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The Hidden Isaac Bashevis Singer

Author : Seth L. Wolitz
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292757905
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book The Hidden Isaac Bashevis Singer written by Seth L. Wolitz and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2013-12-06 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nobel Prize-winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer stands virtually alone among prominent writers for being more widely known through translations of his work than through the original texts. Yet readers and critics of the Yiddish originals have long pointed out that the English versions are generally shortened, often shorn of much description and religious matter, and their perspectives and denouements are significantly altered. In short, they turn the Yiddish author into a Jewish-American English writer, detached from of his Eastern European Jewish literary and cultural roots. By contrast, this collection of essays by leading Yiddish scholars seeks to recover the authentic voice and vision of the writer known to his Yiddish readers as Yitskhok Bashevis. The essays are grouped around four themes: The Yiddish language and the Yiddish cultural experience in Bashevis's writings Thematic approaches to the study of Bashevis's literature Bashevis's interface with other times and cultures Interpretations of Bashevis's autobiographical writings A special feature of this volume is the inclusion of Joseph Sherman's new, faithful translation of a chapter from Bashevis's Yiddish "underworld" novel Yarme and Keyle.

The Hidden Isaac Bashevis Singer

Author : Seth L. Wolitz
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 029279147X
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book The Hidden Isaac Bashevis Singer written by Seth L. Wolitz and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nobel Prize-winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer stands virtually alone among prominent writers for being more widely known through translations of his work than through the original texts. Yet readers and critics of the Yiddish originals have long pointed out that the English versions are generally shortened, often shorn of much description and religious matter, and their perspectives and denouements are significantly altered. In short, they turn the Yiddish author into a Jewish-American English writer, detached from of his Eastern European Jewish literary and cultural roots. By contrast, this collection of essays by leading Yiddish scholars seeks to recover the authentic voice and vision of the writer known to his Yiddish readers as Yitskhok Bashevis. The essays are grouped around four themes: The Yiddish language And The Yiddish cultural experience in Bashevis's writings Thematic approaches To The study of Bashevis's literature Bashevis's interface with other times and cultures Interpretations of Bashevis's autobiographical writings A special feature of this volume is the inclusion of Joseph Sherman's new, faithful translation of a chapter from Bashevis's Yiddish "underworld" novel "Yarme and Keyle". Seth L. Wolitz holds the L. D., Marie, and Edwin Gale Chair of Judaic Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is also Professor of French, Slavic, and Comparative Literature.

Isaac B. Singer

Author : Florence Noiville
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466806621
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Isaac B. Singer written by Florence Noiville and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2006-10-17 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991) is widely recognized as the most popular Yiddish writer of the twentieth century. His translated body of work, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978, is beloved around the world. But although Singer was a very public and outgoing figure, much about his personal life remains unknown. In Isaac Bashevis Singer, Florence Noiville offers a glimpse into the world of this much-beloved but persistently elusive figure. An astonishingly prolific writer, Singer was able to recreate the lost world of Jewish Eastern Europe and also to describe the immigrant experience in America. Drawing heavily upon folklore, Singer's work is noted for its mystical strain. But he was also heavily concerned with the problems of his own day, and through his novels and stories runs a strong undercurrent of social consciousness. Unafraid to celebrate peasant life, Singer was often accused of being vulgar, yet he was also recognized for a deeply moral sensibility. And much like his work, Singer's personal life was marked by contradiction: the son of a Rabbi, he struggled with warring currents of devotion and doubt. Solicitous of affection, he was also known for his philandering. Devoted to the notion of family, he abandoned his own son before the Second World War. Drawing on letters, personal recollections, and interviews with Singer's friends, family, and publishing contemporaries, Florence Noiville speaks to these paradoxes. More appreciation than comprehensive biography, her narrative is rich in detail about the people, places, and ideas that shaped Singer's world. A remarkably vivid portrait of the man and his work emerges—a compassionate, vivid, and insightful vision of one of the twentieth century's greatest storytellers.

Shosha

Author : Isaac Bashevis Singer
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780374524807
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Shosha written by Isaac Bashevis Singer and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1996-04-30 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shosha is a hauntingly lyrical love story set in Jewish Warsaw on the eve of its annihilation. Aaron Greidinger, an aspiring Yiddish writer and the son of a distinguished Hasidic rabbi, struggles to be true to his art when faced with the chance at riches and a passport to America. But as he and the rest of the Writers' Club wait in horror for Nazi Germany to invade Poland, Aaron rediscovers Shosha, his childhood love-still living on Krochmalna Street, still mysteriously childlike herself-who has been waiting for him all these years.

