Judaic Traditions in LIterature, Music, and Art – serie
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Classic Yiddish Stories of S. Y. Abramovitsh, Sholem Aleichem, and I. L. Peretz
Häftad, 2011
218 kr
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Two early works by S.Y. Abramovitsh introduce the reader to Abramovitsh’s alter ego Mendele the Book Peddler. Mendele narrates both The Little Man and Fishke the Lame. In different voices, he also presents a diverse cast of characters including Isaac Abraham as tailor’s apprentice, choirboy, and …
Classic Yiddish Stories of S. Y. Abramovitsh, Sholem Aleichem, and I. L. Peretz
Inbunden, 2004
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267 kr
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Two novellas by S. Y. Abramovitsh open this anthology, the first comprehensive overview of works by the three classic Yiddish authors. They describe Jewish life in Eastern Europe during the nineteenth century and introduce the reader to Abramovitsh's alter ago, Mendele the Book Peddler. Here he …
Once There Was Warsaw
A Memoir
Av Ber Kutsher
Häftad, 2024
510 kr
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As a young man in interwar Warsaw, newspaperman Ber Kutscher threw himself into the city’s vibrant Jewish arts and culture scene from the headquarters of the Association of Jewish Writers and Journalists at Tlomkatse 13. In Once There Was Warsaw, Kutsher’s achingly human depictions of writers, …
Vagabond Stars
A World History of Yiddish Theater
Häftad, 1996
212 kr
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This text provides an illustrated world history of the Yiddish theatre covering five continents and more than 300 years.
Traveler Disguised
The Rise of Modern Yiddish Fiction in the Nineteenth Century
Av Dan Miron
Häftad, 1996
249 kr
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In an exposition of writer S.Y. Abramovitsh, this work shows the symbolic importance of his central character, Mendele the Bookseller, and explores the history of Yiddish fiction in Russia during the 19th century.
Stories of David Bergelson
Yiddish Short Fiction from Russia
Av Golda Werman
Häftad, 1996
218 kr
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The writings of David Bergelson-virtually unknown to readers in the United States-are now available in this exciting collection. Composed of two short stories and a novella, this volume brings to life Bergelson's rich, elegiac prose. Golda Werman's highly literate translation perfectly captures his …
Hurban
Responses to Catastrophe in Hebrew Literature
Häftad, 1996
251 kr
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A study of the history of Jewish exiles and genocide, and the literary expressions that attempt to make sense of these catastrophes.In this book Alan Mintz devotes a chapter each to selected catastrophic events and the literary response to them: for example, the destruction of the First Temple in …
Songs from Bialik
Selected Poems of Hayim Nahman Bialik
Häftad, 2000
251 kr
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Hayim Nahman Bialik is considered by many to be one of the greatest Hebrew poets of modern times. This volume presents translations of a selection of his work.
Nineteen to the Dozen
Monologues and Bits and Bobs of Other Things
Av Sholem Aleichem, Ken Frieden
Häftad, 2000
296 kr
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The author of Yiddish novels and short stories, Sholem Aleichem, evokes the voices of Yiddish speakers in these monologues written between 1901 and 1916. In each piece, a man or a woman comes forward to tell the story.
New Country
Stories from the Yiddish About Life in America
Av Henry Goodman, Henry Goodman
Inbunden, 2001
122 kr
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An abridged version of a collection originally published in 1961, the 42 stories here are written by Jewish writers of the 20th century, including Sholem Aleichem, Abraham Raisin and Joseph Opotashu. They offer a testament to the mother tongue through the trials of Americanization.
Jewish Book of Fables
Selected Works
Av Eliezer Shtaynbarg, Curt Leviant
Inbunden, 2003
457 kr
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Expertly translated from the Yiddish by award-winning author and translator Curt Leviant, this edition features the fables printed in both English and Yiddish.
