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  • The Hidden Isaac Bashevis Singer

    Edición de Seth Wolitz ...
    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 ... Leer más

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  • Schlepping Through the Alps

    My Search for Austria's Jewish Past with Its Last Wandering Shepherd

    de Sam Apple ...
    Hans Breuer, Austria’s only wandering shepherd, is also a Yiddish folksinger. He walks the Alps, shepherd’s stick in hand, singing lullabies to his 625 sheep. Sometimes he even gives concerts in historically anti-Semitic towns, showing slides of the flock as he belts out Yiddish ditties.When New York-based writer Sam Apple hears about this one-of-a-kind eccentric, he flies overseas and signs on as ... Leer más

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  • Primo Levi

    The Matter of a Life

    Series series Jewish Lives
    In 1943, twenty-four-year-old Primo Levi had just begun a career in chemistry when, after joining a partisan group, he was captured by the Italian Fascist Militia and deported to Auschwitz. Of the 650 Italian Jews in his transport, he was one of fewer than 25 who survived the eleven months before the camp’s liberation. Upon returning to his native Turin, Levi resumed work as a chemist and was ... Leer más

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  • The Parable and Its Lesson

    A Novella

    de S. Y. Agnon ...
    Traducido por James S. Diamond ...
    Series series Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
    S.Y. Agnon was the greatest Hebrew writer of the twentieth century, and the only Hebrew writer to receive the Nobel Prize for literature. He devoted the last years of his life to writing a massive cycle of stories about Buczacz, the Galician town (now in Ukraine) in which he grew up. Yet when these stories were collected and published three years after Agnon's death, few took notice. Years passed ... Leer más

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  • Elie Wiesel

    Jewish, Literary, and Moral Perspectives

    "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 ... Leer más

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  • Israel: Stripped Bare

    Israel: Stripped Bare is a book about the brutal reality of Israels existence, written from a perspective of an Arab-Jew. Some of these articles were already published in Sephardic Heritage Update, and some have been added over the years. It becomes crucial to see Israels existence through the eyes of the Levantine prison, outside of the European perspective of the Jewish State. The book provokes ... Leer más

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  • Benjamin Fondane's Ulysses

    Bilingual Edition

    Traducido por Nathaniel Rudavsky-Brody ...
    Series series Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art
    From 1923, when he emigrated from Bucharest, to his deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1944, Benjamin Fondane made a unique and independent-minded contribution to the literary and intellectual life of Paris. One of the most significant pieces in Fondane’s body of work is the long poem Ulysses, first published in 1933. Fondane considerably revised his text during the dark years of occupied Paris, ... Leer más

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  • Dreaming of Michelangelo

    Jewish Variations on a Modern Theme

    de Asher Biemann ...
    Dreaming of Michelangelo is the first book-length study to explore the intellectual and cultural affinities between modern Judaism and the life and work of Michelangelo Buonarroti. It argues that Jewish intellectuals found themselves in the image of Michelangelo as an "unrequited lover" whose work expressed loneliness and a longing for humanity's response. The modern Jewish imagination thus became ... Leer más

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  • Lingering Bilingualism

    Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Literatures in Contact

    de Naomi Brenner ...
    Series series Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art
    In a famous comment made by the poet Chayim Nachman Bialik, Hebrew—the language of the Jewish religious and intellectual tradition—and Yiddish—the East European Jewish vernacular—were "a match made in heaven that cannot be separated." That marriage, so the story goes, collapsed in the years immediately preceding and following World War I. But did the "exes" really go their separate ways?Lingering ... Leer más

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  • Approaches to Teaching the Works of Primo Levi

    Edición de Nicholas Patruno, Roberta Ricci ...
    Series Libro 133 - Approaches to Teaching World Literature
    Primo Levi, Holocaust survivor and renowned memoirist, is one of the most widely read writers of post-World War II Italy. His works are characterized by the lean, dispassionate eloquence with which he approaches his experience of incarceration in Auschwitz. His memoirs--as well as his poetry and fiction and his many interviews--are often taught in several fields, including Jewish studies and ... Leer más

    $38.00 USD

  • Zionism and Revolution in European-Jewish Literature

    de Laurel Plapp ...
    Series series Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
    Zionism and Revolution in European-Jewish Literature examines twentieth-century Jewish writing that challenges imperialist ventures and calls for solidarity with the colonized, most notably the Arabs of Palestine and Africans in the Americas. Since Edward Said defined orientalism in 1978 as a Western image of the Islamic world that has justified domination, critics have considered the Jewish ... Leer más

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  • Homeless Tongues

    Poetry and Languages of the Sephardic Diaspora

    This book examines a group of multicultural Jewish poets to address the issue of multilingualism within a context of minor languages and literatures, nationalism, and diaspora. It introduces three writers working in minor or threatened languages who challenge the usual consensus of Jewish literature: Algerian Sadia Lévy, Israeli Margalit Matitiahu, and Argentine Juan Gelman. Each of them—Lévy in ... Leer más

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