Jean Claude Grumberg

Author : Jean-Claude Grumberg
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292754582
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jean-Claude Grumberg written by Jean-Claude Grumberg and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introducing the English-language audience to the work of one of France's leading contemporary dramatists-winner of seven Molières, the Pulitzer Prize of France-these plays offer vivid insights into French Jewish life in post-Holocaust Europe.

Author : Jean-Claude Grumberg
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062981811
Total Pages : 71 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Most Precious of Cargoes written by Jean-Claude Grumberg and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set during the height of World War II, a powerful and unsettling tale about a woodcutter and his wife, who finds a mysterious parcel thrown from a passing train. Once upon a time in an enormous forest lived a woodcutter and his wife. The woodcutter is very poor and a war rages around them, making it difficult for them to put food on the table. Yet every night, his wife prays for a child. A Jewish father rides on a train holding twin babies. His wife no longer has enough milk to feed both children. In hopes of saving them both, he wraps his daughter in a shawl and throws her into the forest. While foraging for food, the wife finds a bundle, a baby girl wrapped in a shawl. Although she knows harboring this baby could lead to her death, she takes the child home. Set against the horrors of the Holocaust and told with a fairytale-like lyricism, The Most Precious of Cargoes is a fable about family and redemption which reminds us that humanity can be found in the most inhumane of places. Translated from the French by Frank Wynne

Author : Jean-Claude Grumberg
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780573618260
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Workroom written by Jean-Claude Grumberg and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1984 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named best play of the 1979 Paris season, this is a simple story about seamstresses struggling to recover during the aftermath of World War II.

Author : Jean-Claude Grumberg
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292754574
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jean-Claude Grumberg written by Jean-Claude Grumberg and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of seven Molières, the Pulitzer Prize of France, Jean-Claude Grumberg is one of France’s leading dramatists and a distinguished voice of modern European Jewry after the Shoah. His success in portraying contemporary Parisian Jews on the stage represents a new development in European theater and a new aesthetic expression of European Jewish experience and sensibility of the Holocaust and its aftermath, a perspective quite different from either the American or the Israeli one. Grumberg’s Jews are French to their fingertips, yet they have been made more consciously Jewish by the war and the difficulties of reintegrating into a society in which too many neighbors denounced them or ignored their pleas to save their children. Affirming the new status of Jewish culture, Grumberg’s plays insist on the recognition of Jewish identity and uniqueness within the majority societies of Europe. This volume offers the first English translation of three of Grumberg’s prize-winning plays: The Workplace (L’Atelier, 1979), On the Way to the Promised Land (Vers toi Terre promise, 2006) and Mama’s Coming Back, Poor Orphan (Maman revient, pauvre orphelin, 1994). Presented in the order of the history they record and steeped in Grumberg’s personal experience and insights into contemporary Parisian life, these plays serve as documentary witnesses that begin with the immediate postwar reality and continue up to the end of the twentieth century. Seth Wolitz provides notes on the plays’ themes, structures, characters, and settings, along with an introduction that discusses Grumberg’s place within the emergence of French-Jewish drama and a translation of an interview with the playwright himself.

Author : Jean-Claude Grumberg
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780822203346
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dreyfus in Rehearsal written by Jean-Claude Grumberg and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1983 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: The play is set in a Jewish ghetto in Vilna, Poland, in 1931. A group of amateur actors are rehearsing a new play, written by their ambitious young director, about Alfred Dreyfus, the French-Jewish military officer whose persecution was

