American Artists, Jewish Images

Matthew Baigell

• Hardcover | Engels | Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art
• Born over a fifty-year period, the artists in this volume represent several generations of twentieth-century artists. Examining the work of such influ... Lees meer

From Our Springtime

Reuben Iceland

• Paperback | Engels | Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art
• In New York in 1907, a group of avant-garde Yiddish poets came together to transform Yiddish literature. Seeking a pure artistic expression, they woul... Lees meer

The Tears and Prayers of Fools

Grigory Kanovich

• Paperback | Engels | Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art
• This extraordinary novel is part of Grigory Kanovich's "Litvak saga," his tribute to Jewish life before the Holocaust. Set in a small Lithuanian town ... Lees meer

Social Concern and Left Politics in Jewish American Art: 1880-1940

Matthew Baigell

• Hardcover | Engels | Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art
• This book explores the important and barely examined connections between the humanitarian concerns embedded in the religious heritage of Jewish Americ... Lees meer

After Weegee

Daniel Morris

• Hardcover | Engels | Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art
• Examining a range of styles from the gritty vernacular sensibility of Weegee (Arthur Fellig) to the glitzy theatricality of Annie Leibovitz, Morris ta... Lees meer

My Blue Piano

Else Lasker-Schuler

• Hardcover | Engels | Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art
• Else Lasker-Schüler (1869-1945) was born into an affluent German Jewish family. Following the death of her parents and the dissolution of her marriage... Lees meer

Petty Business

Yirmi Pinkus

• Hardcover | Engels | Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art
• Winner of The Israel Institute's Literary Prize As they do every year, Yosef Zinman, a well-to-do Tel Aviv grocer, and his beloved wife Zippi plan a v... Lees meer

Pioneers

S An-Ski

• Hardcover | Engels | Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art
• When young Zalmen Itzkowitz steps off the train on a dark, dreary day at the close of the nineteenth century, the residents of Miloslavka have no idea... Lees meer

A Traveler Disguised

Dan Miron

• Paperback | Engels | Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art
• In an exposition of writer S.Y. Abramovitsh, this work shows the symbolic importance of his central character, Mendele the Bookseller, and explores th... Lees meer

Here and Now

Todd Hasak-Lowy

• Hardcover | Engels | Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art
• The emergence of Zionism in the late nineteenth-century and the evolution of Zionist society in Palestine were profoundly influenced by the Hebrew lit... Lees meer

Letters to America

• Paperback | Engels | Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art
• Reuven Ben-Yosef (1937-2001) was born Robert Eliot Reiss to an assimilated Jewish family in New York. He switched from writing English poetry to Hebre... Lees meer

The Holocaust in American Film

Judith Doneson

• Paperback | Engels | Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art
• This work offers insights into how specific films influenced the Americanization of the Holocaust and how the medium per se helped seed that event int... Lees meer

Recovering Yiddishland

Merle L Bachman

• Hardcover | Engels | Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art
• According to traditional narratives of assimilation, in the bargain made for an American identity, Jews freely surrendered Yiddish language and cultur... Lees meer

People of Godlbozhits

Leyb Rashkin

• Hardcover | Engels | Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art
• First published in 1936, The People of Godlbozhits depicts the ordinary yet deeply complex life of a Jewish community, following the fortunes of one f... Lees meer

People of the Book and the Camera

Ofra Amihay

• Hardcover | Engels | Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art
• Amihay offers a pioneering study of the unique nexus between literature and photography in the works of Hebrew authors. Exploring the use of photograp... Lees meer

Odyssey of an Apple Thief

Moishe Rozenbaumas

• Hardcover | Engels | Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art
• In The Odyssey of an Apple Thief, Moishe Rozenbaumas (1922-2016) recounts his fascinating life, from his Lithuanian boyhood, to the fraught experience... Lees meer

Paul Celan

Petre Solomon

• Hardcover | Engels | Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art
• In the immediate aftermath of World War II, Paul Celan moved to Bucharest, where he spent more than two years working as a translator at Carta Rusa pu... Lees meer

Benjamin Fondane's Ulysses

Benjamin Fondane

• Hardcover | Engels | Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art
• From 1923, when he emigrated from Bucharest, to his deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1944, Benjamin Fondane made a unique and independent-minded c... Lees meer

Yiddish Poetry and the Tuberculosis Sanatorium

Ernest B Gilman

• Hardcover | Engels | Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art
• Part literary history and part medical sociology, Gilman's book chronicles the careers of three major immigrant Yiddish poets of the twentieth century... Lees meer

Café Shira

David Ehrlich

• Paperback | Engels | Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art
• New to Jerusalem and to adulthood, Rutha serves Café Shira's devoted customers with a quiet compassion and a sensitive gaze, collecting their stories ... Lees meer

Vilna My Vilna

Abraham Karpinowitz

• Paperback | Engels | Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art
• Winner 2016 J.I. Segal Translation Award for a Book on a Jewish Theme, 2016 Canadian Jewish Literary Award for Yiddish Translation, and Selected for H... Lees meer

Bridging the Divide

• Paperback | Engels | Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art
• Raised in a Ladino-speaking family of Bulgarian Jewish immigrants, Pinhas-Cohen fuses the ancient Sephardic chant of her childhood with the contempora... Lees meer

Childhood

Moses Rosenkranz

• Hardcover | Engels | Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art
• Translated from the original Kindheit, written in 1958 and published in German in 2003, David Dollenmayer's edition makes this remarkable work availab... Lees meer

The Musical Tradition of the Eastern European Synagogue

Sholom Kalib

• Hardcover | Engels | Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art
• This six-book set, is to date the most comprehensive annotated anthology of the authentic musical liturgy of the Eastern European synagogue Sabbath da... Lees meer