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Philip Roth
Stung by Life
Inbunden, 2025
282 kr
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A landmark biography of one of our most prominent chroniclers of American life In this groundbreaking literary biography, Steven J. Zipperstein captures the complex life and astonishing work of Philip Roth (1933–2018), one of America’s most celebrated writers. Born in Newark, New Jersey—where his …
Imagining Russian Jewry
Memory, History, Identity
Häftad, 1999
590 kr
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This subtle, unusual book explores the many, often overlapping ways in which the Russian Jewish past has been remembered in history, in literature, and in popular culture. Drawing on a wide range of sources—including novels, plays, and archival material—Imagining Russian Jewry is a reflection on …
Rosenfeld's Lives
Fame, Oblivion, and the Furies of Writing
Häftad, 2011
522 kr
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A haunting consideration of the extraordinary mind of Saul Bellow’s unjustly forgotten friend and literary rival and the extremes of the writing lifeBorn in Chicago in 1918, the prodigiously gifted and erudite Isaac Rosenfeld was anointed a “genius” upon the publication of his “luminescent” novel, …
Assimilation and Community
The Jews in Nineteenth-Century Europe
Av Jonathan Frankel, Steven J. Zipperstein
Häftad, 2004
687 kr
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The early and middle decades of the nineteenth century in Europe (1815-81) have long been regarded as the major period of assimilation in post-medieval Jewish history. Moreover the established historiography dealing with those years has tended to focus on the processes of accommodation and communal …
Jews of Odessa
A Cultural History, 1794-1881
Häftad, 1991
342 kr
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Founded in 1794 as a frontier city on the Black Sea, Odessa soon grew to be one of Russia's busiest seaports. Settlers of all nationalities went there to seek their fortune, among them Jews who came to form one of the largest, wealthiest, and most culturally fertile Jewish communities in Europe. …
Pogrom
Kishinev and the Tilt of History
Häftad, 2019
191 kr
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So shattering were the after-effects of Kishinev, the rampage that broke out in Russia in April 1903, that one historian remarked that it was “nothing less than a prototype for the Holocaust itself”. In three days of violence, 49 Jews were killed and 600 raped or wounded, whilst more than 1,000 …
Ahad Ha'am Elusive Prophet
Ahad Ha''am and the origins of Zionism
E-bok, 2012
68 kr
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An incisive biography of the guiding intellectual presence - and chief internal critic - of Zionism, during the movement''s formative years between the 1880s and the 1920s. Ahad Ha''am (''One of the People'') was the pen name of Asher Ginzberg (1856-1927), a Russian Jew whose life intersected …
Worlds of S. an-sky
A Russian Jewish Intellectual at the Turn of the Century
Av Gabriella Safran, Steven J. Zipperstein
Häftad, 2006
475 kr
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Shloyme-Zanvl Rappoport, known as An-sky (1863-1920), the author of the best known play in the Hebrew and Yiddish languages, "The Dybbuk," was a figure of immense versatility and also ambiguity in Russian and Jewish intellectual, literary, and political spheres. He was a leading Russian populist; …
Pogrom
Kishinev and the Tilt of History
Inbunden, 2018
248 kr
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So shattering were the after-effects of Kishinev, the rampage that broke out in Russia in April 1903, that one historian remarked that it was “nothing less than a prototype for the Holocaust itself”. In three days of violence, 49 Jews were killed and 600 raped or wounded, whilst more than 1,000 …
