Author : Emma Lazarus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UCAL:B5525607
Songs of a Semite
Emma Lazarus
Songs Of A Semite The Dance To Death And Other Poems
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Songs of a Semite
Emma Lazarus
Author : Emma Lazarus
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1523437324
Songs of a Semite by Emma Lazarus Pdf
The "Dance to Death" was published, along with other poems and translations from the Hebrew poets of mediaeval Spain, in a small volume entitled "Songs of a Semite." The tragedy was dedicated, " In profound veneration and respect to the memory of George Eliot, the illustrious writer who did most among the artists of our day towards elevating and ennobling the spirit of Jewish nationality." For this was the idea that had caught the imagination of Emma Lazarus, - a restored and independent nationality and repatriation in Palestine. In her article in "The Century" of February, 1883, on the "Jewish Problem," she says:- "I am fully persuaded that all suggested solutions other than this are but temporary palliatives.... The idea formulated by George Eliot has already sunk into the minds of many Jewish enthusiasts, and it germinates with miraculous rapidity. 'The idea that I am possessed with,' says Deronda, 'is that of restoring a political existence to my people; making them a nation again, giving them a national centre, such as the English have, though they, too, are scattered over the face of the globe. That is a task which presents itself to me as a duty.... I am resolved to devote my life to it. At the least, I may awaken a movement in other minds such as has been awakened in my own.1 Could the noble prophetess who wrote the above words have lived but till to-day to see the ever-increasing necessity of adopting her inspired counsel,... she would have been herself astonished at the flame enkindled by her seed of fire, and the practical shape which the movement projected by her in poetic vision is beginning to assume." -The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Vol. 1 [1888]
Songs of a Semite: The Dance to Death, and Other Poems (Classic Reprint)
Emma Lazarus
Author : Emma Lazarus
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-12
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1331261694
Songs of a Semite: The Dance to Death, and Other Poems (Classic Reprint) by Emma Lazarus Pdf
Excerpt from Songs of a Semite: The Dance to Death, and Other Poems Scene I. A Street in the Judengasse, outside the Synagogue. During this scene Jews and Jewesses, singly and in groups, with prayer-books in their hands pass across the stage and go into the Synagogue. Among them, enter Baruch and Naphtali. Naphtali. Hast seen him yet? Baruch. Nay; Rabbi Jacob's door Swung to behind him, just as I puffed up O'erblown with haste. See how our years weigh, cousin. Who'd judge me with this paunch a temperate man, A man of modest means, a man withal Scarce overpast his prime? Well, God be praised, If age bring no worse burden! Who is this stranger? Simon the Leech tells me he claims to bear Some special message from the Lord - no doubt To-morrow, fresh from rest, he'll publish it Within the Synagogue Naphtali. To-morrow, man? He will not hear of rest - he comes anon - Shall we within? Baruch. Rather let's wait, And scrutinize him as he mounts the street. Since you denote him so remarkable, You've whetted my desire. Naphtali. A blind, old man, Mayhap is all you'll find him - spent with travel. His raiment fouled with dust, his sandaled feet Road-bruised by stone and. bramble. But his face! - Majestic with long fall of cloud-white beard, And hoary wreath of hair - oh, it is one Already kissed by angels. Baruch. Look, there limps Little Manasseh, bloated as his purse, And wrinkled as a frost-pinched fruit. I hear His last loan to the Syndic will result In quadrupling his wealth. Good Lord! what luck Blesses some folk, while good men stint and sweat And scrape, to merely fill the household larder. What said you of this pilgrim, Naphtali? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Songs of a Semite
Emma Lazarus
Author : Emma Lazarus
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1359763279
Songs of a Semite by Emma Lazarus Pdf
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SONGS OF A SEMITE
Emma 1849-1887 Lazarus
Author : Emma 1849-1887 Lazarus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1363654969
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Songs of a Semite
Emma Lazarus
Author : Emma Lazarus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Music
ISBN : 0781237718
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Bonded Leather binding
Dancing Jewish
Rebecca Rossen
Author : Rebecca Rossen
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780199791774
Dancing Jewish by Rebecca Rossen Pdf
Jewish choreographers have not only been vital contributors to American modern and postmodern dance, but they have also played a critical and unacknowledged role in American Jewish culture. This book delineates this rich history, demonstrating how, over the twentieth century, dance enabled American Jews to grapple with identity, difference, cultural belonging, and pride.
