No Star Too Beautiful

Author : Joachim Neugroschel
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393326178
Total Pages : 746 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book No Star Too Beautiful written by Joachim Neugroschel and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2002 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique and rich anthology of Yiddish stories ranges from the beginning of Yiddish literature through I.B. Singer.

Author : Harriet Murav
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253036933
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book David Bergelson's Strange New World written by Harriet Murav and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-01 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A contemporary evaluation of Bergelson and his works, examining Yiddish literature, Jewish culture, and modernism. David Bergelson (1884–1952) emerged as a major literary figure who wrote in Yiddish before WWI. He was one of the founders of the Kiev Kultur-Lige, and his work was at the center of the Yiddish-speaking world of the time. He was well known for creating characters who often felt the painful after-effects of the past and the clumsiness of bodies stumbling through the actions of daily life as their familiar worlds crumbled around them. In this contemporary assessment of Bergelson and his fiction, Harriet Murav focuses on untimeliness, anachronism, and warped temporality as an emotional, sensory, existential, and historical background to Bergleson’s work and world. Murav grapples with the great modern theorists of time and memory, especially Henri Bergson, Sigmund Freud, and Walter Benjamin, to present Bergelson as an integral part of the philosophical and artistic experiments, political and technological changes, and cultural context of Russian and Yiddish modernism that marked his age. As a comparative and interdisciplinary study of Yiddish literature and Jewish culture, this work adds a new, ethnic dimension to understandings of the turbulent birth of modernism. “Harriet Murav treats Bergelson with the care and sincerity that literary critics have shown other important writers. This is a masterpiece of literary scholarship that will be sure to transform not only how people read Bergelson and who chooses to read Bergelson, but how readers engage with the entire concept of modernism itself.” —David Shneer, author of Yiddish and the Creation of Soviet Jewish Culture: 1918-1930

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Total Pages : 622 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book English Mechanic and Mirror of Science and Art written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Natan M. Meir
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1503613062
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stepchildren of the Shtetl written by Natan M. Meir and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memoirs of Jewish life in the east European shtetl often recall the hekdesh (town poorhouse) and its residents: beggars, madmen and madwomen, disabled people, and poor orphans. Stepchildren of the Shtetl tells the story of these marginalized figures from the dawn of modernity to the eve of the Holocaust. Combining archival research with analysis of literary, cultural, and religious texts, Natan M. Meir recovers the lived experience of Jewish society's outcasts and reveals the central role that they came to play in the drama of modernization. Those on the margins were often made to bear the burden of the nation as a whole, whether as scapegoats in moments of crisis or as symbols of degeneration, ripe for transformation by reformers, philanthropists, and nationalists. Shining a light into the darkest corners of Jewish society in eastern Europe—from the often squalid poorhouse of the shtetl to the slums and insane asylums of Warsaw and Odessa, from the conscription of poor orphans during the reign of Nicholas I to the cholera wedding, a magical ritual in which an epidemic was halted by marrying outcasts to each other in the town cemetery—Stepchildren of the Shtetl reconsiders the place of the lowliest members of an already stigmatized minority.

Author : S.A. Birnbaum
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442614331
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Yiddish written by S.A. Birnbaum and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition of Yiddish: A Survey and a Grammar makes this classic text available again to students, teachers, and Yiddish-speakers alike.

Author : Jerold C. Frakes
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 0815652682
Total Pages : 521 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Early Yiddish Epic written by Jerold C. Frakes and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-07 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike most other ancient European, Near Eastern, and Mediterranean civilizations, Jewish culture surprisingly developed no early epic tradition: while the Bible comprises a broad range of literary genres, epic is not among them. Not until the late medieval period, Beginning in the fourteenth century, did an extensive and thriving epic tradition emerge in Yiddish. Among the few dozen extant early epics, there are several masterpieces, of which ten are translated into English in this volume. Divided between the religious and the secular, the book includes eight epics presented in their entirety, an illustrative excerpt from another epic, and a brief heroic prose tale.These texts have been chosen as the best and the most interesting representatives of the genre in terms of cultural history and literary quality: the pious "epicizing" of biblical narrative, the swashbuckling medieval courtly epic, Arthurian romance, heroic vignettes, intellectual high art, and popular camp.

Author : John Frederick William Herschel
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Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Results of Astronomical Observations Made During the Years 1834, 5, 6, 7, 8, at the Cape of Good Hope written by John Frederick William Herschel and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 990 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Short Story Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 990 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Martine Jardin
Publisher : Devine Destinies
ISBN 13 : 1554877555
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Star of Hope written by Martine Jardin and published by Devine Destinies. This book was released on 2010-12-15 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Polly Parker is tired of hospitals, needles, surgeries and chemo. She wants nothing more than to be a normal teenager, to go to school, to make friends, but it will never happen? There is no cure for her. She knows she hasn�t got long to live and has accepted it. She is at peace, knowing she will finally be free of pain, but did it have to happen around Christmas? While reading a book on her laptop, she quietly slips into a coma, but is awakened by what she thinks is an angel who calls herself Rhuntana. Has Polly finally been released from her pain? When she sees her parents� grief and Rhuntana takes her away, she believes she has died and is going to Heaven, but is it really called Kelhatmor? Or is it a final strange fantasy dream before she passes away€

Author : Hermann Joseph Klein
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Star Atlas, Containing Maps of All the Stars from 1 to 6.5 Magnitude Between the North Pole and 34℗ʻ South Declination written by Hermann Joseph Klein and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: