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  • Potsdam University  (6)
  • Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press  (6)
  • LITERARY CRITICISM / General  (6)
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  • 1
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    Under a Bloodred Sky : Avigdor Hameiri’s War Stories and Poetry (2023)
    Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press
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    ISBN: 9798887190686
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (300 p.)
    Year of publication: 2023
    Keywords: LITERARY CRITICISM / General ; Antisemitism ; Hungary ; Macabre ; Pacifism ; Pogroms ; Supernatural ; Ukraine and current war ; World War I
    Abstract: “[A] gripping mix of stories and poems… interwoven with moments of quiet, affecting beauty… This remarkable work rescues an important 20th-century Israeli voice from obscurity.” - Publishers WeeklyThis book represents an anthology of Avigdor Hameiri’s ten most compelling war stories and poetry. His war stories are unique, and different from his Hebrew writer contemporaries in that they mix the supernatural and macabre with war, pogroms, and antisemitism. These stories and poems reflect like no other the unique complexity of the Jewish soldier’s experience of the most vicious and shocking war the world had witnessed to date - the battles, the agony, the dilemmas faced by the Jewish soldier, bravery versus cowardice, the notion of imminent death, breaking the sixth commandment (Thou Shalt Not Murder), elements of pacifism (particularly involving camaraderie between the common soldiers on both sides of the battlefield and their shared hatred for rank), and more
    Note: Frontmatter , Contents , Introduction , Introduction , Under a Bloodred Sky (Poem) , Christians (or, How My Hair Turned White Overnight) , Silence (Poem) , Revenge , Satan’s Idyll (Poem) , On the Verge , Kill the Lights (Poem) , The Spider , On Guard (Poem) , A Blessed Fall Dawn , Question and Answer (Poem) , Hanale , Matrimony (Poem) , A Night of Vigil , By Hands of Man (Poem) , The Storm , The Filth King (Poem) , Sarah Bänger , The Bereaved Mothers (Poem) , Gift , On Fascism and Its Goal (Speech at the ceremonial opening , About the Translators , In English
    DOI: 10.1515/9798887190686
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    An Amateur Performance : (Reminiscences of a Student in the 1850s) (2022)
    Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press
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    ISBN: 9798887190181
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (250 p.)
    Year of publication: 2022
    Series Statement: Jews of Russia & Eastern Europe and Their Legacy
    Keywords: Jews Fiction ; LITERARY CRITICISM / General ; 19th century ; Jews in Eastern Europe ; Jews ; Modern Jewish literature ; Russian-Jewish ; coming-of-age ; education ; novel ; students
    Abstract: Translated for the first time in English, Lev Levanda's brilliant coming-of-age story of Russian Jewish students on the cusp of modernity in their struggle against religious chauvinism and an oppressive government.Despite being Russia's best Jewish writer of the nineteenth century, Lev Levanda (1835–1888) is barely known in the English-speaking world, with some of his most famous works, like the 1873 novel Seething Times, having yet to be published in their entirety. Another such work is An Amateur Performance (Reminiscences of a Student in the 1850s), which appears here in English for the first time, translated with elegance by Hugh McLean and edited by Brian Horowitz and Conor Daly. A classic in Russian-Jewish literature from 1882, An Amateur Performance describes the rush by Jews to government schools, secular education, and the lights of enlightenment, while also revealing the struggles of these Jewish students on the cusp of modernity, including keen observations on their lack of preparation, their confusion over the new ideas, and their confrontation with the repressive power of the Russian government. In short, it’s a brilliant sociological study of Russian Jewry in the 1850s as remembered by a writer who fought for progress and Jewish integration
    Note: Frontmatter , Contents , Acknowledgements , Preface , Introduction , An Amateur Performance (Reminiscences of a Student in the 1850s) , On Hugh and a Berkeley PhD: Recollections of Hugh McLean, Translator and Professor of Slavic Studies , Index , In English
    DOI: 10.1515/9798887190181
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    When the Menorah Fades (2020)
    Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press
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    ISBN: 9781644692493
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (460 p)
    Edition: [Online-Ausgabe]
    Year of publication: 2020
    Keywords: LITERARY CRITICISM / General
    Abstract: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part One -- Part Two
    Abstract: Zvi Preigerzon (1900-1969), a Hebrew writer in the Soviet Union, wrote this book in complete secrecy, to the extent that he even hid its existence from his own family. The book is about the Jewish community in Hadiach, a small town in Ukraine where Shneur Zalman Schneerson, the founder of the Chabad movement, is buried. The town was occupied by the German army during the war and most of its Jewish population perished. Zvi Preigerzon describes the life of the simple Jewish people and their suffering under the Nazis, with a Kabbalistic spiritual touch: the Perpetual Flame of the Menorah at the grave of Shneur Zalman Schneerson symbolizes the very spirit of Jewish life, which it is said will persist as long as the flame is burning
