Writings on Yiddish and Yiddishkayt: The War Years, 1939-1945

WRITINGS ON YIDDISH AND YIDDISHKAYT: THE WAR YEARS, 1939-1945 is the first major effort to fill the gap between the Nobel laureate’s Yiddish and English oeuvre. Knowing that a whole world, a whole way of life, a whole cultural treasure bound up with Yiddish and Yiddishkayt–that they were all going up in flames before his very eyes–was crushing for Singer, driving him to put pen to paper and write. His wartime writing–appearing in an intensely urgent tone–sought to record not only the customs but also the immediacy of the loss that was taking place at that very moment.

Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: White Goat Press
Published: 11/14/2023
Pages: 181
Weight: 0.8lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.20w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9798988677307
Language: English