "This critical examination of the fiction of I.J. Singer is deft in its placement of the novels and short stories in historical context, but with new perspectives on that historical context." -- AJL Newsletter Although Israel Joshua Singer has existed, for English readers, in the shadow of his famous brother, Isaac Bashevis Singer, this book reasserts his rightful place at the center of Yiddish culture in Eastern Europe and America. A comprehensive bibliography of Singer's fiction, essays, and journalism is included.

The Young Judaean

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Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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East of Eden

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book East of Eden written by Israel Joshua Singer and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Journey to a Nineteenth-Century Shtetl

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Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0814337333
Total Pages : 543 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (143 download)

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Download or read book Journey to a Nineteenth-Century Shtetl written by Yekhezkel Kotik and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2008-04-09 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first annotated English edition of a classic early-twentieth-century Yiddish memoir that vividly describes Jewish life in a small Eastern European town. Originally published in Warsaw in 1913, this beautifully written memoir offers a panoramic description of the author’s experiences growing up in Kamieniec Litewski, a Polish shtetl connected with many important events in the history of nineteenth-century Eastern European Jewry. Although the way of life portrayed in this memoir has disappeared, the historical, cultural, and folkoric material it contains will be of major interest to historians and general readers alike. Kotik’s story is the saga of a wealthy and influential family through four generations. Masterfully interwoven in this tale are colorful vignettes featuring Kotik’s family and neighbors, including rabbis and zaddikim, merchants and the poor, hasidim and mitnaggedim, scholars and illiterates, believers and heretics, matchmakers and informers, and teachers and musicians. Stories of personal warmth and despair intermingle with descriptions of the rise and decline of Jewish communal institutions and descriptions or the relationships between Jews, Russian authorities, and Polish lords. Such events as the brutal decrees of Tsar Nicholas I, the abolishment of the Jewish communal board known as the Kahal, and the Polish revolts against Russia are reflected in the lives of these people. The English edition includes a complete translation of the first volume of memoirs and contains notes elucidating terms, names, and customs, as well as bibliographical references to the research literature. The book not only acquaints new readers with the talent of a unique storyteller but also presents an important document of Jewish life during a fascinating era.

Encyclopedia of Modern Jewish Culture

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134428642
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)

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Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of Modern Jewish Culture by : Glenda Abramson

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Modern Jewish Culture written by Glenda Abramson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-03-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of Modern Jewish Culture is an extensively updated revision of the very successful Companion to Jewish Culture published in 1989 and has now been updated throughout. Experts from all over the world contribute entries ranging from 200 to 1000 words broadly, covering the humanities, arts, social sciences, sport and popular culture, and 5000-word essays contextualize the shorter entries, and provide overviews to aspects of culture in the Jewish world. Ideal for student and general readers, the articles and biographies have been written by scholars and academics, musicians, artists and writers, and the book now contains up-to-date bibliographies, suggestions for further reading, comprehensive cross referencing, and a full index. This is a resource, no student of Jewish history will want to go without.

Memoirs of a Grandmother

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Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804775044
Total Pages : 386 pages
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Download or read book Memoirs of a Grandmother written by Pauline Wengeroff and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-25 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pauline Wengeroff, the only nineteenth-century Russian Jewish woman to publish a memoir, sets out to illuminate the "cultural history of the Jews of Russia" in the period of Jewish "enlightenment," when traditional culture began to disintegrate and Jews became modern. Wengeroff, a gifted writer and astute social observer, paints a rich portrait of both traditional and modernizing Jewish societies in an extraordinary way, focusing on women and the family and offering a gendered account (and indictment) of assimilation. In Volume 1 of Memoirs of a Grandmother, Wengeroff depicts traditional Jewish society, including the religious culture of women, during the reign of Tsar Nicholas I, who wished "his" Jews to be acculturated to modern Russian life.