House of Seven Windows
Short Stories
Häftad, 2006
251 kr
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A House of Seven Windows by Kadya Molodowsky is the famed Yiddish poet's only collection of short stories. Written in simple prose, these stories are subtle portraits - tragic-comic, bittersweet, always generous spirited - of ordinary people: Jews in pre-World War II Eastern Europe and Jews …
Past Imperfect
318 Episodes from the Life of a Russian Artist
Inbunden, 2008
418 kr
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As a soviet underground artist, Grisha Bruskin was propelled to prominence after the unprecedented success of his paintings at the Sotheby Moscow auction of 1988. Since then his work has been exhibited all over the world at the Guggenheim, the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg, Russia, …
My Blue Piano
Häftad, 2015
186 kr
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Else Lasker-Schüler (1869–1945) was born into an affluent German Jewish family. Following the death of her parents and the dissolution of her marriage, the fledgling poet became notorious in the fashionable cafés of Berlin for appearing in costume as a Persian girl or as an Egyptian boy. Her …
Vilna My Vilna
Stories by Abraham Karpinowitz
Häftad, 2015
251 kr
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Abraham Karpinowitz (1913–2004) was born in Vilna, Poland (present-day Vilnius, Lithuania), the city that serves as both the backdrop and the central character for his stories. He survived the Holocaust in the Soviet Union and, after two years in an internment camp on the island of Cyprus, moved to …
Pioneers
The First Breach
Av S. An-sky
Häftad, 2017
251 kr
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When young Zalmen Itzkowitz steps off the train on a dark, dreary day at the close of the nineteenth century, the residents of Miloslavka have no idea what’s in store for them. Zalmen is a freethinker who has come to the rural town to earn his living as a tutor. Yet, rather than teach Hebrew, he …
Red Shoes for Rachel
Three Novellas
Häftad, 2017
326 kr
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Red Shoes for Rachel, Sandler’s award-winning collection of three novellas, features tightly wound tales that seamlessly incorporate diverse genres, including magic realism, satire, and autobiography, and profound psychological profiles to create touching portrayals of the human experience. …
Petty Business
Av Yirmi Pinkus
Häftad, 2017
249 kr
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As they do every year, Yosef Zinman, a well-to-do Tel Aviv grocer, and his beloved wife Zippi plan a vacation during the holiday of Sukkot to Seefeld in the mountainous Tirols region of Austria. This year, Zippi decides to invite her sister, who has fallen on hard times with a failing perfumery …
People of Godlbozhits
Av Leyb Rashkin, Jordan Finkin
Häftad, 2017
505 kr
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First published in 1936, The People of Godlbozhits depicts the ordinary yet deeply complex life of a Jewish community, following the fortunes of one family and its many descendants. Set in a shtetl in Poland between the world wars, Rashkin’s satiric novel offers a vivid cross-section not only of …
Diary of a Lonely Girl, or the Battle Against Free Love
Häftad, 2020
251 kr
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First published serially in the Yiddish daily newspaper di Varhayt in 1916-18, Diary of a Lonely Girl, or The Battle against Free Love is a novel of intimate feelings and scandalous behaviors, shot through with a dark humor. From the perch of a diarist writing in first person about her own love …
Rivals and Other Stories
Häftad, 2020
136 kr
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A major literary figure and frequent contributor to the Yiddish-language newspaper Forverts from the 1920s to the mid-1930s, Jonah Rosenfeld was recognized during and after his lifetime as an explorer of human psychology. His work foregrounds loneliness, social anxiety, and people's frustrated …
From a Distant Relation
Av Mikhah Yosef Berdichevsky, James Adam Redfield
Häftad, 2021
136 kr
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In his short life (1865-1921), Micha Josef Berdichevsky was a versatile and influential man of letters: an innovative Hebrew prose stylist; a collector of Jewish folklore; a scholar of ancient Jewish and Christian history. He was at once a peer of the Brothers Grimm, Sholem Aleichem, Friedrich …
Café Shira
A Novel
Häftad, 2022
287 kr
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New to Jerusalem and to adulthood, Rutha serves Café Shira’s devoted customers with a quiet compassion and a sensitive gaze, collecting their stories and absorbing them at her peril. Avigdor, the melancholy and somewhat weary café owner, philosophizes about love as he attends to the needs of his …
Provincial Newspaper and Other Stories
Häftad, 2023
329 kr
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When the young narrator of Miriam Karpilove’s A Provincial Newspaper leaves New York to work for a new Yiddish newspaper in Massachusetts, she expects to be treated with respect as a professional writer. Instead, she finds herself underpaid and overworked. In this slapstick novella, Karpilove’s …
Tears and Prayers of Fools
A Novel
Av Grigory Kanovich, Ken Frieden
Häftad, 2023
501 kr
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This extraordinary novel is part of Grigory Kanovich’s "Litvak saga," his tribute to Jewish life before the Holocaust. Set in a small Lithuanian town in the late nineteenth century, the story begins with the arrival of a stranger who sets everyone on edge and seems to know their secrets. Is he a …
Plague of Cholera and Other Stories
Häftad, 2024
409 kr
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With his intense, quickfire psychological fiction and consistent portrayal of characters’ subconscious minds, Jonah Rosenfeld is a standout among Yiddish authors of the early twentieth century. In his dedication to observing human psychology, he frequently confronted issues rarely dealt with by his …
Once There Was Warsaw
A Memoir
Av Ber Kutsher
Häftad, 2024
510 kr
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As a young man in interwar Warsaw, newspaperman Ber Kutscher threw himself into the city’s vibrant Jewish arts and culture scene from the headquarters of the Association of Jewish Writers and Journalists at Tlomkatse 13. In Once There Was Warsaw, Kutsher’s achingly human depictions of writers, …
Heritage
Jewish Artists in America Since 1900
Inbunden, 2025
844 kr
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As millions of Jews immigrated to the United States from Eastern Europe starting in the 1870s, they brought with them not only their religious heritage but also a definitive idea of the place and value of art and aesthetics in society. These ideas, motivated by local customs, morality, and …
Winding Road
My Childhood Years
Häftad, 2026
358 kr
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Rokhl Feygenberg became one of the youngest authors published in Yiddish when her autobiographical debut novel, The Winding Road, was released serially in 1905. This fictionalized account of her own rough childhood in a small Belarusian shtetl in the 1890s is framed by the deaths of her father when …
Introspectivism
Yiddish Poetry and Jewish Identity in 1930s America
Av Itay Zutra
Inbunden, 2026
1099 kr
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Introspectivism: Yiddish Poetry and Jewish Identity in 1930s America is the first comprehensive and comparative study of the modernist group of Yiddish poets and poetry written in New York by the In Zikh, also known as the "Introspectivists" or Inzikhistn Introspectivism forced social and political …
