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Joseph Opatoshu

Author : Sabine Koller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351192019

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Joseph Opatoshu by Sabine Koller Pdf

"At the turn of the twentieth century East European Jews underwent a radical cultural transformation, which turned a traditional religious community into a modern nation, struggling to find its place in the world. An important figure in this 'Jewish Renaissance' was the American-Yiddish writer and activist Joseph Opatoshu (1886-1954). Born into a Hassidic family, he spent his early childhood in a forest in Central Poland, was educated in Russia and studied engineering in France and America. In New York, where he emigrated in 1907, he joined the revitalizing modernist group Di yunge - The Young. His early novels painted a vivid picture of social turmoil and inner psychological conflict, using modernist devices of multiple voices and mixed linguistic idioms. He acquired international fame by his historical novels about the Polish uprising of 1863 and the expulsion of Jews from Regensburg in 1519. Though he was translated into several languages, Yiddish writing always fostered his ideas and ideals of Jewish identity. Although he occupied a key position in the transnational Jewish culture during his lifetime, Opatoshu has until recently been neglected by scholars. This volume brings together literary specialists and historians working in Jewish and Slavic Studies, who analyse Opatoshu's quest for modern Jewish identity from different perspectives. The contributors are Shlomo Berger (Amsterdam), Marc Caplan (Baltimore, MD), Gennady Estraikh (New York), Roland Gruschka (Heidelberg), Ellie Kellman (Boston), Sabine Koller (Regensburg), Mikhail Krutikov (Ann Arbor, MI), Joshua Lambert (Amherst, MA), Harriet Murav (Urbana-Champaign, IL), Avrom Novershtern (Jerusalem), Dan Opatoshu (Los Angeles), Eugenia Prokop-Janiec (Krakow), Jan Schwarz (Lund), Astrid Starck (Basel/Mulhouse), Karolina Szymaniak (Krakow) and Evita Wiecki (Munich)."

A Shtetl and Other Yiddish Novellas

Author : Ruth R. Wisse
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0814318495

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A Shtetl and Other Yiddish Novellas by Ruth R. Wisse Pdf

The five short novellas which comprise this anthology were written between 1890 and World War I. All share a common setting--the Eastern European Jewish town or shtetl, and all deal in different ways with a single topic--the Jewish confrontation with modernity. The authors of these novellas are among the greatest masters of Yiddish prose. In their work, today's reader will discover a literary tradition of considerable scope, energy, and variety and will come face to face with an exceptionally memorable cast of characters and with a human community now irrevocably lost. In her general introduction, Professor Wisse traces the development of modern Yiddish literature in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and describes the many shifts that took place between the Yiddish writers and the world about which they wrote. She also furnishes a brief introduction for each novella, giving the historical and biographical background and offering a critical interpretation of the work.

In Polish Woods

Author : Joseph Opatoshu
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789121520

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In Polish Woods by Joseph Opatoshu Pdf

In Polish Woods, which was first published in its English translation from its original Yiddish in 1938, is a historical novel describing the devolution of the Kotzker dynasty between the age of Napoleon and the Polish Revolt of 1863. Author Joseph Opatoshu reflects on the conflicting and even opposite tendencies in development of the Jewish ideology during this era, which would largely determine the future of the Jewish people: Hasidism, enlightenment, and assimilation. A thoroughly engaging read.

Guide to the YIVO Archives

Author : Yivo Institute For Jewish Research
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781315503196

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Guide to the YIVO Archives by Yivo Institute For Jewish Research Pdf

YIVO, founded in 1925 in Wilno (Vilnius), is a center for scholarship on East European Jewish history, language, and culture. During the 1920s and early 1930s a network of YIVO affiliates was established across Europe and the Americas including one in New York, which became the institute's new home when YIVO was reestablished in 1940 by members of its board who had escaped from Nazi-occupied Europe. This is the first repository-level finding aid to the archives (over 1,400 collections) of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in New York. It includes a brief history of the institute and archives, descriptive entries on each collection, a detailed index of key words and subject headings, and information on the archive's basic services.

