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Author : Milton Hindus
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN 13 : 9780876853658
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (536 download)
Download or read book Charles Reznikoff written by Milton Hindus and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 1977 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical essay on the work of poet Charles Reznikoff.
Author : Charles Reznikoff
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN 13 : 9781574232035
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)
Download or read book The Poems of Charles Reznikoff written by Charles Reznikoff and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 2005 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Reznikoff (1894-1976), the son of Russian garment workers, was an American original: a blood-and-bone New Yorker, a collector of images and stories who walked the city from the Bronx to the Battery and breathed the soul of the Jewish immigrant experience into a lifetime of poetry. He wrote narrative poems based on Old Testament sources. Above all, he wrote spare, intensely visual, epigrammatic poems, a kind of urban haiku. The language of these short poems is as plain as bread and salt, their imagery as crisp and unambiguous as a Charles Sheeler photograph. But their meaning is only hinted at: it is there in the selection of details, and in the music of the verse. Reznikoff was sincere and objective, a poet of great feeling who strove to honor the world by describing it precisely. He also strove to keep his feelings out of his poetry. He did not confess, he did not pose, he did not cultivate a myth of himself. Instead he created art-an unadorned art in praise of the world that God and men have made-and invited readers to bring their own feelings to it. In an age of ephemera, of first drafts rushed into print and soon forgotten, Reznikoff's poetry is a sturdy, well-wrought thing-"a girder, still itself / among the rubble." A timeless testament-impersonal, incorruptible, undeniably American-it will survive every change in literary fashion. Book jacket.
Author : Josh Lambert
Publisher : Jewish Publication Society
ISBN 13 : 0827610025
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (276 download)
Download or read book American Jewish Fiction written by Josh Lambert and published by Jewish Publication Society. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new volume in the JPS Guides series is a fiction reader?s dream: a guide to 125 remarkable works of fiction. The selection includes a wide range of classic American Jewish novels and story collections, from 1867 to the present, selected by the author in consultation with a panel of literary scholars and book industry professionals. Roth, Mailer, Kellerman, Chabon, Ozick, Heller, and dozens of other celebrated writers are here, with their most notable works. Each entry includes a book summary, with historical context and background on the author. Suggestions for further reading point to other books that match readers? interests and favorite writers. And the introduction is a fascinating exploration of the history of and important themes in American Jewish Fiction, illustrating how Jewish writing in the U.S. has been in constant dialogue with popular entertainment and intellectual life. Included in this guide are lists of book award winners; recommended anthologies; title, author, and subject indexes; and more.
Author : Charles Reznikoff
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN 13 : 9781574232080
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Holocaust written by Charles Reznikoff and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 2007 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Holocaust poet Charles Reznikoff's subject is people's suffering at the hand of another. His source materials are the U.S. government's record of the trials of the Nazi criminals before the Nuremberg Military Tribunal and the transcripts of the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem. Except for the twelve part titles, none of the words here are Reznikoff's own: instead he has created, through selection, arrangement, and the rhythms of the testimony set as verse on the page, a poem of witness by the perpetrators and the survivors of the Holocaust. He lets the terrible history unfold--in history's own words.
Author : Ron Padgett
Publisher : Geoffrey Young
ISBN 13 : 9780935724608
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (246 download)
Download or read book Ted written by Ron Padgett and published by Geoffrey Young. This book was released on 1993 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LC copy inscribed by the author: For Linda, with love, Ron.
