Analyzes the development and changing forms of the prototypal innocent through Jewish literature and contemporary works by Jewish authors

The Schlemiel As Modern Hero

Literature & Fiction

Wisse, Ruth R.

History & Criticism

Univ of Chicago Pr

With sensitivity and authority, Ruth Wisse shows how the theme of the schlemiel in Jewish literature has migrated from culture to culture. Beginning with the Ur-schlemiel, the shtetl bumpkin of eastern Europe, Wisse traces his adventures through the works of Rabbi Nachman, Mendele Mocher Sforim and Sholem Aleichem. She then follows his migration to the new world in the writings of, among others, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, Isaac Bashevis Singer and Bernard Malamud.

The Schlemiel as Modern Hero

University of Chicago Press

The Modern Jewish Canon: A Journey Through Language and Culture

What makes a great Jewish book? In fact, what makes a book "Jewish" in the first place? Ruth R. Wisse eloquently fields these questions in The Modern Jewish Canon, her compassionate, insightful guide to the finest Jewish literature of the twentieth century. From Isaac Babel to Isaac Bashevis Singer, Elie Wiesel to Cynthia Ozick, Wisse's The Modern Jewish Canon is a book that every student of Jewish literature, and every reader of great fiction, will enjoy.

I. L. Peretz and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture (Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies)

University of Washington Press

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History

Europe

I. L. Peretz (1852–1915), the father of modern Yiddish literature, was a master storyteller and social critic who advocated a radical shift from religious observance to secular Jewish culture. Wisse explores Peretz’s writings in relation to his ideology, which sought to create a strong Jewish identity separate from the trappings of religion.

I. L. Peretz (1852–1915), the father of modern Yiddish literature, was a master storyteller and social critic who advocated a radical shift from religious observance to secular Jewish culture. Wisse explores Peretz's writings in relation to his ideology, which sought to create a strong Jewish identity separate from the trappings of religion.

Features the works of six major Yiddish poets and selections from the work of thirty-three others with Yiddish and English on facing pages

The Penguin Book of Modern Yiddish Verse

Shmeruk, Khone

Poetry

Viking Adult

From Library Journal A group of poets and writers called Di-Younge (The Young) were among the nearly two million Jews who emigrated to America from the Pale of Settlement early in this century. Wisse, an accomplished Yiddish scholar, tells the story of two of Di-Younge's most prominent members: Manny Leib, a lyric poet who was among the more fortunate newcomers since he found work as a skilled bootmaker, and Moishe Leib Halpern, who saw poetry as a means of shattering reality. The two are presented as part of the history of immigrant Jews in America. Taking the title of a poem by Halpern as its own, this important work of Jewish scholarship will appeal to readers interested in poetry and in the artistic and intellectual atmosphere of the interwar period. Molly Abramowitz, Silver Spring, Md.Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.

A Little Love in Big Manhattan: Two Yiddish Poets

Harvard University Press

Analyzes the major literary works by Jewish authors to chronicle the history of twentieth century Judiaism.

Free Press

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The Schlemiel As Modern Hero

The Schlemiel as Modern Hero

The Modern Jewish Canon: A Journey Through Language and Culture

I. L. Peretz and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture (Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies)

I. L. Peretz and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture (Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies)

I. L. Peretz and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture (Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies)

I. L. Peretz and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture (Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies)

The Penguin Book of Modern Yiddish Verse

A Little Love in Big Manhattan: Two Yiddish Poets

The Modern Jewish Canon: A Journey Through Language and Culture