Author : Yishai Sarid
Publisher : Restless Books
ISBN 13 : 1632062720
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Memory Monster written by Yishai Sarid and published by Restless Books. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The controversial English-language debut of celebrated Israeli novelist Yishai Sarid is a harrowing, ironic parable of how we reckon with human horror, in which a young, present-day historian becomes consumed by the memory of the Holocaust. Written as a report to the chairman of Yad Vashem, Israel’s memorial to the victims of the Holocaust, our unnamed narrator recounts his own undoing. Hired as a promising young historian, he soon becomes a leading expert on Nazi methods of extermination at concentration camps in Poland during World War II and guides tours through the sites for students and visiting dignitaries. He hungrily devours every detail of life and death in the camps and takes pride in being able to recreate for his audience the excruciating last moments of the victims’ lives. The job becomes a mission, and then an obsession. Spending so much time immersed in death, his connections with the living begin to deteriorate. He resents the students lost in their iPhones, singing sentimental songs, not expressing sufficient outrage at the genocide committed by the Nazis. In fact, he even begins to detect, in the students as well as himself, a hint of admiration for the murderers—their efficiency, audacity, and determination. Force is the only way to resist force, he comes to think, and one must be prepared to kill. With the perspicuity of Kafka’s The Trial and the obsessions of Delillo’s White Noise, The Memory Monster confronts difficult questions that are all too relevant to Israel and the world today: How do we process human brutality? What makes us choose sides in conflict? And how do we honor the memory of horror without becoming consumed by it? Praise for The Memory Monster: “Award-winning Israeli novelist Sarid’s latest work is a slim but powerful novel, rendered beautifully in English by translator Greenspan…. Propelled by the narrator’s distinctive voice, the novel is an original variation on one of the most essential themes of post-Holocaust literature: While countless writers have asked the question of where, or if, humanity can be found within the profoundly inhumane, Sarid incisively shows how preoccupation and obsession with the inhumane can take a toll on one’s own humanity…. it is, if not an indictment of Holocaust memorialization, a nuanced and trenchant consideration of its layered politics. Ultimately, Sarid both refuses to apologize for Jewish rage and condemns the nefarious forms it sometimes takes. A bold, masterful exploration of the banality of evil and the nature of revenge, controversial no matter how it is read.” —Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review “[A] record of a breakdown, an impassioned consideration of memory and its risks, and a critique of Israel’s use of the Holocaust to shape national identity…. Sarid’s unrelenting examination of how narratives of the Holocaust are shaped makes for much more than the average confessional tale.” —Publishers Weekly “Reading The Memory Monster, which is written as a report to the director of Yad Vashem, felt like both an extremely intimate experience and an eerily clinical Holocaust history lesson. Perfectly treading the fine line between these two approaches, Sarid creates a haunting exploration of collective memory and an important commentary on humanity. How do we remember the Holocaust? What tolls do we pay to carry on memory? This book hit me viscerally, emotionally, and personally. The Memory Monster is brief, but in its short account Sarid manages to lay bare the tensions between memory and morals, history and nationalism, humanity and victimhood. An absolute must-read.” —Julia DeVarti, Literati Bookstore (Ann Arbor, MI) “In Yishai Sarid’s dark, thoughtful novel The Memory Monster, a Holocaust historian struggles with the weight of his profession…. The Memory Monster is a novel that pulls no punches in its exploration of the responsibility—and the cost—of holding vigil over the past.” —Eileen Gonzalez, Foreword Reviews

Author : Alfred Jarry
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486112551
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ubu Roi written by Alfred Jarry and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04-10 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stunning, controversial work that immediately outraged audiences at the 1896 premiere with its scatalogical references, features a cruel, gluttonous, and grotesque main character — the author's metaphor for modern man.

Author : Jean-Claude Grumberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9782286168780
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jacqueline Jacqueline written by Jean-Claude Grumberg and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Skloot
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 0299116638
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Darkness We Carry written by Robert Skloot and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1988-04-13 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering an informed critical approach, Skloot discusses more than two dozen plays and one film that confront the issues and stories of the Holocaust.

Author : Edna Nahshon
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004227172
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jews and Theater in an Intercultural Context written by Edna Nahshon and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-04-03 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays by an international cadre of theater scholars, which addresses Jewish theater practitioners, playwrights, critics, financiers and audiences roles in the development of the European and American theater.