    Note: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. , In English
    DOI: 10.1515/9781644692493
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    On a Clear April Morning : A Jewish Journey (2020)
    Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press
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    ISBN: 9781644692998
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (150 p)
    Edition: [Online-Ausgabe]
    Year of publication: 2020
    Series Statement: Jewish Latin American Studies
    Keywords: Jews Fiction ; LITERARY CRITICISM / General
    Abstract: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface to the Second Portuguese Edition by Moacyr Scliar, 1987 -- Translator’s Preface -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- Chapter 10 -- Chapter 11 -- Chapter 12 -- Chapter 13 -- Chapter 14 -- Chapter 15 -- Chapter 16 -- Chapter 17 -- Chapter 18 -- Chapter 19 -- Chapter 20 -- Chapter 21 -- Chapter 22 -- Chapter 23 -- Chapter 24 -- Chapter 25 -- Chapter 26 -- Chapter 27 -- Afterword -- Notes -- References -- Index
    Abstract: On a Clear April Morning, by Marcos Iolovitch, is a lyrical and riveting coming of age story set among early twentieth-century settlers brought to an almost unknown Jewish farming experiment in an isolated corner of Brazil. This autobiographical novel is filled with drama, joy, disasters, romance, and humor. It travels from farms where the crops won’t grow to towns where the Yiddish-speaking protagonist falls in love, befriends sons of German immigrants, studies philosophy with the Jesuits, and becomes an important member of Brazil’s literary world. This first English edition includes elucidating historical notes on the origin of Jewish farming communities in the U.S., Canada and South America by the translator, Merrie Blocker, a retired U.S. Foreign Service officer
    Note: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. , In English
    DOI: 10.1515/9781644692998
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    A Russian Immigrant : Three Novellas (2019)
    Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press
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    ISBN: 9781644690376
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (140 p)
    Edition: [Online-Ausgabe]
    Year of publication: 2019
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Shrayer, Maxim D., 1967 - A Russian immigrant
    Keywords: LITERARY CRITICISM / General
    Abstract: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Bohemian Spring -- Brotherly Love -- Borscht Belt -- Acknowledgements -- About the Author -- Praise for A Russian Immigrant
    Abstract: No longer at home in Russia, but not quite assimilated into the American mainstream, the daily lives of Russian immigrants are fueled by a combustible mix of success and alienation. Simon Reznikov, the Boston-based immigrant protagonist of Maxim D. Shrayer’s A Russian Immigrant, is restless. Unresolved feelings about his Jewish (and American) present and his Russian (and Soviet) past prevent Reznikov from easily putting down roots in his new country. A visit to a decaying summer resort in the Catskills, now populated by Jewish ghosts of Soviet history, which include a famous émigré writer, reveals to Reznikov that he, too, is a prisoner of his past. An expedition to Prague in search of clues for an elusive Jewish writer’s biography exposes Reznikov’s own inability to move on. A chance reunion with a former Russian lover, now also an immigrant living in an affluent part of Connecticut, unearths memories of Reznikov’s last Soviet summer while reanimating many contradictors of a mixed, Jewish-Russian marriage.Told both linearly and non-linearly, with elements of suspense, mystery and crime, these three interconnected novellas gradually reveal many layers of the characters’ Russian, Jewish, and Soviet identities. Vectors of love and desire, nostalgia and amnesia, violence and forgiveness, politics and aesthetics guide Shrayer’s immigrant characters while also disorienting them in their new American lives. Set in Providence, New Haven and Boston, but also in places of the main character’s pilgrimages such as Estonia and Bohemia, Shrayer’s book weaves together a literary manifesto of Russian Jews in America
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    DOI: 10.1515/9781644690376
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    The Raskin Family : A Novel (2019)
    Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press
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    ISBN: 9781644690598
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (224 p)
    Edition: [Online-Ausgabe]
    Year of publication: 2019
    Keywords: LITERARY CRITICISM / General
    Abstract: Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR -- PART ONE -- PART TWO -- PART THREE -- IN PLACE OF AN EPILOGUE -- PHOTOGRAPHS
    Abstract: Meyer Raskin is a wealthy Jewish entrepreneur running a large agricultural estate in Belarus on the western outskirts of the Russian Empire in the early 20th century. His wife Chava feels out of place and yearns for the quiet life of a Jewish shtetl. Together they have six children, some of whom help their father on the estate, while others are more interested in pursuing education or getting involved in revolutionary politics. Their lives are interrupted first by the Russian revolution of 1905 and later by World War I, which eventually turns them all into refugees. This is an autobiographical novel based on the author’s family
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