03471nam 2200673Ia 450 991046312230332120211028204321.01-299-46372-X0-300-16878-010.12987/9780300168785(CKB)2670000000335045(OCoLC)841171334(CaPaEBR)ebrary10687945(SSID)ssj0000860295(PQKBManifestationID)11429579(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000860295(PQKBWorkID)10896201(PQKB)10509157(MiAaPQ)EBC3421193(DE-B1597)486364(DE-B1597)9780300168785(Au-PeEL)EBL3421193(CaPaEBR)ebr10687945(OCoLC)923603202(EXLCZ)99267000000033504520100518d2010 uy 1engurcn|||||||||txtccrThe Glatstein chronicles[electronic resource] /Jacob Glatstein ; edited and with an introduction by Ruth Wisse ; translated by Maier Deshell and Norbert GutermanNew Haven [Conn.] Yale University Pressc20101 online resource (422 p.)The new Yiddish libraryOriginally published in Yiddish as: Ven yash iz geforn, and Ven Yash iz gekumen.0-300-09514-7 Includes bibliographical references.Front matter --Contents --Introduction --Book One: Homeward Bound --Book Two: Homecoming at Twilight --Notes --AcknowledgmentsIn 1934, with World War II on the horizon, writer Jacob Glatstein (1896-1971) traveled from his home in America to his native Poland to visit his dying mother. One of the foremost Yiddish poets of the day, he used his journey as the basis for two highly autobiographical novellas (translated as The Glatstein Chronicles) in which he intertwines childhood memories with observations of growing anti-Semitism in Europe. Glatstein's accounts "stretch like a tightrope across a chasm," writes preeminent Yiddish scholar Ruth Wisse in the Introduction. In Book One, "Homeward Bound," the narrator, Yash, recounts his voyage to his birthplace in Poland and the array of international travelers he meets along the way. Book Two, "Homecoming at Twilight," resumes after his mother's funeral and ends with Yash's impending return to the United States, a Jew with an American passport who recognizes the ominous history he is traversing. The Glatstein Chronicles is at once insightful reportage of the year after Hitler came to power, reflection by a leading intellectual on contemporary culture and events, and the closest thing we have to a memoir by the boy from Lublin, Poland, who became one of the finest poets of the twentieth century.New Yiddish library.JewsFictionJewish fictionElectronic books.JewsJewish fiction.839/.09/33Glatstein Jacob1896-1971.1051620Wisse Ruth R793246Deshell Maier1051621Guterman Norbert1900-1984.1051622Glatstein Jacob1896-1971.1051620MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910463122303321The Glatstein chronicles2482256UNINA