<p><div>In the years between 1929 and 1939, when Itzik Manger wrote most of the poetry and fiction that made him famous, his name among Yiddish readers was a household word. Called the Shelley of Yiddish, he was characterized as being ?drunk with talent.? This book?the first full-length anthology of Manger's work?displays the full range of his genius in poetry, fiction, and criticism.<br /> <br /> The book begins with an extensive historical, biographical, and literary-critical introduction to Manger's work. There are then excerpts from a novel, <i>The Book of Paradise,</i> three short stories, autobiographical essays, critical essays, and finally, Manger's magnificent poetry?ballads, bible poems, personal lyrics, and the Megilla Songs. These works, which have the patina of myths acquired ages ago, also offer modern psychological insight and irrepressible humor. With Manger we make the leap into the Jewish twentieth century, as he recreates the past in all its layered expressiveness and interprets it with modernist sensibilities.<br /></div> ]]></p>

The World According to Itzik: Selected Poetry and Prose (New Yiddish Library Series)

Literature & Fiction

Manger, Itzik

Literary

Yale University Press

A child born in an east European Jewish community retains his memory of life in Paradise in this novel based on Yiddish folklore

The Book of Paradise: The Wonderful Adventures of Shmuel-Aba Abervo

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

<p>“Electrifying…sparkles with Manger’s song and poetry, and is brilliantly layered with literary and folkloric references.” — Tablet\n“There is something joyous about Manger’s playful language.” — The Jewish Chronicle\nThe raucously witty Yiddish classic about a Jewish Paradise afflicted by very human temptations and pains — a delightful new translation perfect for fans of Michael Chabon\nWitty, playful and slyly profound, thisstory of a young angel expelled from Paradise is the only novel by one of the great Yiddish writers, which was written just before the outbreak of World War II.\nAs a result of a crafty trick, the expelled angel retains the memory of his previous life when he’s born as a Yiddish-fluent baby mortal on Earth. The humans around him plead for details of that other realm, but the Paradise of his mischievous stories is far from their expectations: a world of drunken angels, lewd patriarchs and the very same divisions and temptations that shape the human world.\nPublished here in a lively new translation by Robert Adler Peckerar, The Book of Paradise is a comic masterpiece from poet-satirist Itzik Manger that irreverently blurs the boundaries between ancient and modern and sacred and profane, where the shtetl is heaven, and heaven is the shtetl.</p>

The Book of Paradise: A Yiddish Comic Novel (Pushkin Press Classics)

Dramas & Plays

Pushkin Press Classics

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