03101nam 22006375 450 991078086960332120230120040047.01-282-35284-997866123528430-300-15496-810.12987/9780300154962(CKB)2520000000006625(StDuBDS)AH23050049(SSID)ssj0000295161(PQKBManifestationID)11225715(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000295161(PQKBWorkID)10312722(PQKB)10478177(DE-B1597)485076(OCoLC)1024022712(DE-B1597)9780300154962(MiAaPQ)EBC3420635(MiAaPQ)EBC1807148(EXLCZ)99252000000000662520200424h20102010 fg engur|||||||||||txtccrThe End of Everything /David Bergelson; Joseph ShermanNew Haven, CT :Yale University Press,[2010]©20101 online resource (256 p.)New Yiddish Library SeriesBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-300-11067-7 Includes bibliographical references.Frontmatter --Contents --Introduction --Part 1. Velvl Burnes --Part 2. Mirel --Part 3. The Beginning of the End --Part 4. The End of EverythingOriginally 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.New Yiddish library.Yiddish fictionYiddish literatureRussiaSocial conditionsFictionYiddish fiction.Yiddish literature.839/.133Bergelson David1884-1952,authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1515545Sherman Joseph1515546Sherman Josephedthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edtDE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910780869603321The End of Everything3751371UNINA