Author : S. Lillian Kremer
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415929844
Total Pages : 778 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (298 download)
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
Author : Hasia R. Diner
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 081472020X
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)
Download or read book 1929 written by Hasia R. Diner and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2013-08-12 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year 1929 represents a major turning point in interwar Jewish society, proving to be a year when Jews, regardless of where they lived, saw themselves affected by developments that took place around the world, as the crises endured by other Jews became part of the transnational Jewish consciousness. In the United States, the stock market crash brought lasting economic, social, and ideological changes to the Jewish community and limited its ability to support humanitarian and nationalist projects in other countries. In Palestine, the anti-Jewish riots in Hebron and other towns underscored the vulnerability of the Zionist enterprise and ignited heated discussions among various Jewish political groups about the wisdom of establishing a Jewish state on its historical site. At the same time, in the Soviet Union, the consolidation of power in the hands of Stalin created a much more dogmatic climate in the international Communist movement, including its Jewish branches. Featuring a sparkling array of scholars of Jewish history, 1929 surveys the Jewish world in one year offering clear examples of the transnational connections which linked Jews to each other—from politics, diplomacy, and philanthropy to literature, culture, and the fate of Yiddish—regardless of where they lived. Taken together, the essays in 1929 argue that, whether American, Soviet, German, Polish, or Palestinian, Jews throughout the world lived in a global context. Hasia Diner is Paul S. and Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish History, Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University. She is the author of the award-winning We Remember with Reverence and Love: American Jews and the Myth of Silence after the Holocaust, 1945-1962 (NYU Press, 2009). Gennady Estraikh is Associate Professor of Yiddish Studies, Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University. In the Goldstein-Goren Series in American Jewish History
Author : Charles Reznikoff
Publisher : Black Sparrow Press
ISBN 13 : 9781567925319
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (253 download)
Download or read book Testimony written by Charles Reznikoff and published by Black Sparrow Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major work by an essential American poet, published in full for the first time. Available again for the first time since 1978-and complete in one volume for the first time ever-Charles Reznikoff'sTestimonyis a lost masterpiece, a leg- endary book that stands alongside Louis Zukofsky's "A" and William Carlos Williams'sPatersonas a milestone of modern American poetry. Taking as its raw material the voices of witnesses, victims, and perpetrators discovered by the author in criminal court transcripts, Reznikoff's book sets forth a stark panorama of late- 19th- and early 20th-century America-the underside of the Gilded Age, beset by racism and casual violence, poverty and disease-in a radically stripped-down lan- guage of almost unbearable intensity. This edition also includes Reznikoff 's prose studies for the poem, unavailable to readers since the 1930s, and a new introduction by essayist Eliot Weinberger.
Author : Thomas Merton
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393040692
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Thomas Merton and James Laughlin written by Thomas Merton and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1997 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cloistered in a remote Kentucky monastery, Thomas Merton struggled as a young man to reconcile his preferred contemplative life and his public passion for writing. Here is the remarkable development of Thomas Merton monk, poet, and social critic as documented in nearly 30 years' of correspondence with his mentor and publisher, James Laughlin.
Author : Hadley Cantril
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000679764
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)
Download or read book The Jewish Idea and Its Enemies written by Hadley Cantril and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-08-21 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume deals with the modern fate of the traditional conception of Jews as a covenanted people chosen to receive the Law, whose ultimate purpose is contributing to the universal salvation of mankind. The author shows how, under the influence of liberalism, rationalism, relativism, and other Enlightenment ideologies, this idea was distorted, denied, inverted, yet never entirely obliterated. In his discussions of modern Jewish thinkers and writers and the ideological and political struggles of Zionism and the state of Israel against enemies from without and from within, Alexander shows that the ancient idea of covenant is still alive today, if only in the assumption that Jewish life can lead somewhere so long as Jews remember that it began somewhere. Ranging from literary criticism and the history of ideas to journalism and politics, the book is unified by a point of view unabashedly espousing the Jewish idea and challenging its enemies.
Author : Rita J. Simon
Publisher : VNR AG
ISBN 13 : 9780275957315
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (573 download)
Download or read book In the Golden Land written by Rita J. Simon and published by VNR AG. This book was released on 1997-03-25 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1870 to 1900, over a half million Russian Jews came to the United States. Russian Jewish emigration had ceased by the 1920s due to the effects of the First World War, the Bolshevik Revolution, and the Quota Acts, but a century later, Jews from the former Soviet Union began to emigrate in large numbers. This detailed account describes the motivations of Russian and Soviet Jews for leaving their homeland and their subsequent adjustments to life in the United States. Simon, a sociologist, provides insight into who these Jewish immigrants were and are, what they accomplished, and how they have been viewed.
