Description
WRITINGS ON YIDDISH AND YIDDISHKAYT: THE WAR YEARS, 1939-1945 is the first major effort to fill the gap between the Nobel laureates Yiddish and English oeuvre. Knowing that a whole world, a whole way of life, a whole cultural treasure bound up with Yiddish and Yiddishkaytthat they were all going up in flames before his very eyeswas crushing for Singer, driving him to put pen to paper and write. His wartime writingappearing in an intensely urgent tonesought to record not only the customs but also the immediacy of the loss that was taking place at that very moment.
Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: White Goat Press
Published: 11/14/2023
Pages: 181
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 8.03h x 5.11w x 0.28d
ISBN: 9798987707890
Language: English
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