The Brothers Ashkenazi

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Publisher : Other Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1590514025
Total Pages : 617 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book The Brothers Ashkenazi written by I.J. Singer and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2010-10-19 with total page 617 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Polish city of Lodz, the brothers Ashkenazi grew up very differently in talent and in temperament. Max, the firstborn, is fiercely intelligent and conniving, determined to succeed financially by any means necessary. Slower-witted Jacob is strong, handsome, and charming but without great purpose in life. While Max is driven by ambition and greed to be more successful than his brother, Jacob is drawn to easy living and decadence. As waves of industrialism and capitalism flood the city, the brothers and their families are torn apart by the clashing impulses of old piety and new skepticism, traditional ways and burgeoning appetites, and the hatred that grows between faiths, citizens, and classes. Despite all attempts to control their destinies, the brothers are caught up by forces of history, love, and fate, which shape and, ultimately, break them. First published in 1936, The Brothers Ashkenazi quickly became a best seller as a sprawling family saga. Breaking away from the introspective shtetl tales of classic nineteenth-century writers, I. J. Singer brought to Yiddish literature the multilayered plots, large casts of characters, and narrative sweep of the traditional European novel. Walking alongside such masters as Zola, Flaubert, and Tolstoy, I . J. Singer’s premodernist social novel stands as a masterpiece of storytelling.

Shared Histories

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Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820342998
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Shared Histories written by Virginia Dickinson Reynolds and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2011-08-15 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mother writes to her faraway daughter: "I keep all your letters. Someday you might want to do something with them." Those words foretold Shared Histories, although neither woman would live to see the book. This is the first known published collection of letters to include correspondence between civilian family members on both sides of the Atlantic during World War II. Separated for most of their adult lives, Virginia Dickinson Reynolds and her daughter, Virginia Potter, wrote to each other for nearly forty years. This selection from their long exchange is filled with unguarded reflections on current events, fashion, food, travel, domestic life, leisure, and the upheaval of war. Readers will also encounter various prominent English people and members of the aristocracy, the American southern elite, and such familiar names as Martha Graham, Walt Disney, and Ellen Glasgow. Both women were born in Richmond, Virginia, and raised in privileged circumstances. Virginia Dickinson Reynolds was the child of a Confederate Army officer and was also a distant cousin of poet Emily Dickinson. Virginia Potter traveled widely until she married an English Army officer and settled in his country. The women's intensely close bond shines through Shared Histories as, from time to time, do their class-conscious, Anglo-Saxon sensibilities. Sometimes poignant, sometimes bristling, always candid, these letters portray private worlds of tradition confronted with global change.

Scum

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Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374529078
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (745 download)

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Book Synopsis Scum by : Isaac Bashevis Singer

Download or read book Scum written by Isaac Bashevis Singer and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-05-16 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authentic literary great, Singer was an author whose extraordinary talents won him a worldwide audience. And with this impressive novel, he proved that he was at the height of his creative power until his recent death at age 86. Scum evokes the teeming life of 1906 Warsaw's backstreets. Max Barabander, distraught over the recent death of his son, flees the life of wealth and respectability he has attained in Buenos Aires, to return to the poverty and shadows of his youth spent in Warsaw. He fears impotence which leads him to the pursuit of mindless sex with five different women who view him only as an escape from their drab lives. The author recalls the teeming life of 1906 Jewish Warsaw in this impressive novel of changing mores and values. . .

Studies in Contemporary Jewry

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195354680
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Book Synopsis Studies in Contemporary Jewry by : Ezra Mendelsohn

Download or read book Studies in Contemporary Jewry written by Ezra Mendelsohn and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1997-01-30 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary Strategies: Jewish Texts and Contexts collects essays on Jewish literature which deal with "the manifold ways that literary texts reveal their authors' attitudes toward their own Jewish identity and toward diverse aspects of the 'Jewish question.'" Essays in this volume explore the tension between Israeli and Diaspora identities, and between those who write in Hebrew or Yiddish and those who write in other "non-Jewish" languages. The essays also explore the question of how Jewish writers remember history in their "search for a useable past." From essays on Jabotinsky's virtually unknown plays to Philip Roth's novels, this book provides a strong overview of contemporary themes in Jewish literary studies.