Truth Springs from the Earth

Author : Morris M. Faierstein
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532637261

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Truth Springs from the Earth by Morris M. Faierstein Pdf

Rabbi Menahem Mendel of Kotsk (1787-1859) was one of the most interesting and challenging figures of Hasidism in the nineteenth century. His search for truth and battles against falsehood and spiritual compromise are the subject of many legends, hagiographical stories, and anecdotes. Though he was irascible and demanding, he inspired the loyalty of disciples who went on to become the dominant leaders of Hasidism in Poland from the middle of the nineteenth century to the destruction of Polish Jewry in the Holocaust. R. Menahem Mendel left no surviving writings. His descendants and disciples moved away from the radicalism of his teachings and adopted more conventional and conservative theological positions. As a result, there was little incentive to preserve and publish his teachings. The goal of this work is twofold. First, to present a biographical study of what is known about R. Menahem Mendel that is based on historical research, instead of repeating myths, legends, and stories without regard to their historical veracity. Secondly, to collect, translate, and analyze those teachings and sayings by or about R. Menahem Mendel that are consistent with what we know about his life and teachings, and are also accessible to a broader audience.

The Routledge Encyclopedia of Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century

Author : Sorrel Kerbel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1394 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2004-11-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135456078

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The Routledge Encyclopedia of Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century by Sorrel Kerbel Pdf

Now available in paperback for the first time, Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century is both a comprehensive reference resource and a springboard for further study. This volume: examines canonical Jewish writers, less well-known authors of Yiddish and Hebrew, and emerging Israeli writers includes entries on figures as diverse as Marcel Proust, Franz Kafka, Tristan Tzara, Eugene Ionesco, Harold Pinter, Tom Stoppard, Arthur Miller, Saul Bellow, Nadine Gordimer, and Woody Allen contains introductory essays on Jewish-American writing, Holocaust literature and memoirs, Yiddish writing, and Anglo-Jewish literature provides a chronology of twentieth-century Jewish writers. Compiled by expert contributors, this book contains over 330 entries on individual authors, each consisting of a biography, a list of selected publications, a scholarly essay on their work and suggestions for further reading.

Why Didn't the Press Shout?

Author : Robert Moses Shapiro
Publisher : KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0881257753

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Why Didn't the Press Shout? by Robert Moses Shapiro Pdf

This book brings together contributions by thirty scholars of journalism and history who look at what was reported about the Holocaust in the press of more than a dozen countries and languages. The studies examine the news media in America, England, and the Soviet Union, in Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, in the Vatican, in occupied countries like Romania, Hungary, Greece, and Poland, and in Palestine under the British Mandate. By and large, the news media in the Allied countries neglected the story, while those in Nazi-dominated countries treated news related to the Holocaust in a wholly tendentious way. Thus the press, for a variety of reasons, did not cover the Holocaust, one of the central events of the twentieth century. As this book thoroughly demonstrates, it was perhaps the greatest ethical, professional, and political failure of the news media during World War II. If the press had been more responsible, and had informed the public in the West early enough and thoroughly enough, the history of the Holocaust might have been different and millions of victims might have survived. Published in association with Yeshiva University Press.

Bovo d’Antona by Elye Bokher. A Yiddish Romance

Author : Claudia Rosenzweig
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 599 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004306851

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Bovo d’Antona by Elye Bokher. A Yiddish Romance by Claudia Rosenzweig Pdf

In Bovo d’Antona, Claudia Rosenzweig presents a critical and annotated edition of a Yiddish Romance, composed in the first half of the 16th century by the Jewish polymath Elye Bokher (Elia Levita).

Poles and Jews

Author : Magdalena Opalski,Yiśraʼel Barṭal
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 0874516021

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Poles and Jews by Magdalena Opalski,Yiśraʼel Barṭal Pdf

Examines Polish and Jewish perceptions of the rapprochement culminating in Polish national insurrection against Czarist Russia in 1863.

