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Jewish life : tales from nineteenth-century Europe / Leopold von Sacher-Masoch ; translated and with an afterword by Virginia L. Lewis.
- Title
- Jewish life : tales from nineteenth-century Europe / Leopold von Sacher-Masoch ; translated and with an afterword by Virginia L. Lewis.
- Author
- Sacher-Masoch, Leopold, Ritter von, 1835-1895
- Publication
- Riverside, Calif. : Ariadne Press, c2002.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Lewis, Virginia L., 1960-
- Description
- 212 p. : ill.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- "This work, originally published in Mannheim in 1891, is a collection of twenty-six stories illustrating various aspects of Jewish life and culture in Europe before the twentieth century. Each story takes place in a different country, ranging from England to Turkey, and develops an isolated topic or theme from Jewish life, such as its holidays, cabalism, the Chasidic movement, fanaticism, secularism etc., in a sometimes humorous, sometimes dramatic, and often sentimental fashion. While the endings are always happy, the level of historic realism in the stories is high. Jewish Life offers a richly detailed portrait of jewish customs and culture prior to the deplorable attempt to destroy them during the Holocaust."--Jacket.
- Series Statement
- Studies in Austrian literature, culture, and thought. Translation series
- Uniform Title
- Short stories. Selections. English
- Studies in Austrian literature, culture, and thought. Translation series.
- Alternative Title
- Short stories.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Jewish fiction.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-212)
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Bessure Towe (Galicia) -- Rabbi Abdon (Russia) -- Lewana (Turkey) -- The Meal of the Pious (North Germany) -- David and Abigail (Denmark) -- Shimmel Knofeles (Galicia) -- The Bookbinder from Hort (Hungary) -- Galeb Jekarim (Jerusalem) -- How Slobe Gets Her Sister Married (Belgium) -- Mrs. Leopard (Poland) -- Handsome Kaleb (Bohemia) -- Praised Be God, Who Gave Us Death (Spain) -- Sholem Aleichem (Alsace) -- Machsheve (England) -- The Angel of Death (Italy) -- Haman and Esther (Poland) -- Deliverance (Hungary) -- The Tragedy in Rose Lane (Holland) -- Kitty Parsley (Romania) -- The False Thaler (South Germany) -- Two Doctors (Austria) -- The Iliad of Pultoff (Russia) -- The Story of the Roman Matron (Sweden) -- Thou Shalt Not Kill (Croatia) -- Bear and Wolf (Switzerland) -- Two Kinds of Nobility (France).
- ISBN
- 1572411147 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2002074550
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library