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[null,null,"Autore",null,"Shapiro Lamed <1878-1948.>"]
[null,null,"Titolo",null,"The cross and other Jewish stories [[electronic resource] /] / Lamed Shapiro ; edited and with an introduction by Leah Garrett"]
[null,null,"Pubbl/distr/stampa",null,"New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2007"]
[null,null,"ISBN",null,"1-281-73468-3"]
[{"$nulls":4},"9786611734688"]
[{"$nulls":4},"0-300-13469-X"]
[null,null,"Descrizione fisica",null,"1 online resource (262 p.)"]
[null,null,"Collana",null,"New Yiddish library"]
[null,null,"Disciplina",null,"839/.133"]
[null,null,"Soggetti",null,"LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Electronic books."]
[null,null,"Lingua di pubblicazione",null,"Inglese"]
[null,null,"Formato",null,"Materiale a stampa"]
[null,null,null,"Livello bibliografico","Monografia"]
[null,null,null,"Note generali","Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph"]
[null,null,null,"Nota di bibliografia","Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-221)."]
[null,null,"Nota di contenuto",null,"Pogrom tales -- The cross -- Pour out thy wrath -- In the dead town -- The kiss --  White challah -- The Jewish regime -- The old world -- Smoke -- Tiger -- Eating days -- The rebbe and the rebbetsin -- The man and his servant -- Between the fields -- Myrtle -- The new world -- At sea -- The chair -- New Yorkish."]
[null,null,null,"Sommario/riassunto","Lamed Shapiro (1878-1948) was the author of groundbreaking and controversial short stories, novellas, and essays. Himself a tragic figure, Shapiro led a life marked by frequent ocean crossings, alcoholism, and failed ventures, yet his writings are models of precision, psychological insight, and daring.Shapiro focuses intently on the nature of violence: the mob violence of pogroms committed against Jews; the traumatic aftereffects of rape, murder, and powerlessness; the murderous event that transforms the innocent child into witness and the rabbi's son into agitator. Within a society on the move, Shapiro's refugees from the shtetl and the traditional way of life are in desperate search of food, shelter, love, and things of beauty. Remarkably, and against all odds, they sometimes find what they are looking for. More often than not, the climax of their lives is an experience of ineffable terror.This collection also reveals Lamed Shapiro as an American master. His writings depict the Old World struggling with the New, extremes of human behavior combined with the pursuit of normal happiness. Through the perceptions of a remarkable gallery of men, women, children-of even animals and plants-Shapiro successfully reclaimed the lost world of the "]
[{"$nulls":4},"shtetl as he negotiated East Broadway and the Bronx, Union Square, and vaudeville.Both in his life and in his unforgettable writings, Lamed Shapiro personifies the struggle of a modern Jewish artist in search of an always elusive home."]