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A Bridge of Longing: The Lost Art of Yiddish Storytelling

A Bridge of Longing: The Lost Art of Yiddish Storytelling more books like this

by David G Roskies

This text provides a history of how Yiddish storytelling became the politics of rescue for successive generations of displaced Jewish artists, embodying their fervent hopes and greatest fears in the languages of tradition. Its protagonists are modern writers who returned to storytelling in the hope of harnessing the folk tradition and who created ...

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The World According to Itzik: Selected Poetry and prose

The World According to Itzik: Selected Poetry and prose more books like this

by Itzik Manger, Leonard Wolf (Translator), David G Roskies (Introduction by)

In the years between 1929 and 1939, when Itzik Manger wrote most of the poetry and fiction that made him famous, his name among Yiddish readers was a household word. Called the Shelley of Yiddish, he was characterized as being "drunk with talent". This anthology of Manger's work seeks to display the full range of his genius in poetry, fiction and ...

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The Literature of Destruction: Jewish Responses to Catastrophe more books like this

by David G Roskies

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Against the Apocalypse: Responses to Catastrophe in Modern Jewish Culture

Against the Apocalypse: Responses to Catastrophe in Modern Jewish Culture more books like this

by David G Roskies

This text documents a virtually unknown chapter in the history of the refusal of Jews throughout the ages to surrender. The author employs wide-ranging scholarship to the Holocaust and the memories associated with it, in affirmation of both continuities and violent endings.

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The Shtetl book more books like this

by Diane K. Roskies, David G. Roskies

Examines the history and way of life of Jews in Eastern Europe.

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I Want to Fall Like This: Selected Poems of Rukhl Fishman

I Want to Fall Like This: Selected Poems of Rukhl Fishman more books like this

by Rukhl Fishman, Seymour Levitan (Translator), David G Roskies (Introduction by)

This is a collection of the poetry of Rukhl Fishman, the youngest and only American-born Yiddish poet of the "Yung Yisroel". This group of poets and prose writers from across the world settled in Israel after World War II, and used Yiddish rather than Hebrew, to bridge gaps across time and place.

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Scribblers on the Roof: Contemporary American Jewish Fiction

Scribblers on the Roof: Contemporary American Jewish Fiction more books like this

by Melvin Jules Bukiet (Editor), David G Roskies (Editor)

The first American Jewish anthology in a decade to include both established masters and the newest generation of gifted storytellers. The authors gathered here represent contemporary American Jewish fiction at its best. Drawn from the renowned rooftop reading series at Ansche Chesed, a synagogue on the Upper West Side in New York City, ...

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The Jewish Search for a Usable Past

The Jewish Search for a Usable Past more books like this

by David G Roskies

After redrawing the map of modern Jewish memory, David G. Roskies takes the reader on a grand tour of major memory sites, each of which is built upon foundations of rebellion, rupture, and loss: chronicles of catastrophe from the Warsaw ghetto that preserve a broken covenant; the symbolic landscape of an Old World shtetl; a gallery of rabbis and ...

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Everyday Jews: Scenes from a Vanished Life

Everyday Jews: Scenes from a Vanished Life more books like this

by David G Roskies (Editor), Maier Deshell (Translator), Margaret Birstein (Translator)

When "Everyday Jews" was first published in Poland in 1935, the Jewish Left was scandalized by the sex scenes, and I. B. Singer complained that the novel was too bleak to be psychologically credible. Yet within two years Perle's novel was heralded as a modern Yiddish masterpiece. Offering a unique blend of raw sexuality and romantic love, thwarted ...

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The Literature of Destruction

The Literature of Destruction more books like this

by David G Roskies (Editor)

David Roskies, in one hundred powerful selections, presents the two-thousand year history of Jewish responses to castastrophe. The cyclical nature of violent regimes and their overthrow is delineated in these recurring images of sin, martyrdom, and retribution that have sustained the Jewish people despite pogroms, massacres, and expulsions -- from ...

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Bearing the Unbearable: Yiddish and Polish Poetry in the Ghettos and Concentration Camps

Bearing the Unbearable: Yiddish and Polish Poetry in the Ghettos and Concentration Camps more books like this

by Frieda W Aaron, David G Roskies (Foreword by)

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Night words; a midrash on the holocaust. Nakhtverter; a medresh oyfn hurbn. Mile lilah; Midrash al ha-Shoah. more books like this

by David G. Roskies

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