The Slave

Author : Isaac Bashevis Singer
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780374506803
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book The Slave written by Isaac Bashevis Singer and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1988-10 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Hebrew legend in which a messenger from God sells himself into slavery in order to help a poor scribe.

Shadows on the Hudson

Author : Isaac Bashevis Singer
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780374531225
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (312 download)

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Download or read book Shadows on the Hudson written by Isaac Bashevis Singer and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-04-29 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Upper West Side to Miami's pastel resorts, "Shadows on the Hudson" traces the intertwined destiny of survivors in the aftermath of the Holocaust.

In My Father's Court

Author : Isaac Bashevis Singer
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374505926
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (745 download)

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Download or read book In My Father's Court written by Isaac Bashevis Singer and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1966 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translation of: Mayn otaotn's beas-din-shotub.

Textual Transmission in Contemporary Jewish Cultures

Author : Avriel Bar-Levav
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197516491
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)

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Download or read book Textual Transmission in Contemporary Jewish Cultures written by Avriel Bar-Levav and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-27 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jewish culture places a great deal of emphasis on texts and their means of transmission. At various points in Jewish history, the primary mode of transmission has changed in response to political, geographical, technological, and cultural shifts. Contemporary textual transmission in Jewish culture has been influenced by secularization, the return to Hebrew and the emergence of modern Yiddish, and the new centers of Jewish life in the United States and in Israel, as well as by advancements in print technology and the invention of the Internet. Volume XXXI of Studies in Contemporary Jewry deals with various aspects of textual transmission in Jewish culture in the last two centuries. Essays in this volume examine old and new kinds of media and their meanings; new modes of transmission in fields such as Jewish music; and the struggle to continue transmitting texts under difficult political circumstances. Two essays analyze textual transmission in the works of giants of modern Jewish literature: S.Y. Agnon, in Hebrew, and Isaac Bashevis Singer, in Yiddish. Other essays discuss paratexts in the East, print cultures in the West, and the organization of knowledge in libraries and encyclopedias.

Never Better!

Author : Miriam Udel
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472053051
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Never Better! written by Miriam Udel and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2016-04-18 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating study of the picaresque protagonists of Yiddish literature and their minority authors

Narrative Faith

Author : David Stromberg
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1611496659
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book Narrative Faith written by David Stromberg and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-10-18 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narrative Faith engages with the dynamics of doubt and faith to consider how literary works with complex structures explore different moral visions. The study describes a literary petite histoire that problematizes faith in two ways—both in the themes presented in the story, and the strategies used to tell that story—leading readers to doubt the narrators and their narratives. Starting with Dostoevsky’s Demons (1872), a literary work that has captivated and confounded critics and readers for well over a century, the study examines Albert Camus’s The Plague (1947) and Isaac Bashevis Singer’s The Penitent (1973/83), works by twentieth-century authors who similarly intensify questions of faith through narrators that generate doubt. The two postwar novelists share parallel preoccupations with Dostoevsky’s art and similar personal philosophies, while their works constitute two literary responses to the cataclysm of the Second World War—extending questions of faith into the current era. The book’s last section looks beyond narrative inquiry to consider themes of confession and revision that appear in all three novels and open onto horizons beyond faith and doubt—to hope.

Yentl

Author : Leah Napolin
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780573618420
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (184 download)

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Download or read book Yentl written by Leah Napolin and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1977 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the story of an Ashkenazi Jewish girl in Poland who decides to dress and live like a boy so that she can receive an education in Talmudic law after her father dies.

Shtetl

Author : Jeffrey Shandler
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813562740
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book Shtetl written by Jeffrey Shandler and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-15 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Yiddish, shtetl simply means “town.” How does such an unassuming word come to loom so large in modern Jewish culture, with a proliferation of uses and connotations? By examining the meaning of shtetl, Jeffrey Shandler asks how Jewish life in provincial towns in Eastern Europe has become the subject of extensive creativity, memory, and scholarship from the early modern era in European history to the present. In the post-Holocaust era, the shtetl looms large in public culture as the epitome of a bygone traditional Jewish communal life. People now encounter the Jewish history of these towns through an array of cultural practices, including fiction, documentary photography, film, memoirs, art, heritage tourism, and political activism. At the same time, the shtetl attracts growing scholarly interest, as historians, social scientists, literary critics, and others seek to understand both the complex reality of life in provincial towns and the nature of its wide-ranging remembrance. Shtetl: A Vernacular Intellectual History traces the trajectory of writing about these towns—by Jews and non-Jews, residents and visitors, researchers, novelists, memoirists, journalists and others—to demonstrate how the Yiddish word for “town” emerged as a key word in Jewish culture and studies. Shandler proposes that the intellectual history of the shtetl is best approached as an exemplar of engaging Jewish vernacularity, and that the variable nature of this engagement, far from being a drawback, is central to the subject’s enduring interest.

