The History of Yiddish Literature in the Nineteenth Century

The History of Yiddish Literature in the Nineteenth Century
Title The History of Yiddish Literature in the Nineteenth Century PDF eBook
Author Leo Wiener
Publisher New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Pages 430
Release 1899
Genre Yiddish literature
ISBN

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Yiddish Fiction and the Crisis of Modernity, 1905-1914

Yiddish Fiction and the Crisis of Modernity, 1905-1914
Title Yiddish Fiction and the Crisis of Modernity, 1905-1914 PDF eBook
Author Mikhail Krutikov
Publisher
Pages 248
Release 2001
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0804735468

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This book examines representations of modernity in Yiddish literature between the Russian revolution of 1905 and the First World War. Within Jewish society, modernity was often experienced as a series of incursions and threats to traditional Jewish life. Writers explored these perceived crises in their work, in the process reconsidering the role and function of Yiddish literature itself.

Moshkeleh the Thief

Moshkeleh the Thief
Title Moshkeleh the Thief PDF eBook
Author Sholem Aleichem
Publisher U of Nebraska Press
Pages 73
Release 2021-09
Genre Fiction
ISBN 082761876X

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This first English translation of Sholom Aleichem's rediscovered novel, Moshkeleh the Thief, has a riveting plot, an unusual love story, and a keenly observed portrayal of an underclass Jew replete with characters never before been seen in Yiddish literature. The eponymous hero, Moshkeleh, is a robust chap and horse thief. When Tsireleh, daughter of a tavern keeper, flees to a monastery with the man she loves--a non-Jew she met at the tavern--the humiliated tavern keeper's family turns to Moshkeleh for help, not knowing he too is in love with her. For some unknown reason, this innovative novel does not appear in the standard twenty-eight-volume edition of Sholom Aleichem's collected works, published after his death. Strikingly, Moshkeleh the Thief shows Jews interacting with non-Jews in the Russian Pale of Settlement--a groundbreaking theme in modern Yiddish literature. This novel is also important for Sholom Aleichem's approach to his material. Yiddish literature had long maintained a tradition of edelkeyt, refinement. Authors eschewed violence, the darker side of life, and people on the fringe of respectability. Moshkeleh thus enters a Jewish arena not hitherto explored in a novel.

The History of Yiddish Literature in the Nineteenth Century

The History of Yiddish Literature in the Nineteenth Century
Title The History of Yiddish Literature in the Nineteenth Century PDF eBook
Author Leo Wiener
Publisher
Pages 420
Release 2019-02-08
Genre
ISBN 9783337738563

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Classic Yiddish Stories of S. Y. Abramovitsh, Sholem Aleichem, and I. L. Peretz

Classic Yiddish Stories of S. Y. Abramovitsh, Sholem Aleichem, and I. L. Peretz
Title Classic Yiddish Stories of S. Y. Abramovitsh, Sholem Aleichem, and I. L. Peretz PDF eBook
Author Ken Frieden
Publisher Syracuse University Press
Pages 306
Release 2011-09-14
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0815650884

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Two novellas by S. Y. Abramovitsh open this collection of the best short works by three influential nineteenth-century Jewish authors. Abra- movitsh’s alter ego—Mendele the Book Peddler—introduces himself and narrates both The Little Man and Fishke the Lame. His cast of characters includes Isaac Abraham as tailor’s apprentice, choirboy, and corrupt businessman; Mendele’s friend Wine ’n’ Candles Alter; and Fishke, who travels through the Ukraine with a caravan of beggars. Sholem Aleichem’s lively stories reintroduce us to Tevye, the gregarious dairyman, as he describes the pleasures of raising his independent-minded daughters. These are followed by short monologues in which Aleichem gives voice to unforgettable characters from Eastern Europe to the Lower East Side. Finally, I. L. Peretz’s neo-hasidic tales draw on hasidic traditions in the service of modern literature. These stories provide an unsentimental look back at Jewish life in Eastern Europe. Although nostalgia occasionally colors their prose, the writers were social critics who understood the shortcomings of shtetl life. For the general reader, these translations breathe new life into the extraordinary worlds of Yiddish literature. The introduction, glossary, and biographical essays contemporaneous to each author put those worlds into context, making the book indispensable to students and scholars of Yiddish culture.

Journey to a Nineteenth-Century Shtetl

Journey to a Nineteenth-Century Shtetl
Title Journey to a Nineteenth-Century Shtetl PDF eBook
Author Yekhezkel Kotik
Publisher Wayne State University Press
Pages 543
Release 2008-04-09
Genre History
ISBN 0814337333

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The first annotated English edition of a classic early-twentieth-century Yiddish memoir that vividly describes Jewish life in a small Eastern European town. Originally published in Warsaw in 1913, this beautifully written memoir offers a panoramic description of the author’s experiences growing up in Kamieniec Litewski, a Polish shtetl connected with many important events in the history of nineteenth-century Eastern European Jewry. Although the way of life portrayed in this memoir has disappeared, the historical, cultural, and folkoric material it contains will be of major interest to historians and general readers alike. Kotik’s story is the saga of a wealthy and influential family through four generations. Masterfully interwoven in this tale are colorful vignettes featuring Kotik’s family and neighbors, including rabbis and zaddikim, merchants and the poor, hasidim and mitnaggedim, scholars and illiterates, believers and heretics, matchmakers and informers, and teachers and musicians. Stories of personal warmth and despair intermingle with descriptions of the rise and decline of Jewish communal institutions and descriptions or the relationships between Jews, Russian authorities, and Polish lords. Such events as the brutal decrees of Tsar Nicholas I, the abolishment of the Jewish communal board known as the Kahal, and the Polish revolts against Russia are reflected in the lives of these people. The English edition includes a complete translation of the first volume of memoirs and contains notes elucidating terms, names, and customs, as well as bibliographical references to the research literature. The book not only acquaints new readers with the talent of a unique storyteller but also presents an important document of Jewish life during a fascinating era.

The History of Yiddish Literature in the Nineteenth Century

The History of Yiddish Literature in the Nineteenth Century
Title The History of Yiddish Literature in the Nineteenth Century PDF eBook
Author Leo Wiener
Publisher
Pages 426
Release 1899
Genre Yiddish literature
ISBN

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