From a distant relation:

"A lively collection of little-known short stories, monologues, and folktales by a major figure in modern Jewish literature and thought, translated from Yiddish. In his short life (1865-1921), Mikhah Yosef Berdichevsky was a versatile and influential man of letters: an innovative Hebrew prose s...

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1. Verfasser: Berdichevsky, Micah Joseph 1865-1921 (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Redfield, James Adam (HerausgeberIn, ÜbersetzerIn), Holtsman, Avner (VerfasserIn eines Geleitwortes)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Syracuse, New York Syracuse University Press 2021
Ausgabe:First edition
Schriftenreihe:Judaic traditions in literature, music, and art
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Zusammenfassung:"A lively collection of little-known short stories, monologues, and folktales by a major figure in modern Jewish literature and thought, translated from Yiddish. In his short life (1865-1921), Mikhah Yosef Berdichevsky was a versatile and influential man of letters: an innovative Hebrew prose stylist; a collector of Jewish folklore; a scholar of ancient Jewish and Christian history. He was at once a peer of Friedrich Nietzsche, the Brothers Grimm, and a diverse circle of Jewish writers in the Russian Empire and German-speaking countries. As a Yiddish writer, however, he remains unknown to gen­eral readers. Written in 1902-1906, but not published in full until the 1920s, his stories were dismissed by prominent critics and viewed as out of step with the literary taste of his own time. Yet these vivid portraits of a small Jewish town (shtetl) in the southern Russian Empire can speak powerfully to new audiences today. With enchanting humor, social satire, and verbal dexterity, From a Distant Relation captures the world of the shtetl in a sharp realist prose style. Themes of repressed desire, poverty, relations with non-Jews, and historic upheavals echo in a cast of memorable characters. Many of the stories and monologues feature strong female protago­nists, while others shed light on misogyny in the culture of the shtetl. At the border between fiction and reportage, with a gritty underbelly and a deceptive naïveté, Berdichevsky's stories explore dynamics of wealth, power, and gender in an intimate setting that resonates profoundly with contemporary Jewish life."
Beschreibung:Selections from Berdichevsky's Yidishe ks̀ovim fun a ṿayṭn ḳorev (originally published in six volumes in Berlin in 1924), presented here in English translation
Berdichevsky originally published these stories under the pseudonym Mikhah Yosef Bin-Gorion
Beschreibung:xxx, 387 Seiten Porträt, Karte 23 cm
ISBN:9780815611363

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