Yiddishlands : a memoir / David G. Roskies.
"A rich, sweeping memoir by David G. Roskies, Yiddishlands proceeds from the premise that Yiddish culture is spread out among many different people and geographic areas and transmitted through story, song, study, and the family. Roskies leads readers through Yiddishlands old and new by revisiti...
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500 | |a Accompanied by CD featuring the singing of Masha Roskies. | ||
500 | |a The Rebbe Elimeylekh -- The Dybbuk -- Cafe Rudnitsky -- Bread -- Prayer for the Tsar -- Scribal errors -- Malvina's roses -- The watercarrier -- Yeast -- Beloved fatherland -- The black canopy -- May day -- The wooden box -- The last Seder night -- Lisbon -- Playing solitaire -- The soirée -- Cape Cod -- Double feature -- Male bonding -- Études -- Sutzkever's address -- Leybl's ark -- Between two mountains -- Kotsk -- The sale of Joseph -- The two Bulvanes -- Yom Kippur -- New York Jew -- Partisans' hymn -- The menorah -- Dream house. | ||
520 | 1 | |a "A rich, sweeping memoir by David G. Roskies, Yiddishlands proceeds from the premise that Yiddish culture is spread out among many different people and geographic areas and transmitted through story, song, study, and the family. Roskies leads readers through Yiddishlands old and new by revisiting his personal and professional experiences and retelling his remarkable family saga in a series of lively, irreverent, and interwoven stories. Beginning with a flashback to his grandmother's storybook wedding in 1878, Yiddishlands brings to life the major debates, struggles, and triumphs of the modern Yiddish experience, and provides readers with memorable portraits of its great writers, cultural leaders, and educators." "Roskies's story centers around Vilna, Lithuania, where his mother, Masha, was born in 1906 and where her mother, Fradl Matz, ran the legendary Matz Press, a publishing house that distributed prayer books, Bibles, and popular Yiddish literature. After falling in love with Vilna's cabaret culture, an older man, and finally a fellow student with elbow patches on his jacket, Masha and her young family are forced to flee Europe for Montreal, via Lisbon and New York. It is in Montreal that Roskies, Masha's youngest child, comes of age, entranced by the larger-than-life stories of his mother and the writers, artists, and performers of her social circle. Roskies recalls his own intellectual odyssey as a Yiddish scholar; his life in the original Havurah religious commune in Somerville, Massachusetts, in the 1970s; his struggle with the notion of aliyah while studying in Israel; his visit to Russia at the height of the Soviet Jewry movement; and his confrontation with his parents' memories in a bittersweet pilgrimage to Poland. Along the way, readers of Yiddishlands meet such prominent figures as Isaac Bashevis Singer, Melekh Ravitch, Itsik Manger, Avrom Sutzkever, Esther Markish, and Rachel Korn."--BOOK JACKET. | |
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