Author : Ezra Pound
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811210133
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Pound/Zukofsky written by Ezra Pound and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1987 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pound / Zukofsky is the fifth volume in the ongoing series, The Correspondence of Ezra Pound. Pound (1885-1972) and Zukofsky (1904-1978) met only three times: in Rapallo, Italy, for a few weeks in 1933; for a few hours in New York, in 1939; and briefly again at St. Elizabeths Hospital, in Washington, D.C., in 1954. Yet by the time of their first meeting, they had already exchanged almost 300 letters. over half of their total correspondence. The two poets knew each other quite literally as men of letters.
Author : Chaim Stern
Publisher : CCAR Press
ISBN 13 : 0881232378
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (812 download)
Download or read book On the Doorposts of Your House: Prayers and Ceremonies for the Jewish Home written by Chaim Stern and published by CCAR Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revised edition of this beloved volume includes a wealth of innovation and traditional readings for personal meditations and family home-based rituals. Doorposts provides material for the whole Jewish year and life cycle, from consecrating a new house, to celebrating a birthday or baby-naming, to welcoming holy days and festivals. Contemporary, gender-inclusive language throughout. Now includes updated translation and transliteration based on the Mishkan T'filah: A Reform Siddur and new design. This ebook makes a perfect gift for confirmations, teachers, weddings, and housewarmings. Published by CCAR Press, a division of the Central Conference of American Rabbis
Author : Gerard Manley Hopkins
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811204798
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Gerard Manley Hopkins written by Gerard Manley Hopkins and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1973 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The larger part of this classic symposium on the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins was originally assembled as a special number of The Kenyon Review to celebrate in 1944 the centenary of the poet's birth, and then published in the New Directions 'Makers of Modern Literature' series.
Author : George Oppen
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811218054
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (18 download)
Download or read book New Collected Poems written by George Oppen and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "George Oppen's New Collected Poems gathers in one volume all of the poet's books published in his lifetime (1908-84), as well as his previously uncollected poems and a selection of his unpublished work." "Editor Michael Davidson has written an introduction to the poet's life and work and supplies generous notes that give readers a deeper understanding of the background of the individual books and references in the poems. Essayist Eliot Weinberger provides a personal remembrance of the poet in his preface, "Oppen Then." This new, revised paperback edition also includes an extraordinary CD of the poet reading from each of his poetry books. Culled from obscure, rarely heard recordings of Oppen when he was in New York, San Francisco, and London at different times in his life, the CD adds a unique dimension to the lifework of one of America's finest poets."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Chaim Stern
Publisher : CCAR Press
ISBN 13 : 9780881230437
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (34 download)
Download or read book על מזזות ביתך written by Chaim Stern and published by CCAR Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revised and expanded edition of the classic home prayerbook Gates of the House includes a wealth of new readings and meditations for private and family devotions on all occasions.
Author : Joshua Logan Wall
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421443805
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Situating Poetry written by Joshua Logan Wall and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2022-10-11 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A retelling of American modernism through the lines of solidarity and division within and among ethnic and religious identities found in poetry. What happens if we approach the reading and writing of poetry not as an individual act, but as a public one? Answering this question challenges common assumptions about modern poetry and requires that we explore the important questions that define genre: Where is this poem situated, and how did it get there? Joshua Logan Wall's Situating Poetry studies five poets of the New York literary scene rarely considered together: James Weldon Johnson, Charles Reznikoff, Lola Ridge, Louis Zukofsky, and Robert Hayden. Charting their works and careers from 1910–1940, Wall illustrates how these politically marginalized writers from drastically different religious backgrounds wrestled with their status as American outsiders. These poets produced a secularized version of America in which poetry, rather than God, governed individual obligations to one another across multiethnic barriers. Adopting a multiethnic and pluralist approach, Wall argues that each of these poets—two Black, two Jewish, and one Irish-American anarchist—shares a desire to create more truly democratic communities through art and through the covenantal publics created by their poems despite otherwise sitting uncomfortably, at best, within a more standard literary history. In this unique account of American modernist poetics, religious pluralism creates a lens through which to consider the bounds of solidarity and division within and among ethnic identities and their corresponding literatures.
