LEADER 03434nam 2200673Ia 450 001 9910819824903321 005 20240418010559.0 010 $a1-299-46372-X 010 $a0-300-16878-0 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300168785 035 $a(CKB)2670000000335045 035 $a(OCoLC)841171334 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10687945 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000860295 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11429579 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000860295 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10896201 035 $a(PQKB)10509157 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3421193 035 $a(DE-B1597)486364 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300168785 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3421193 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10687945 035 $a(OCoLC)923603202 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000335045 100 $a20100518d2010 uy 1 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe Glatstein chronicles /$fJacob Glatstein ; edited and with an introduction by Ruth Wisse ; translated by Maier Deshell and Norbert Guterman 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew Haven [Conn.] $cYale University Press$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (422 p.) 225 1 $aThe new Yiddish library 300 $aOriginally published in Yiddish as: Ven yash iz geforn, and Ven Yash iz gekumen. 311 0 $a0-300-09514-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction --$tBook One: Homeward Bound --$tBook Two: Homecoming at Twilight --$tNotes --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aIn 1934, with World War II on the horizon, writer Jacob Glatstein (1896-1971) traveled from his home in America to his native Poland to visit his dying mother. One of the foremost Yiddish poets of the day, he used his journey as the basis for two highly autobiographical novellas (translated as The Glatstein Chronicles) in which he intertwines childhood memories with observations of growing anti-Semitism in Europe. Glatstein's accounts "stretch like a tightrope across a chasm," writes preeminent Yiddish scholar Ruth Wisse in the Introduction. In Book One, "Homeward Bound," the narrator, Yash, recounts his voyage to his birthplace in Poland and the array of international travelers he meets along the way. Book Two, "Homecoming at Twilight," resumes after his mother's funeral and ends with Yash's impending return to the United States, a Jew with an American passport who recognizes the ominous history he is traversing. The Glatstein Chronicles is at once insightful reportage of the year after Hitler came to power, reflection by a leading intellectual on contemporary culture and events, and the closest thing we have to a memoir by the boy from Lublin, Poland, who became one of the finest poets of the twentieth century. 410 0$aNew Yiddish library. 606 $aJews$vFiction 606 $aJewish fiction 615 0$aJews 615 0$aJewish fiction. 676 $a839/.09/33 700 $aGlatstein$b Jacob$f1896-1971.$01605293 701 $aWisse$b Ruth R$0793246 701 $aDeshell$b Maier$01605294 701 $aGuterman$b Norbert$f1900-1984.$01605295 701 2$aGlatstein$b Jacob$f1896-1971.$01605293 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910819824903321 996 $aThe Glatstein chronicles$93930455 997 $aUNINA