LEADER 04269nam 2200685Ia 450 001 9910963780803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9780791496893 010 $a0791496899 010 $a9780585092997 010 $a0585092990 024 7 $a10.1515/9780791496893 035 $a(CKB)111004365685762 035 $a(OCoLC)811377138 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10588669 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000251716 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11204158 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000251716 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10170647 035 $a(PQKB)11195583 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse14084 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3408122 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10588669 035 $a(OCoLC)42856512 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3408122 035 $a(DE-B1597)736226 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780791496893 035 $a(Perlego)2672524 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111004365685762 100 $a19830808d1984 uy 1 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aStories /$fby Meir Blinkin ; translated from the Yiddish by Max Rosenfeld ; with an introduction by Ruth R. Wisse 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAlbany $cState University of New York Press$d1984 215 $a1 online resource (xviii, 166 pages) $cportrait 225 0 $aSUNY series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture 225 0$aSUNY series in modern Jewish literature and culture 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a9781438450841 311 08$a1438450842 311 08$a9780873958189 311 08$a0873958187 327 $aFront Matter -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Content -- Card Game -- Women -- Doctor Macnover -- The Mysterious Secret -- Family Life: A Chapter -- Troubles -- Incomprehensible -- In a Dream -- Smoke -- The Freethinker: A Shtetl Atheist -- The Little Calf -- A Simple Life. 330 $aNow available for the first time to the English-speaking public, the captivating short stories of master storyteller Meir Blinkin are the charming prose equivalents of the film Hester Street. These delightful and touching stories also give an authentic account of the Jewish immigrant experience at the turn of the century.This collection is introduced by the renowned Yiddish scholar, Ruth R. Wisse, professor of Yiddish literature at McGill University, and co-author, with Irving Howe, of Tales of Sholem of Aleichem. Her introduction provides bibliographical information on Meir Blinkin and places his work in the context of the development of Yiddish literature.Born in the same small town as Sholem Aleichem, Meir Blinkin was driven by poverty and anti-semitism to America. He arrived in New York in 1904; at the age of 25-one of the 105,000 Jews to reach America that year. At his untimely death eleven years later, Blinkin was well known to his Jewish-American contemporaries as one of their finest prose writers, a leader of the yunge literary movement, and a frequent contributor to the major Yiddish periodicals.Meir Blinkin's stories tell us what life was like in the immigrant community, conveying a strong sense of the stresses and changes to be endured. These stories not illuminate the social conditions of the times but provide deft psychological analyses of troubled immigrants, with their conflicting claims of loyalty to the secular world and Jewish orthodoxy.Blinkin is also a master at the evocation of mood, of psychic tensions and the claustrophobia of tenement life. In the best traditions of mimetic realism, he captures the vividly demotic speech of his characters, with their Anglicisms and malapropisms.This unique collection of stories helps preserve the vibrant immigrant world. A tribal memory man, Meir Blinkin saves us from cultural amnesia. 606 $aYiddish literature 615 0$aYiddish literature. 676 $a839/.0933 700 $aBlinkin$b Meir$f1879-1915.$01800714 701 $aRosenfeld$b Max$f1913-$01800715 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910963780803321 996 $aStories$94345630 997 $aUNINA