Yiddishlands A Memoir 1st Edition by David Roskies ISBN 0814333974 978-0814333976

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ISBN 10: 0814333974
ISBN 13: 978-0814333976
Author: David Roskies

A rich, sweeping memoir by David G. Roskies, Yiddishlands proceeds from the premise that Yiddish culture is spread out among many different people and geographic areas and transmitted through story, song, study, and the family. Roskies leads readers through Yiddishlands old and new by revisiting his personal and professional experiences and retelling his remarkable family saga in a series of lively, irreverent, and interwoven stories. Beginning with a flashback to his grandmother’s storybook wedding in 1878, Yiddishlands brings to life the major debates, struggles, and triumphs of the modern Yiddish experience, and provides readers with memorable portraits of its great writers, cultural leaders, and educators.

Roskies’s story centers around Vilna, Lithuania, where his mother, Masha, was born in 1906 and where her mother, Fradl Matz, ran the legendary Matz Press, a publishing house that distributed prayer books, Bibles, and popular Yiddish literature. After falling in love with Vilna’s cabaret culture, an older man, and finally a fellow student with elbow patches on his jacket, Masha and her young family are forced to flee Europe for Montreal, via Lisbon and New York. It is in Montreal that Roskies, Masha’s youngest child, comes of age, entranced by the larger-than-life stories of his mother and the writers, artists, and performers of her social circle. Roskies recalls his own intellectual odyssey as a Yiddish scholar; his life in the original Havurah religious commune in Somerville, Massachusetts, in the 1970s; his struggle with the notion of aliyah while studying in Israel; his visit to Russia at the height of the Soviet Jewry movement; and his confrontation with his parents’ memories in a bittersweet pilgrimage to Poland. Along the way, readers of Yiddishlands meet such prominent figures as Isaac Bashevis Singer, Melekh Ravitch, Itsik Manger, Avrom Sutzkever, Esther Markish, and Rachel Korn.

With Yiddishlands, readers take a whirlwind tour of modern Yiddish culture, from its cabarets and literary salons to its fierce ideological rivalries and colorful personalities. Roskies’s memoir will be essential reading for students of the recent Jewish past and of the living Yiddish present.

Yiddishlands A Memoir 1st  Table of contents:

I Table Talk

1. The Rebbe Elimeylekh

2. The Dybbuk

3. Café Rudnitsky

4. Bread

5. Prayer for the Tsar

6. Scribal Errors

7. Malvina’s Roses

8. The Watercarrier

9. Yeast

10. Beloved Fatherland

11. The Black Canopy

12. May Day

13. The Wooden Box

14. The Last Seder Night

15. Lisbon

II Talking Back

16. Playing Solitaire

17. The Soirée

18. Cape Cod

19. Double Feature

20. Male Bonding

21. Études

III Jewspeak

22. Sutzkever’s Address

23. Leybl’s Ark

24. Between Two Mountains

25. Kotsk

26. The Sale of Joseph

27. The Two Bulvanes

28. Yom Kippur

29. New York Jew

30. Partisans’ Hymn

31. The Menorah

32. Dream House

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