A Room of His Own

Gloria L Cronin

• Hardcover | Engels | Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art
• The world of Saul Bellow is peopled largely by men - often intellectuals - who manifest Bellow's unique conception of American masculinity. This work ... Lees meer

Red Shoes for Rachel

Boris Sandler

• Hardcover | Engels | Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art
• This award-winning collection of three novellas features tightly wound tales that seamlessly incorporate diverse genres, including magic realism, sati... Lees meer

The New Country

Henry Goodman

• Hardcover | Engels | Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art
• An abridged version of a collection originally published in 1961, the 42 stories here are written by Jewish writers of the 20th century, including Sho... Lees meer

The Image of the Shtetl and Other Studies of Modern Jewish Literary Imagination

Dan Miron

• Hardcover | Engels | Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art
• While A Traveler Disguised focused on the rhetoric of the speaking voice or the persona in these classics, the nine essays gathered here concentrate o... Lees meer

What Must Be Forgotten

Yael Chaver

• Hardcover | Engels, Jiddisch | Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art
• As Zionism took root in Palestine, European Yiddish was employed within a dominant Hebrew context. A complex relationship between cultural politics an... Lees meer

The Jewish Book of Fables

Eliezer Shtaynbarg

• Hardcover | Engels | Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art
• The fable has a 3000-year-old tradition in Jewish literature, going back to the Bible and the Talmud. Other works of fables abound in the long stream ... Lees meer

The Tears and Prayers of Fools

Grigory Kanovich

• Paperback | Engels | Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art
• 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 ... Lees meer

From a Distant Relation

Mikhah Yosef Berdichevsky

• Paperback | Engels | Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art
• In his short life (1865-1921), Mikhah Yosef Berdichevsky was a versatile and influential man of letters: an innovative Hebrew prose stylist; a collect... Lees meer

The People of the Book and the Camera

Ofra Amihay

• Paperback | Engels | Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art
• Offers a pioneering study of the unique nexus between literature and photography in the works of Hebrew authors. Exploring the use of photography - bo... Lees meer

The People of the Book and the Camera

Ofra Amihay

• Hardcover | Engels | Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art
• Amihay offers a pioneering study of the unique nexus between literature and photography in the works of Hebrew authors. Exploring the use of photograp... Lees meer

Once There Was Warsaw

Ber Kutsher

• Paperback | Engels | Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art
• 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... Lees meer

Early Yiddish Epic

• Hardcover | Engels | Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art
• Unlike most other ancient European, Near Eastern, and Mediterranean civilizations, Jewish culture surprisingly developed no early epic tradition: whil... Lees meer

With Rake in Hand

Joseph Rolnik

• Paperback | Engels | Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art
• Joseph Rolnik is widely considered one of the most prominent of the New York Yiddish poets associated with Di Yunge, an avant-garde literary group tha... Lees meer

Meïr Aaron Goldschmidt and the Poetics of Jewish Fiction

David Gantt Gurley

• Hardcover | Engels | Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art
• Meïr Aaron Goldschmidt and the Poetics of Jewish Fiction presents a bold new reading of one of Denmark's greatest writers of the nineteenth century, s... Lees meer

My Blue Piano

Else Lasker-Schüler

• Hardcover | Engels | Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art
• 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... Lees meer

Petty Business

Yirmi Pinkus

• Hardcover | Engels | Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art
• 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 ... Lees meer

Old Jewish Folk Music

Mark Slobin

• Paperback | Engels | Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art
• Here, translated into English for the first time, is a cultur-al record of the folk music of Eastern Europe. This volume consists of some of Ethnomusi... Lees meer

American Artists, Jewish Images

Matthew Baigell

• Hardcover | Engels | Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art
• Born over a fifty-year period, the artists in this volume represent several generations of twentieth-century artists. Examining the work of such influ... Lees meer

The Musical Tradition of the Eastern European Synagogue

Sholom Kalib

• Hardcover | Engels | Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art
• The Sabbath Eve Service , a three-book set, is to date the most comprehensive annotated anthology of authentic musical liturgy of the Eastern European... Lees meer

Literary Hasidism

Jonatan Meir

• Paperback | Engels | Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art
• Michael Levi Rodkinson (1845-1904) was a journalist, author, and publisher whose literary projects spanned numerous countries and continents. Hero to ... Lees meer

The People of Godlbozhits

Leyb Rashkin

• Paperback | Engels | Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art
• First published in 1936, The People of Godlbozhits depicts the ordinary yet deeply complex life of a Jewish community, following the fortunes of one f... Lees meer

God, Man and Devil

• Paperback | Engels | Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art
• God, Man, and Devil is an anthology of five Yiddish plays in translation, plus two additional independent scenes, all written by well-known playwright... Lees meer

A Room of His Own

Gloria L Cronin

• Paperback | Engels | Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art
• The world of Saul Bellow is peopled largely by men - often intellectuals - who manifest Bellow's unique conception of American masculinity. This work ... Lees meer

Childhood

Moses Rosenkranz

• Hardcover | Engels | Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art
• Recaptures a vanished moment of cultural history. Lees meer