Yiddish

Author : Jeffrey Shandler
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190651989
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Yiddish written by Jeffrey Shandler and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-19 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most widely spoken Jewish language on the eve of the Holocaust, Yiddish continues to play a significant role in Jewish life today, from Hasidim for whom it is a language of daily life to avant-garde performers, political activists, and LGBTQ writers turning to Yiddish for inspiration. Yiddish: Biography of a Language presents the story of this centuries-old language, the defining vernacular of Ashkenazi Jews, from its origins to the present. Jeffrey Shandler tells the multifaceted history of Yiddish in the form of a biographical profile, revealing surprising insights through a series of thematic chapters. He addresses key aspects of Yiddish as the language of a diasporic population, whose speakers have always used more than one language. As the vernacular of a marginalized minority, Yiddish has often been held in low regard compared to other languages, and its legitimacy as a language has been questioned. But some devoted Yiddish speakers have championed the language as embodying the essence of Jewish culture and a defining feature of a Jewish national identity. Despite predictions of the demise of Yiddish-dating back well before half of its speakers were murdered during the Holocaust-the language leads a vibrant, evolving life to this day.

Jewish Veganism and Vegetarianism

Author : Jacob Ari Labendz
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438473621
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Jewish Veganism and Vegetarianism written by Jacob Ari Labendz and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2019-04-01 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent decades, as more Jews have adopted plant-based lifestyles, Jewish vegan and vegetarian movements have become increasingly prominent. This book explores the intellectual, religious, and historical roots of veganism and vegetarianism among Jews and presents compelling new directions in Jewish thought, ethics, and foodways. The contributors, including scholars, rabbis, and activists, explore how Judaism has inspired Jews to eschew animal products and how such choices, even when not directly inspired by Judaism, have enriched and helped define Jewishness. Individually, and as a collection, the chapters in this book provide an opportunity to meditate on what may make veganism and vegetarianism particularly Jewish, as well as the potential distinctiveness of Jewish veganism and vegetarianism. The authors also examine the connections between Jewish veganism and vegetarianism and other movements, while calling attention to divisions among Jewish vegans and vegetarians, to the specific challenges of fusing Jewishness and a plant-based lifestyle, and to the resistance Jewish vegans and vegetarians can face from parts of the Jewish community. The book's various perspectives represent the cultural, theological, and ideological diversity among Jews invested in such conversations and introduce prominent debates within their movements.

Isaac Bashevis Singer: His Work and his World

Author : Hugh Denman
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004494480
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Isaac Bashevis Singer: His Work and his World written by Hugh Denman and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-12-28 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A quarter of a century after Isaac Bashevis Singer was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature it is time to take stock of his achievement. Penetrating studies of his fictional and autobiographical works by leading scholars in the field reveal that for all the acclaim he has received on the basis of the English versions of his works, no adequate evaluation of Bashevis's significance can be made without careful examination of the original Yiddish texts. Critical readings assess inter alia his themes and motifs, the impact of Kabbalah on his work, reflections of society in his original Polish homeland as well as his place within the context of contemporary Jewish American letters and the canon of modern Yiddish and Hebrew writing.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Author : Isaac Bashevis Singer
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9780878055906
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (559 download)

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Download or read book Isaac Bashevis Singer written by Isaac Bashevis Singer and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1992 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collections of interviews with notable modern writers

The Ethics of Literary Communication

Author : Roger D. Sell
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027271682
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book The Ethics of Literary Communication written by Roger D. Sell and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2013-09-25 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Viewing literature as one among other forms of communication, Roger D. Sell and his colleagues evaluate writer-respondent relationships according to the same ethical criterion as applies for dialogue of any other kind. In a nutshell: Are writers and readers respecting each other’s human autonomy? If and when the answer here is “Yes!”, Sell’s team describe the communication that is going on as ‘genuine’. In this latest book, they offer new illustrations of what they mean by this, and ask whether genuineness is compatible with communicational directness and communicational indirectness. Is there a risk, for instance, that a very direct manner of writing could be unacceptably coercive, or that a more indirect manner could be irresponsible, or positively deceitful? The book’s overall conclusion is: “Not necessarily!” A directness which is truthful and stimulates free discussion does respect the integrity of the other person. And the same is true of an indirectness which encourages readers themselves to contribute to the construction and assessment of ideas, stories and experiences – sometimes literary indirectness may allow greater scope for genuineness than does the directness of a non-literary letter. By way of illustrating these points, the book opens up new lines of inquiry into a wide range of literary texts from Britain, Germany, France, Denmark, Poland, Romania, and the United States.