Language: English
Published by Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, 2017
ISBN 10: 081561084X ISBN 13: 9780815610847
Seller: West With The Night, Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
Trade paperback. Condition: New. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 248 p. Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art. Audience: General/trade. 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 what s in store for them. Zalmen is a freethinker who has come to the rural town to earn his living as a tutor. Yet, rather than teach Hebrew, he plans to teach his students the Russian language and other secular subjects. Residents of the town quickly become divided, with some regarding Itzkowitz as the devil s messenger and others supportive of his progressive ideas. Set during the time of the Haskalah, the great Jewish Enlightenment that was sweeping through Europe, Pioneers is a charming tale of one ambivalent young man s attempt to join the movement and a compassionate portrait of one shtetl on the brink of transformation.
Hardcover. Condition: New. From "one of the great--if not the greatest--contemporary Yiddish novelists" (Elie Wiesel), the long-awaited English translation of a work, Tolstoyan in scope, that chronicles the last, tumultuous decade of a world succumbing to the march of modernity "It is me the prophet laments when he cries out, 'My enemies are the people in my own home.'" The Rabbi ignored his borscht and instead chewed on a crust of bread dipped in salt. "My greatest enemies are my own family." Rabbi Sholem Shachne Katzenellenbogen's world, the world of his forefathers, is crumbling before his eyes. And in his own home! His eldest, Bentzion, is off in Bialystok, studying to be a businessman; his daughter Bluma Rivtcha is in Vilna, at nursing school. For her older sister, Tilza, he at least managed to find a suitable young rabbi, but he can tell things are off between them. Naftali Hertz? Forget it; he's been lost to a philosophy degree in Switzerland (and maybe even a goyish wife?). And now the rabbi's youngest, Refael'ke, wants to run off to the Holy Land with the Zionists. Originally serialized in the 1960s and 1970s in New York-based Yiddish newspapers, Chaim Grade's Sons and Daughters is a precious glimpse of a way of life that is no longer--the rich Yiddish culture of Poland and Lithuania that the Holocaust would eradicate. We meet the Katzenellenbogens in the tiny village of Morehdalye, in the 1930s, when gangs of Poles are beginning to boycott Jewish merchants and the modern, secular world is pressing in on the shtetl from all sides. It's this clash, between the freethinking secular life and a life bound by religious duty--and the comforts offered by each--that stands at the center of Sons and Daughters. With characters that rival the homespun philosophers and lovable rouges of Sholem Aleichem and I. B. Singer--from the brooding Zalia Ziskind, paralyzed by the suffering of others, to the Dostoyevskian demon Shabse Shepsel--Grade's masterful novel brims with humanity and heartbreaking affection for a world, once full of life in all its glorious complexity, that would in just a few years vanish forever.
Condition: New.
Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.
Language: English
Published by Syracuse University Press, 2017
ISBN 10: 081561084X ISBN 13: 9780815610847
paperback. Condition: New. New from the publisher.
Hardback. Condition: New.
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Seller: Revaluation Books, Exeter, United Kingdom
Paperback. Condition: Brand New. translation edition. 221 pages. 8.00x5.00x0.50 inches. In Stock.
Hardcover. Condition: New.
Condition: new.
hardcover. Condition: New.
Condition: New.
hardcover. Condition: New.
Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.
Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 704 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.75 inches. In Stock.
Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 704 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.75 inches. In Stock.
Published by Chicago: Out There Press, 1976
Seller: Philip Smith, Bookseller, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG. 4to, 116pp, printed wrappers with fabric spine. Another impressive later issue of this poetry magazine from 1970s Chicago, includes work by Notley, Berrigan, and a range of others. (Issue dedicated "To the departure of ALICE & TED.") Unmarked copy with 1" cracked area to base of spine fabric and light general wear. Not Signed.
Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 704 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.75 inches. In Stock.
Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 704 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.75 inches. In Stock.
Published by Chicago: MATI, 1976
Seller: Philip Smith, Bookseller, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG. 4to, 76pp, printed wrappers. This enjoyable poetry magazine from 1976 Chicago credited Berrigan and Notley as its advisory board; the covers show Rose Lesniak photos of Ed Dorn, Ron Padgett, Peter Schjeldahl, et al. Unmarked copy from the collection of contributor Opal Louis Nations, small closed tear at head of spine and minor wear/soil (including some show through from staple rust). Not Signed.
Published by Chicago: Out There Press, 1974
Seller: Philip Smith, Bookseller, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG+. 4to, 98pp, stapled wrappers. Sixth issue of this poetry magazine from 1970s Chicago, includes 8 poems by Ted Berrigan, plus Alice Notley, Frank O'Hara (translation of Mallarme), Anne Waldman, Bernadette Mayer, Aram Saroyan, Andrei Codrescu, Lewis MacAdams, et al. Unmarked copy, light cover soil and wear. Not Signed.
Hardback. Condition: New.
Published by Chicago: Out There Press, 1975
Seller: Philip Smith, Bookseller, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG+. 4to, 84pp, stapled wrappers. Seventh issue of this poetry magazine from 1970s Chicago, includes a one-page excerpt from an interview with Burroughs and Ginsberg by Barbara Barg (not in Schottlaender), plus writing by a range of contributors. Unmarked copy (aside from two publisher's corrections to the Contents page), light stains to front cover, some typical (for this title) staple rust. Not Signed.
Seller: Revaluation Books, Exeter, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 221 pages. 8.50x5.50x0.50 inches. In Stock.
Hardback. Condition: New.
Published by Chicago: Out There Press, 1976
Seller: Philip Smith, Bookseller, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG+. 4to, 124pp, printed wrappers. Rare special Women's Issue of this poetry magazine from 1970s Chicago, with all content by women writers. Unmarked copy, light wear. Not Signed.