The History of the Yiddish Art Theatre Movement in New York from 1918 to 1940

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 948 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)

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Book Synopsis The History of the Yiddish Art Theatre Movement in New York from 1918 to 1940 by : David S. Lifson

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Jewish Theatre

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004173358
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Book Synopsis Jewish Theatre by : Edna Nahshon

Download or read book Jewish Theatre written by Edna Nahshon and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While a frequently used term, Jewish Theatre has become a contested concept that defies precise definition. Is it theatre by Jews? For Jews? About Jews? Though there are no easy answers for these questions, "Jewish Theatre: A Global View," contributes greatly to the conversation by offering an impressive collection of original essays written by an international cadre of noted scholars from Europe, the United States, and Israel. The essays discuss historical and current texts and performance practices, covering a wide gamut of genres and traditions.

Eight Lessons in Love

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Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826211231
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (112 download)

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Book Synopsis Eight Lessons in Love by : Mark Spilka

Download or read book Eight Lessons in Love written by Mark Spilka and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical study of eight fictional treatments of domestic violence, combining professional understanding of domestic violence with fictional attempts to cope with the theme. Includes complete stories by Ernest Hemingway, John Cheever, George Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, John Steinbeck, Isaac Bashevis Singer, James Joyce, and Ann Petry. For students and academics. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Holocaust Literature: Lerner to Zychlinsky, index

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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415929844
Total Pages : 778 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (298 download)

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Book Synopsis Holocaust Literature: Lerner to Zychlinsky, index by : S. Lillian Kremer

Download or read book Holocaust Literature: Lerner to Zychlinsky, index written by S. Lillian Kremer and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2003 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Review: "This encyclopedia offers an authoritative and comprehensive survey of the important writers and works that form the literature about the Holocaust and its consequences. The collection is alphabetically arranged and consists of high-quality biocritical essays on 309 writers who are first-, second-, and third-generation survivors or important thinkers and spokespersons on the Holocaust. An essential literary reference work, this publication is an important addition to the genre and a solid value for public and academic libraries."--"The Top 20 Reference Titles of the Year," American Libraries, May 2004

Understanding Jewish Theology

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Publisher : Global Academic Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781586840907
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (49 download)

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Book Synopsis Understanding Jewish Theology by : Jacob Neusner

Download or read book Understanding Jewish Theology written by Jacob Neusner and published by Global Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the religious experience of Judaism through the perceptions and teachings of ordinary Jews and the creative elite.

Yiddish in Israel

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Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253045177
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Book Synopsis Yiddish in Israel by : Rachel Rojanski

Download or read book Yiddish in Israel written by Rachel Rojanski and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yiddish in Israel: A History challenges the commonly held view that Yiddish was suppressed or even banned by Israeli authorities for ideological reasons, offering instead a radical new interpretation of the interaction between Yiddish and Israeli Hebrew cultures. Author Rachel Rojanski tells the compelling and yet unknown story of how Yiddish, the most widely used Jewish language in the pre-Holocaust world, fared in Zionist Israel, the land of Hebrew. Following Yiddish in Israel from the proclamation of the State until today, Rojanski reveals that although Israeli leadership made promoting Hebrew a high priority, it did not have a definite policy on Yiddish. The language's varying fortune through the years was shaped by social and political developments, and the cultural atmosphere in Israel. Public perception of the language and its culture, the rise of identity politics, and political and financial interests all played a part. Using a wide range of archival sources, newspapers, and Yiddish literature, Rojanski follows the Israeli Yiddish scene through the history of the Yiddish press, Yiddish theater, early Israeli Yiddish literature, and high Yiddish culture. With compassion, she explores the tensions during Israel's early years between Yiddish writers and activists and Israel's leaders, most of whom were themselves Eastern European Jews balancing their love of Yiddish with their desire to promote Hebrew. Finally Rojanski follows Yiddish into the 21st century, telling the story of the revived interest in Yiddish among Israeli-born children of Holocaust survivors as they return to the language of their parents.

Encounter

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Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encounter written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: