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American Yiddish Poetry
A Bilingual Anthology
Av Benjamin Harshav, Barbara Harshav
Häftad, 2007
810 kr
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This remarkable volume introduces to the large English-speaking audience what is probably the most coherent segment of twentieth-century American literature not written in English. The range of American Yiddish Poetry runs the gamut from individualistic verse of alienation in the modern metropolis, …
Last Days of the Jerusalem of Lithuania
Chronicles from the Vilna Ghetto and the Camps, 1939-1944
Av Herman Kruk, Benjamin Harshav
Inbunden, 2002
1469 kr
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For five horrifying years in Vilna, the Vilna ghetto, and concentration camps in Estonia, Herman Kruk recorded his own experiences as well as the life and death of the Jewish community of the city symbolically called “The Jerusalem of Lithuania.” This unique chronicle includes many recovered pages …
Three Thousand Years of Hebrew Versification
Essays in Comparative Prosody
Inbunden, 2014
1366 kr
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In this unparalleled study of the forms of Hebrew poetry, preeminent authority Benjamin Harshav examines Hebrew verse during three millennia of changing historical and cultural contexts. He takes us around the world of the Jewish Diaspora, comparing the changes in Hebrew verse as it came into …
Language in Time of Revolution
Inbunden, 1993
502 kr
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This book deals with two remarkable events - the worldwide transformations of the Jews in the modern age and the revival of the ancient Hebrew language. It is a book about social and cultural history addressed not only to the professional historian, and a book about Jews addressed not only to …
Meaning of Yiddish
Häftad, 1990
562 kr
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With a rare combination of erudition and insight, the author investigates the major aspects of Yiddish language and culture, showing where Yiddish came from and what it has to offer, even as it ceases to be a "living" language.This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which …
Meaning of Yiddish
E-bok, 1990
390 kr
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With a rare combination of erudition and insight, the author investigates the major aspects of Yiddish language and culture, showing where Yiddish came from and what it has to offer, even as it ceases to be a "living" language. This title is part of UC Press''s Voices Revived program, which …
American Yiddish Poetry
A Bilingual Anthology
Av Benjamin Harshav, Barbara Harshav
E-bok, 1986
838 kr
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This book introduces a collection of twentieth-century American poetry written in Yiddish, aiming to bring this rich cultural and literary heritage to a broader audience. It is designed not only for those who understand Yiddish but for all readers of poetry, literature, and history who seek to …
Meaning of Yiddish
Inbunden, 1990
1329 kr
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With a rare combination of erudition and insight, the author investigates the major aspects of Yiddish language and culture, showing where Yiddish came from and what it has to offer, even as it ceases to be a "living" language.This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which …
Language in Time of Revolution
E-bok, 1993
830 kr
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This book deals with two remarkable events--the worldwide transformations of the Jews in the modern age and the revival of the ancient Hebrew language. It is a book about social and cultural history addressed not only to the professional historian, and a book about Jews addressed not only to Jewish …
Language in Time of Revolution
Häftad, 1999
398 kr
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This book on culture and consciousness in history concerns the worldwide transformations of Jewish culture and society and the revival of the ancient Hebrew language following the waves of pogroms in Russia in 1881, when large numbers of Jews in Eastern and Central Europe redefined their identity …
Meaning of Yiddish
Häftad, 1999
340 kr
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With a rare combination of erudition and insight, the author investigates the major aspects of Yiddish language and culture, showing where Yiddish came from and what it has to offer, even as it ceases to be a "living" language.Reviews"Harshav's book is a first-class study of Yiddish as both …
Marc Chagall on Art and Culture
Inbunden, 2003
1224 kr
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Marc Chagall (1887-1985) traversed a long route from a boy in the Jewish Pale of Settlement, to a commissar of art in revolutionary Russia, to the position of a world-famous French artist. This book presents for the first time a comprehensive collection of Chagall's public statements on art and …
Marc Chagall on Art and Culture
Häftad, 2003
297 kr
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Marc Chagall (1887-1985) traversed a long route from a boy in the Jewish Pale of Settlement, to a commissar of art in revolutionary Russia, to the position of a world-famous French artist. This book presents for the first time a comprehensive collection of Chagall's public statements on art and …
Sing, Stranger
A Century of American Yiddish Poetry—a Historical Anthology
Inbunden, 2006
914 kr
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Sing, Stranger is a comprehensive historical anthology of a century of American poetry written in Yiddish and now translated into English for the first time. Here are the Proletarian or "sweat-shop" poets, sympathizing with Socialist Anarchists, who were highly popular with Yiddish audiences at the …
Polyphony of Jewish Culture
Inbunden, 2007
923 kr
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This book is a coat of many colors. It is a collection of essays written in English by the distinguished Israeli literary and cultural critic, Benjamin Harshav, covering the whole span of Jewish culture. The essays combine a wide historical scope with meticulously detailed close analyses of the art …
Explorations in Poetics
Inbunden, 2007
1380 kr
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This collection of essays, originally published at different times, presents a coherent, systematic, and comprehensive theory of the work of literature and its major aspects. The approach, which may be called "Constructive Poetics," does not assume that a work of literature is a text with fixed …
Explorations in Poetics
Häftad, 2007
217 kr
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This collection of essays, originally published at different times, presents a coherent, systematic, and comprehensive theory of the work of literature and its major aspects. The approach, which may be called "Constructive Poetics," does not assume that a work of literature is a text with fixed …
Marc Chagall and His Times
A Documentary Narrative
Inbunden, 2003
1166 kr
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This book presents a new and comprehensive biography of one of the most prominent artists of the twentieth century in dialogue with the events and ideologies of his time. It encompasses the 98 years of Chagall's life (1887-1985) in Russia, France, the US, as well as Germany and Israel, his deep …