A History of American Literature, 1607-1783
Moses Coit Tyler
Author : Moses Coit Tyler
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
A History of American Literature, 1607-1783 by Moses Coit Tyler Pdf
The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature
Jay Parini
Author : Jay Parini
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2273 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : American literature
ISBN : 9780195156539
The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature by Jay Parini Pdf
This set treats the whole of American literature, from the European discovery of America to the present, with entries in alphabetical order. Each of the 350 substantive essays is a major interpretive contribution. Well-known critics and scholars provide clear and vividly written essays thatreflect the latest scholarship on a given topic, as well as original thinking on the part of the critic. The Encyclopedia is available in print and as an e-reference text from Oxford's Digital Reference Shelf.At the core of the encyclopedia lie 250 essays on poets, playwrights, essayists, and novelists. The most prominent figures (such as Whitman, Melville, Faulkner, Frost, Morrison, and so forth) are treated at considerable length (10,000 words) by top-flight critics. Less well known figures arediscussed in essays ranging from 2,000 to 5,000 words. Each essay examines the life of the author in the context of his or her times, looking in detail at key works and describing the arc of the writer's career. These essays include an assessment of the writer's current reputation with abibliography of major works by the writer as well as a list of major critical and biographical works about the writer under discussion.A second key element of the project is the critical assessments of major American masterworks, such as Moby-Dick, Song of Myself, Walden, The Great Gatsby, The Waste Land, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Death of a Salesmanr, or Beloved. Each of these essays offers a close reading of the given work,placing that work in its historical context and offering a range of possibilities with regard to critical approach. These fifty essays (ranging from 2,000 to 5,000 words) are simply and clearly enough written that an intelligent high school student should easily understand them, but sophisticatedenough that a college student or general reader in a public library will find the essays both informative and stimulating.The final major element of this encyclopedia consists of fifty-odd essays on literary movements, periods, or themes, pulling together a broad range of information and making interesting connections. These essays treat many of the same authors already discussed, but in a different context; they alsogather into the fold authors who do not have an entire essay on their work (so that Zane Grey, for example, is discussed in an essay on Western literature but does not have an essay to himself). In this way, the project is truly "encyclopedic," in the conventional sense. These essays aim forcomprehensiveness without losing anything of the narrative force that makes them good reading in their own right.In a very real fashion, the literature of the American people reflects their deepest desires, aspirations, fears, and fantasies. The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature gathers a wide range of information that illumines the field itself and clarifies many of its particulars.
Monthly bulletin of books added to the Public Library of the City of Boston
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z298799400
Monthly bulletin of books added to the Public Library of the City of Boston by Anonim Pdf
Monthly Bulletin of Books Added to the Public Library of the City of Boston
Boston Public Library
Author : Boston Public Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B2876057
Monthly Bulletin of Books Added to the Public Library of the City of Boston by Boston Public Library Pdf
Catalogue of the Galatea Collection of Books Relating to the History of Woman
Boston Public Library. Galatea Collection
Author : Boston Public Library. Galatea Collection
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Women
ISBN : HARVARD:RSLYKT
Catalogue of the Galatea Collection of Books Relating to the History of Woman by Boston Public Library. Galatea Collection Pdf
The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Volume 7
Israel Bartal,Kenneth B. Moss
Author : Israel Bartal,Kenneth B. Moss
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 1400 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780300230215
The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Volume 7 by Israel Bartal,Kenneth B. Moss Pdf
Volume 7 of the Posen Library captures unprecedented transformations of Jewish culture amid mass migration, global capitalism, nationalism, revolution, and the birth of the secular self Between 1880 and 1918, traditions and regimes collapsed around the world, migration and imperialism remade the lives of millions, nationalism and secularization transformed selves and collectives, utopias beckoned, and new kinds of social conflict threatened as never before. Few communities experienced the pressures and possibilities of the era more profoundly than the world's Jews. This volume, seventh in The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, recaptures the vibrant Jewish cultural creativity, political striving, social experimentation, and fractious religious and secular thought that burst forth in the face of these challenges. Editors Israel Bartal and Kenneth B. Moss capture the full range of Jewish expression in a centrifugal age--from mystical visions to unabashedly antitraditional Jewish political thought, from cookbooks to literary criticism, from modernist poetry to vaudeville. They also highlight the most remarkable dimension of the 1880-1918 era: an audacious effort by newly secular Jews to replace Judaism itself with a new kind of Jewish culture centering on this-worldly, aesthetic creativity by a posited "Jewish nation" and the secular, modern, and "free" individuals who composed it. This volume is an essential starting point for anyone who wishes to understand the divided Jewish present.
