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Irving Howe and secular Jewishness: an elegy.
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Critic Irving Howe was one of the major figures of modern Yiddish literature. Howe's moral refinement and delicacy made his reviews, not only of Yiddish literature but of other literature as well, such a joy to read. However, Howe had not always been receptive to his Jewishness. Prior to World War II, Howe devoted most of his time writing about socialism and the fate of the USSR. It was not until the horrors of the Holocaust that Howe was forced to confront, and write about, his Jewishness. I...
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Irving Howe and secular Jewishness: an elegy.
Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought
; It's as hard to return to old-fashioned words as to sad synagogues, those thresholds of faith. You know exactly where they are. Troubled, you can still hear their undertones. Sometimes you come close and look longingly at them through the windowpanes. You who still take your ease in the shadow of
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How Long Does a Language Last? No Star Too Beautiful; An Anthology of Yiddish Stories From 1382 to the Present; Prophets & Dreamers; A Selection of Great Yiddish Literature
Forward
; Irina Reyn, who holds a master's degree in Russian literature from the University of Pittsburgh, reviews regularly for The San Francisco Chronicle and Minneapolis Star-Tribune. Her nonfiction has been anthologized most recently in "Becoming American: Personal Essays by First-Generation Immigrant
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Isaac Bashevis Singer: Master Storyteller
Humanities
; IN AN INTERVIEW about his early years in America, Isaac Bashevis Singer said, "When I came to America I had a feeling of catastrophe. My only hope was to come to America. I foresaw that there would be no rest in Poland. Many people were too optimistic or blind to see the danger. I foresaw the
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Naturalism and Itsik Meir Weissenberg (1878-1938).(Jewish writer)
Midstream
; Born in the Polish town of Zelechow, Itsik Meir Weissenberg started kheyder at the age of three. Although fascinated by the stories of the khumesh, he proved a mischievous and unruly pupil and never did well at formal study, preferring to spend his free time playing with animals in the countryside.
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Reading Yiddish in a post-modern age: some trends in literary scholarship of the 1990s.
Shofar
; From the Age of Enlightenment on, attitudes to Yiddish language and culture have been ideologically motivated. Yiddish was variously perceived as a corrupt jargon or the quintessence of the Jewish soul, a propaganda tool or the idiom of the Jewish collective unconscious. But with the worldwide
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Criminal Intent, Asch Style
The New York Jewish Week
; "There are so many iconic moments that you can just feel their weight," says Caraid O'Brien of her new version of Sholem Asch's "Motke Ganev" (Motke the Thief) that begins performances next week at the University Settlement. Galway-born O'Brien has found an unlikely soul mate in Asch, a
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A genealogy of Yiddish women writers.
Midstream
; Mendele Mokher Sforim begat Sholem Aleichem, who begat I. L. Peretz. So runs the genealogy of Yiddish writers. Mendele the grandfather, Sholem Aleichem the father, and Peretz, by default, the son. Every culture needs its foundational myths, and this is the foundational myth of modern Yiddish
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Revaluating Jewish identity: a centenary tribute to Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991).
Midstream
; If, over the last half-century, Yiddish literature has been able to speak to readers born after the language itself was murdered, the credit is largely that of Isaac Bashevis Singer. Not that he would openly have appreciated this tribute. After all, over many years, he took pains to claim that any
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An 'Actor' Who 'Performs' Texts: Talking with Translator Joachim Neugroschel
Forward
; Sharlet, Jeffrey Forward 06-16-2000 An `Actor' Who `Performs' Texts: Talking With Translator Joachim Neugroschel By JEFFREY SHARLET Mr. Sharlet is a reporter for The Chronicle of Higher Education. `Today's Jews like three things," Isaac Bashevis Singer once said. "Sex, Torah and revolution."
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YIDDISH SCHOLAR CHONE SHMERUK, WON ISRAEL PRIZE IN 1996.(News/National/International)
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
; Chone Shmeruk, widely considered the most prominent contemporary researcher of Yiddish, has died. He was 76. Hebrew University in Jerusalem said he died Saturday night in his native Warsaw of unspecified causes. Mr. Shmeruk, a professor emeritus of Yiddish literature and former chair of the Yiddish
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