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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “david g roskies”
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  • Holocaust Literature

    A History and Guide

    by David G. Roskies, Naomi Diamant ...
    Series series The Tauber Institute Series for the Study of European Jewry
    What is Holocaust literature? When does it begin and how is it changing? Is there an essential core that consists of diaries, eyewitness accounts of the concentration camps, and tales of individual survival? Is it the same everywhere: West and East, in Australia as in the Americas, in poetry as in prose? Is this literature sacred and separate, or can it be studied alongside other responses to ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Yiddishlands

    A Memoir, Second Edition

    by David G. Roskies ...
    A remarkable family story and a whirlwind tour of Yiddish culture from 1906 to the present—updated in a second edition.This lively and irreverent memoir explores the settings where Yiddish—a language of song, rebellion, and eternal longing—has thrived: in the cabaret and café, the kitchen and classroom, the literary salon and mystical commune, the partisan brigade and on pilgrimage to Poland. ... Read more

    $29.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Yiddishlands

    A Memoir

    by David G. Roskies ...
    A renowned scholar looks back on his life and the life of his mother, tracing the Yiddish experience through major historical events of the last century.A rich, sweeping memoir by David G. Roskies, Yiddishlands proceeds from the premise that Yiddish culture is spread out among many different people and geographic areas and transmitted through story, song, study, and the family. Roskies leads ... Read more

    $29.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Voices from the Warsaw Ghetto

    Writing Our History

    Edited by David G. Roskies ...
    Series series Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization
    The powerful writings and art of Jews living in the Warsaw GhettoHidden in metal containers and buried underground during World War II, these works from the Warsaw Ghetto record the Holocaust from the perspective of its first interpreters, the victims themselves. Gathered clandestinely by an underground ghetto collective called Oyneg Shabes, the collection of reportage, diaries, prose, artwork, ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Raising Secular Jews

    Yiddish Schools and Their Periodicals for American Children, 1917–1950

    by Naomi Prawer Kadar ...
    Series series Brandeis Series in American Jewish History, Culture, and Life
    This unique literary study of Yiddish children’s periodicals casts new light on secular Yiddish schools in America in the first half of the twentieth century. Rejecting the traditional religious education of the Talmud Torahs and congregational schools, these Yiddish schools chose Yiddish itself as the primary conduit of Jewish identity and culture. Four Yiddish school networks emerged, which ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

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    A Biography

    by Martin E Marty ...
    Series series Lives of Great Religious Books
    For fascination, influence, inspiration, and controversy, Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Letters and Papers from Prison is unmatched by any other book of Christian reflection written in the twentieth century. A Lutheran pastor and theologian, Bonhoeffer spent two years in Nazi prisons before being executed at age thirty-nine, just a month before the German surrender, for his role in the plot to kill Hitler ... Read more

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  • Yiddish

    The Biography of a Language

    by Miriam Weinstein ...
    This first-ever biography on Yiddish is “a charming and highly readable history of the language” that “recreates the sound of a world . . . gone forever” (The Washington Post)For a thousand years Yiddish, was the glue that held a people together. Through the intimacies of daily use, it linked European Jews with their heroic past, their spiritual universe, their increasingly far-flung relations. In ... Read more

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  • Elie Wiesel

    Jewish, Literary, and Moral Perspectives

    by Steven T. Katz, Alan Rosen ...
    "Illuminating . . . 24 academic essays covering Wiesel's interpretations of the Bible, retellings of Talmudic stories . . . his post-Holocaust theology, and more." — Publishers WeeklyNobel Peace Prize recipient Elie Wiesel, best known for his writings on the Holocaust, is also the accomplished author of novels, essays, tales, and plays as well as portraits of seminal figures in Jewish life and ... Read more

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  • Trauma in First Person

    Diary Writing During the Holocaust

    by Amos Goldberg ...
    An examination of what can be learned by looking at the journals and diaries of Jews living during the Holocaust.What are the effects of radical oppression on the human psyche? What happens to the inner self of the powerless and traumatized victim, especially during times of widespread horror? In this bold and deeply penetrating book, Amos Goldberg addresses diary writing by Jews under Nazi ... Read more

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  • No Joke

    Making Jewish Humor

    by Ruth R. Wisse ...
    Series series Library of Jewish Ideas
    Humor is the most celebrated of all Jewish responses to modernity. In this book, Ruth Wisse evokes and applauds the genius of spontaneous Jewish joking--as well as the brilliance of comic masterworks by writers like Heinrich Heine, Sholem Aleichem, Isaac Babel, S. Y. Agnon, Isaac Bashevis Singer, and Philip Roth. At the same time, Wisse draws attention to the precarious conditions that call Jewish ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • On the Eve

    The Jews of Europe Before the Second World War

    by Bernard Wasserstein ...
    On the Eve is the portrait of a world on the brink of annihilation. In this provocative book, Bernard Wasserstein presents a new and disturbing interpretation of the collapse of European Jewish civilization even before the Nazi onslaught.In the 1930s, as Europe spiraled toward the Second World War, the continent’s Jews faced an existential crisis. The harsh realities of the age—anti-Semitic ... Read more

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  • Meïr Aaron Goldschmidt and the Poetics of Jewish Fiction

    by David Gantt Gurley ...
    Series series Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art
    Meïr Aaron Goldschmidt and the Poetics of Jewish Fiction presents a bold new reading of one of Denmark’s greatest writers of the nineteenth century, situating him, first and foremost, as a Jewish artist. Offering an alternative to the nationalistic discourse so prevalent in the scholarship, Gurley examines Goldschmidt’s relationship to the Hebrew Bible and later rabbinical traditions, such as the ... Read more

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