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Writings on Yiddish and Yiddishkayt : the war years, 1939-1945 / Isaac Bashevis Singer ; translated and edited by David Stromberg.
LIBRA PS3569.I5437 W75 2023
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Singer, Isaac Bashevis, 1904-1991, author.
- Language:
- English
- Yiddish
- Subjects (All):
- Singer, Isaac Bashevis, 1904-1991.
- Singer, Isaac Bashevis.
- Yiddish literature.
- Physical Description:
- 207 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Amherst, MA : White Goat Press, [2023]
- Summary:
- "David Stromberg's chronological presentation of Singer's highly readable articles takes readers on a dual journey: one of history, and one of a writer watching history unfold. Every piece in Writings on Yiddish and Yiddishkayt was originally published in the Forverts, the world's largest and most influential Yiddish newspaper. Stromberg's careful curation, contextual explanations, and excellent translations give the readers a unique lens onto the past" -- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Singer's wartime writings: an introduction / David Stromberg
- Agunot - wives of missing husbands not allowed to remarry by Jewish law
- What is Dybbuk?
- What is Kabbalah?
- Jews would oppose Nazis even if fascists and Hitlerites were not antisemites
- Matchmaking, weddings and divorces - tragedy and comedy in old Jewish life
- Elul - the month when "even a fish in water trembles"
- Religious Jews say that the current war is the war of Gog and Magog
- The Yiddish that we spoke in the old country is being forgotten
- Rabbi Nahman told stories that delighted our grandparents
- Is being powerless a Jewish ideal?
- Does being Jewish influence the work of Jews who are American writers?
- Pages out of Jewish history from French cities the American Army is now liberating
- They don't know why they're Jewish, but don't want to be anything else
- Each Jewish street in Warsaw was like a town of its own
- Famous rabbis who spoke out against swinging chickens as a sacrifice before Yom Kippur
- The ancient Jewish notion that good and evil are always battling inside us
- Yiddish language and culture undergo their greatest crisis in history
- Hanukkah candles and the stories they tell
- Jewish names and Yiddish names
- Was Y.L. Peretz a writer or a rabbi?
- Jews and Jewish life not yet portrayed in Yiddish literature
- The destruction of Berlin and the destruction of Jerusalem
- Why movies aren't made about Jewish life
- Answer to a tough question on Jewish rights in Palestine
- Increasingly hard for Jewish writers to describe Jewish life.
- ISBN:
- 9798988677307
- 9798987707890
- OCLC:
- 1409443654
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