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Publication
Carl Hanser (1976), Edition: 2, 316 pages
Description
These stories with Jews as central characters range in locale from Europe and the Middle East to America.
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LibraryThing member vguy
Mazeltov! I'm not a great short story fan, but this works almost like a novel. We get a multi-layered picture of Polish-Yiddish-Jewish-American-Israeli life. peopled by artistic, intellectual, eccentric characters, sometimes superstitious, some learned or devout, replete with human foibles and the
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traces an ancient culture. Mostly it is light-hearted, ironic, even the Holocaust comes across as not much more than an inconvenience, until the last story which hits hard. This world is close enough to my own (integrated German-Jewish, with its own Diaspora) to feel familiar yet different. Show Less
LibraryThing member suesbooks
I appreciated these stories and was enlightened regarding different practices and meanings of ritual in Judaism. Many of the stories were quite similar. In some, women were respected, but in others they were presented as either villains or dismissed. The portrayal of immigrants was illuminating. I
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was impressed by the wealth of publications available in Yiddish. Show Less
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Awards
National Book Award (Finalist — Fiction — 1974)
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Original publication date
1974
ISBN
3446121765 / 9783446121768