Antiquariaat Spinoza: Yiddishland
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How the Wise Men Got to Chelm The Life and Times of a Yiddish Folk Tradition
New York, University Press, 2016. 317 pp. Very good copy. Clean, no traces from former owner. Hardcover with dustjacket. first in-depth study of Chelm literature and its relationship to its literary precursors. When God created the world, so it is said, he sent out an angel with a bag of foolish souls with instructions to distribute them equally all over the world-one fool per town. But the angel's bag broke and all the souls spilled out onto the same spot. They built a settlement where they landed: the town is known as Chelm. The collected tales of these fools, or wise men, of Chelm constitute the best-known folktale tradition of the Jews of eastern Europe. This tradition includes a sprawling repertoire of stories about the alleged intellectual limitations of the members of this old and important Jewish community. Chelm did not make its debut in the role of the foolish shtetl par excellence until late in the nineteenth century. Since then, however, the town has led a double life-as a real city in eastern Poland and as an imaginary place onto which questions of Jewish identity, community, and history have been projected. By placing literary Chelm and its foolish antecedents in a broader historical context, it shows how they have functioned for over three hundred years as models of society, somewhere between utopia and dystopia. These imaginary foolish towns have enabled writers both to entertain and highlight a variety of societal problems, a function that literary Chelm continues to fulfill in Jewish literature to this day. ISBN: 9781479828449
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Catalogue: Yiddishland
Remembering a Vanished World. A Jewish Childhood in Interwar Poland
New York, Berghahn Books, 2001. 203 pp. Internally as new. No name, markings e.d. Hardcover, slightly discolored. No dustj. Theodore Hamerow was born in Warsaw in 1920 and spent his childhood in Poland and Germany. His parents were members of the best-known Yiddish theater ensemble, the Vilna Company. They were part of an important movement in the Jewish community of Eastern Europe which sought, during the half century before World War II, to create a secular Jewish culture, the vehicle of which would be the Yiddish language. Combining the skills of an experienced historian with the talents of a natural writer, the author not only brings this exciting part of Jewish culture to life but also deals with ethnic relations and ethnic tensions in the region and addresses the broad political and cultural issues of a society on the verge of destruction. Thus a vivid image emerges that captures the feel and atmosphere of a world that has vanished forever. ISBN: 9781571812810
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The Jews in Lviv (13th - First half of the 20th century): events. Society. people. Preface by Jaroslav Dmytrovych Isaevych
247 pp. Many black-and-white illustrations. Very good copy. Hardcover, wear to top spine. English language. Jewish history in Ukraine. Captions at the illustrations are in Russian, Ukrainian and English. The book uses reproductions from the book exhibition: Lviv: the past and modern times. Jewish-Ukrainian and Jewish-Polish relations are examined. Contains appendices on jewish population of Lviv and Galicia. Jewish history eastern europe and Russia. ISBN: 9785770723144
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€ 92.65 [Appr.: US$ 99.38 | £UK 79.5 | JP¥ 15585]
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Bleter fun yidish Lite / Lithuanian Jews: A memorial book. Text in Yiddish and Hebrew with some English
Tel Aviv, Hamenora Publishing House, 1974. 289 pp. illustr. with many photograps. Very good condition. Hardcover with dustjacket. Yiddish language. Holocaust. Litvaks Jewish History Eastern Europe.
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€ 41.42 [Appr.: US$ 44.43 | £UK 35.5 | JP¥ 6967]
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The Way We Were Before Our Destruction: Lives of Jewish Students from Vilna, Who Perished During the Holocaust. ISBN 9781885563064
Baltimore/New York, Via Press, Yivo Inst., 1997. 221 pp. Incl. Appendix: Documents from Archives, illustr. with photographs. Softcover. This book describes the life in a private high school in the last decade before the Second World War, in Ancient City Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania. What is so unusual about this is that the students, the ones that perished so tragically during the Holocaust, do the narration about the school days. Litvaks. Jewish history Eastern Europe. ISBN: 9781885563064
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Shtetl: A Vernacular Intellectual History. ISBN 9780813562728
United States, Rutgers University Press, 2014. 177 pp. As new. Paperback. By examining the meaning of shtetl, Jeffrey Shandler asks how Jewish life in provincial towns in Eastern Europe has become the subject of extensive creativity, memory, and scholarship from the early modern era in European history to the present. Modern Jewish History ISBN: 9780813562728
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Life is with people. The Jewish little-town of Eastern Europe. Foreword by Margaret Mead. 1952. Reprint
New York, International Universities Press, 1969. 456 pp. Foldingmarks in first pages. Sticker former owner on flyleaf. Good copy. Orig. cloth. The culture of the Shtetl.
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€ 15.26 [Appr.: US$ 16.37 | £UK 13.25 | JP¥ 2567]
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