The Schocken Book of Modern Sephardic Literature
Ilan Stavans
Author : Ilan Stavans
Publisher : Schocken
Page : 619 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010-02-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307490537
The Schocken Book of Modern Sephardic Literature by Ilan Stavans Pdf
The expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492 gave rise to a series of rich, diverse diasporas that were interconnected through a common vision and joie de vivre. The exodus took these Sephardim to other European countries; to North Africa, Asia Minor, and South America; and, eventually, to the American colonies. In each community new literary and artistic forms grew out of the melding of their Judeo-Spanish legacy with the cultures of their host countries, and that process has continued to the present day. This multilingual tradition brought with it both opportunities and challenges that will resonate within any contemporary culture: the status of minorities within the larger society; the tension between a civil, democratic tradition and the anti-Semitism ready to undermine it; and the opposing forces of religion and secularism. Ilan Stavans has been described by The Washington Post as “Latin America’s liveliest and boldest critic and most innovative cultural enthusiast.” And the Forward calls him “a maverick intellectual whose canonical work has already produced a whole array of marvels that are redefining Jewishness.” This new anthology contains fiction, memoirs, essays, and poetry from twenty-eight writers who span more than 150 years. Included are Emma Lazarus’s legendary poem “The New Colossus,” inscribed on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty; the hypnotizing prose of Greece-born, Switzerland-based Albert Cohen; Nobel—Prize winner Elias Canetti’s ruminations on Europe before World War II; Albert Memmi’s identity quest as an Arab Jew in France; Primo Levi’s testimony on the Holocaust; and A. B. Yehoshua’s epic stories set in Israel today. When read together, these explorations offer an astonishingly incisive collective portrait of the “other Jews,” Sephardim who long for la España perdida, their lost ancestral home, even as they create a vibrant, multifaceted literary tradition in exile.
Making It in America
Elliott Robert Barkan
Author : Elliott Robert Barkan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2001-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781576075296
Making It in America by Elliott Robert Barkan Pdf
This collection of over 400 biographies of eminent ethnic Americans celebrates a wide array of inspiring individuals and their contributions to U.S. history. The stories of these 400 eminent ethnic Americans are a testimony to the enduring power of the American dream. These men and women, from 90 different ethnic groups, certainly faced unequal access to opportunities. Yet they all became renowned artists, writers, political and religious leaders, scientists, and athletes. Kahlil Gibran, Daniel Inouye, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Thurgood Marshall, Madeleine Albright, and many others are living proof that the land of opportunity sometimes lives up to its name. Alongside these success stories, as historian Elliot R. Barkan notes in his introduction to this volume, there have been many failures and many immigrants who did not stay in the United States. Nevertheless, the stories of these trailblazers, visionaries, and champions portray the breadth of possibilities, from organizing a nascent community to winning the Nobel prize. They also provide irrefutable evidence that no single generation and no single cultural heritage can claim credit for what America is.