A Day in Regensburg

Author : Joseph Opatoshu
Publisher : Philadelphia : Jewish Publication Society of America
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037199259

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A Day in Regensburg by Joseph Opatoshu Pdf

CONTENTS.- Continuity; a memory of my father.- A day in Regensburg.- Ciechanow melody.- A Bratzlaver Chasid.- A rabbi.- Rationalists.- Simchat Torah.- Meyer Balaban.- Four hundred years.- Miracles.- The mute hungarian.- Pedigree.- The Chumash lad.- The eternal wedding dress.- In the Jewish district of Vienna.- A Sabbath afternoon.- Almost there.- Ben Sira's grandson.- Father, father.- In a slaurhterhouse.- Midnight vigil.- Lampshade king.

The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Volume 8

Author : Todd M. Endelman,Zvi Gitelman,Deborah Dash Moore
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 1384 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : Jews
ISBN : 9780300135527

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The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Volume 8 by Todd M. Endelman,Zvi Gitelman,Deborah Dash Moore Pdf

The eighth volume in a landmark series, this anthology of Jewish culture and civilization encompasses the period between the world wars An anthology of Jewish culture between the world wars, the editors' selections convey the variety, breadth, and depth of Jewish creativity in those tempestuous decades. Despite--or perhaps because of--external threats, Jews fought vigorously over religion, politics, migration, and their own relation to the state and to one another. The texts, translated from many languages, span a wide range of politics, culture, literature, and art. This collection examines what was simultaneously a tense and innovative period in modern Jewish history.

Globalization in Southeast Asia

Author : Shinji Yamashita,Jeremy Seymour Eades
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1571815058

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Globalization in Southeast Asia by Shinji Yamashita,Jeremy Seymour Eades Pdf

The rapid postwar economic growth in the Southeast Asia region has led to a transformation of many of the societies there, together with the development of new types of anthropological research in the region. Local societies with originally quite different cultures have been incorporated into multi-ethnic states with their own projects of nation-building based on the creation of "national cultures" using these indigenous elements. At the same time, the expansion of international capitalism has led to increasing flows of money, people, languages and cultures across national boundaries, resulting in new hybrid social structures and cultural forms. This book examines the nature of these processes in contemporary Southeast Asia with detailed case studies drawn from countries across the region, including Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. At the macro-level these include studies of nation-building and the incorporation of minorities. At the micro-level they range from studies of popular cultural forms, such as music and textiles to the impact of new sects and the world religions on local religious practice. Moving between the global and the local are the various streams of migrants within the region, including labor migrants responding to the changing distribution of economic opportunities and ethnic minorities moving in response to natural disaster.

American Yiddish Poetry

Author : Benjamin Harshav,Barbara Harshav
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 844 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0804751706

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American Yiddish Poetry by Benjamin Harshav,Barbara Harshav Pdf

This remarkable volume introduces what is probably the most coherent segment of twentieth-century American literature not written in English. Includes a bilingual facing-page format, notes and biographies of poets, and selections from Yiddish theory and criticism.

Catalog of the Gerald K. Stone Collection of Judaica

Author : Gerald K. Stone
Publisher : Academic Studies PRess
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781644694763

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Catalog of the Gerald K. Stone Collection of Judaica by Gerald K. Stone Pdf

Gerald K. Stone has collected books about Canadian Jewry since the early 1980s. This volume is a descriptive catalog of his Judaica collection, comprising nearly 6,000 paper or electronic documentary resources in English, French, Yiddish, and Hebrew. Logically organized, indexed, and selectively annotated, the catalog is broad in scope, covering Jewish Canadian history, biography, religion, literature, the Holocaust, antisemitism, Israel and the Middle East, and more. An introduction by Richard Menkis discusses the significance of the Catalog and collecting for the study of the Jewish experience in Canada. An informative bibliographical resource, this book will be of interest to scholars and students of Canadian and North American Jewish studies.

Matrilineal Dissent

Author : Annie Atura Bushnell,Lori Harrison-Kahan,Ashley Walters
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780814349847

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Matrilineal Dissent by Annie Atura Bushnell,Lori Harrison-Kahan,Ashley Walters Pdf

Redefining Jewish American literature through expansive feminist frameworks.