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UNINA9910456174503321 |
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Autore |
Bergelson David |
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Titolo |
The End of Everything / / David Bergelson; Joseph Sherman |
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New Haven, CT : , : Yale University Press, , [2010] |
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©2010 |
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1-282-35284-9 |
9786612352843 |
0-300-15496-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (256 p.) |
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Collana |
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New Yiddish Library Series |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Yiddish fiction |
Yiddish literature |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part 1. Velvl Burnes -- Part 2. Mirel -- Part 3. The Beginning of the End -- Part 4. The End of Everything |
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Originally published in 1913, When All Is Said and Done is one of the great novels of the twentieth century. Considered David Bergelson's masterpiece, it was written in Yiddish and until now has been unavailable in a complete and accurate English translation. This version by acclaimed translator Joseph Sherman finally brings the novel to a wide English-speaking audience. Bergelson depicts the lives of upwardly mobile, self-aware nouveaux riche Jews in the waning years of the Russian Empire. The central character, Mirel Hurvits, is an educated, beautiful woman who embodies the conflict between tradition and progress, aristocracy and enterprise. A forced marriage of convenience results in Mirel's emotional disintegration and provokes a confrontation with the expectations of her pious family and with Jewish tradition. In a unique prose style of unsurpassable range and beauty, Bergelson reduces language to its bare essentials, punctuated by silences that heighten the sense of alienation in the story. |
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UNINA9910734815103321 |
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Autore |
Kiss Judit |
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Titolo |
More Nights Than Days : A Survey of Writings of Child Genocide Survivors |
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2023 |
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Budapest : , : Central European University Press, , 2023 |
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©2023 |
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1-003-72085-4 |
963-386-619-7 |
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Edizione |
[First edition.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (424 pages) |
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Genocide survivors |
Children - Crimes against |
Holocaust survivors' writings |
Children's writings |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
Biographies. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Cover -- Front matter -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- 1. The Children's Books -- 2. Persecution -- 3. Coping: Refuges and Escape Routes -- 4. The Aftermath: Surviving Survival -- 5. The Next Generation -- Surviving -- Aftermaths -- The Children. Biographical Notes -- Acknowledgements -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back cover. |
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"More Nights Than Days is a unique exploration of the experience of children who survived the Holocaust-including Roma and Sinti victims-and the genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, and Bosnia. Children are among the principal victims of armed conflicts and slaughters; nonetheless, they perceive events through the prism of their unique perspective and have a range of coping techniques adults don't possess.This overview of writings of ninety-one child survivors bears evidence from a wide range of human ruthlessness. The author presents little-known texts along with famous memoirs and autobiographical fiction, with abundant quotations. Many of these are |
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not only compelling as historical testimony, but poetic and stirringly expressive. Yudit Kiss has not written a historical study or literary criticism of the children's books. She explores, instead, what the authors went through and what they felt and understood about their experience. An accessible and captivating reading, this volume presents a close-up, human size dimension of the destruction. The books written by child survivors also describe the resources and means that helped them to remain human even in the deepest well of inhumanity, offering precious lessons about resistance and resilience"-- |
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