BOOKS by David G Roskies

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1	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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions
2	Against the Apocalypse: Responses to Catastrophe in Modern Jewish Culture more books like this by David G Roskies see all copies from $1.99! new only from $16.64! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	The Literature of Destruction: Jewish Responses to Catastrophe more books like this by David G Roskies see all copies from $16.34! new only from $50.27! \| signed copies \| first editions
4	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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.73! \| first editions
5	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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $32.30! \| first editions
6	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, ... see all copies from $5.77! new only from $10.35! \| first editions \| SVS
7	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) I want to Fall Like This showcases the inspired poetry of Rukhl Fishman (1935-1984), the youngest and only American-born Yiddish poet of the "Yung Yisroel". This group of young poets and writers from across the world settled in lsrael after World War II and used Yiddish, instead of Hebrew, to bridge gaps across time and place. see all copies from $9.77! new only from $17.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
8	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 ... see all copies from $8.27! new only from $29.86! \| first editions \| SVS
9	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 ... see all copies from $13.97! new only from $40.16! \| SVS
10	Everyday Jews: Scenes from a Vanished Life by David G Roskies (Editor), Maier Deshell (Translator), Margaret Birstein (Translator) see all copies from $29.02! new only from $29.02! \| SVS
11	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 see all copies from $13.46!

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