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Author : Deborah Hope Yalen
Release : 2007
Genre : Jews
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Book Synopsis Red Kasrilevke by : Deborah Hope Yalen
Download or read book Red Kasrilevke written by Deborah Hope Yalen. This book was released on 2007. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jeffrey Veidlinger
Release : 2016-02-22
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 168/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Going to the People by : Jeffrey Veidlinger
Download or read book Going to the People written by Jeffrey Veidlinger. This book was released on 2016-02-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A remarkable achievement, demonstrating the vitality of Jewish folklore and ethnographic studies a hundred years after An-sky’s pioneering expedition.” —Folklore Taking S. An-sky’s expeditions to the Pale of Jewish Settlement as its point of departure, the volume explores the dynamic and many-sided nature of ethnographic knowledge and the long and complex history of the production and consumption of Jewish folk traditions. These essays by historians, anthropologists, musicologists, and folklorists showcase some of the finest research in the field. They reveal how the collection, analysis, and preservation of ethnography intersect with questions about the construction and delineation of community, the preservation of Jewishness, the meaning of belief, the significance of retrieving cultural heritage, the politics of accessing and memorializing “lost” cultures, and the problem of narration, among other topics. “Going to the People proves itself a useful addition to scholarship on Jewish folklore and ethnography by introducing major issues in these fields, as well as the historical figures and contemporary scholars who have shaped (and continue to shape) their development.” —Western Folklore “This book’s essays portray the various threads and trends in Jewish ethnography in Poland and Soviet Russia, the US, the new Jewish State of Israel and, eventually, in postcommunist societies. The endurance and evolution of Jewish folk culture is analyzed using techniques applicable to all groups and communities. . . . Recommended.” —Choice “I read through this collection with pleasure and fascination. . . . These are valuable voices that should be heard.” —Gabriella Safran, Stanford University “This volume brings together some of the most innovative research in the field.” —Eugene Avrutin, author of Photographing the Jewish Nation: Pictures from S. An-sky’s Ethnographic Expeditions
Author : Jeffrey Veidlinger
Release : 2013-11-01
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 523/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis In the Shadow of the Shtetl by : Jeffrey Veidlinger
Download or read book In the Shadow of the Shtetl written by Jeffrey Veidlinger. This book was released on 2013-11-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history based on interviews with hundreds of Ukrainian Jews who survived both Hitler and Stalin, recounting experiences ordinary and extraordinary. The story of how the Holocaust decimated Jewish life in the shtetls of Eastern Europe is well known. Still, thousands of Jews in these small towns survived the war and returned afterward to rebuild their communities. The recollections of some four hundred returnees in Ukraine provide the basis for Jeffrey Veidlinger’s reappraisal of the traditional narrative of twentieth-century Jewish history. These elderly Yiddish speakers relate their memories of Jewish life in the prewar shtetl, their stories of survival during the Holocaust, and their experiences living as Jews under Communism. Despite Stalinist repressions, the Holocaust, and official antisemitism, their individual remembrances of family life, religious observance, education, and work testify to the survival of Jewish life in the shadow of the shtetl to this day.
Author : Moyshe Kulbak
Release : 2013-10-15
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 752/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Zelmenyaners by : Moyshe Kulbak
Download or read book The Zelmenyaners written by Moyshe Kulbak. This book was released on 2013-10-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “masterpiece” of a comic novel following four generations of a Jewish family in Minsk torn asunder by the new Soviet reality (Forward). This is the first complete English-language translation of a classic of Yiddish literature, one of the great comic novels of the twentieth century. The Zelmenyaners describes the travails of a Jewish family in Minsk that is torn asunder by the new Soviet reality. Four generations are depicted in riveting and often uproarious detail as they face the profound changes brought on by the demands of the Soviet regime and its collectivist, radical secularism. The resultant intergenerational showdowns—including disputes over the introduction of electricity, radio, or electric trolley—are rendered with humor, pathos, and a finely controlled satiric pen. Moyshe Kulbak, a contemporary of the Soviet Jewish writer Isaac Babel, picks up where Sholem Aleichem left off a generation before, exploring in this book the transformation of Jewish life.
Author : Sholem Aleichem
Release : 1965
Genre : Jewish fiction
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Book Synopsis Inside Kasrilevke by : Sholem Aleichem
Download or read book Inside Kasrilevke written by Sholem Aleichem. This book was released on 1965. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains the stories Dos Naye Kasrilevke, Kasrilevke nisrofim, Kasrilevke Moshav Z'kenim, translated from the Yiddish by Isidore Goldstick.
