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Genre/Form: | Jewish fiction short stories Short stories Fiction Translations Nouvelles Translations into English Romans, nouvelles, etc |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Sacher-Masoch, Leopold, Ritter von, 1835-1895. Jewish life. Riverside, Calif. : Ariadne Press, ©2002 (OCoLC)606898980 |
Named Person: | Leopold Sacher-Masoch, Ritter von; Leopold Sacher-Masoch, Ritter von; Leopold Sacher-Masoch, Ritter von; Leopold von Sacher-Masoch |
Material Type: | Fiction, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Leopold Sacher-Masoch, Ritter von; Virginia L Lewis |
ISBN: | 1572411147 9781572411142 |
OCLC Number: | 49936251 |
Language Note: | English. |
Description: | 212 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. |
Contents: | Bessure Towe (Galicia) -- Rabbi Abdon (Russia) -- Lewana (Turkey) -- The Meal of the Pious (North Germany) -- David and Abigail (Denmark) -- Shimmel Knofeles (Galicia) -- The Bookbinder from Hort (Hungary) -- Galeb Jekarim (Jerusalem) -- How Slobe Gets Her Sister Married (Belgium) -- Mrs. Leopard (Poland) -- Handsome Kaleb (Bohemia) -- Praised Be God, Who Gave Us Death (Spain) -- Sholem Aleichem (Alsace) -- Machsheve (England) -- The Angel of Death (Italy) -- Haman and Esther (Poland) -- Deliverance (Hungary) -- The Tragedy in Rose Lane (Holland) -- Kitty Parsley (Romania) -- The False Thaler (South Germany) -- Two Doctors (Austria) -- The Iliad of Pultoff (Russia) -- The Story of the Roman Matron (Sweden) -- Thou Shalt Not Kill (Croatia) -- Bear and Wolf (Switzerland) -- Two Kinds of Nobility (France). |
Series Title: | Studies in Austrian literature, culture, and thought., Translation series. |
Other Titles: | Short stories. |
Responsibility: | Leopold von Sacher-Masoch ; translated and with an afterword by Virginia L. Lewis. |
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Abstract:
"This work, originally published in Mannheim in 1891, is a collection of twenty-six stories illustrating various aspects of Jewish life and culture in Europe before the twentieth century. Each story takes place in a different country, ranging from England to Turkey, and develops an isolated topic or theme from Jewish life, such as its holidays, cabalism, the Chasidic movement, fanaticism, secularism etc., in a sometimes humorous, sometimes dramatic, and often sentimental fashion. While the endings are always happy, the level of historic realism in the stories is high. Jewish Life offers a richly detailed portrait of jewish customs and culture prior to the deplorable attempt to destroy them during the Holocaust."--Jacket.
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