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From a Distant Relation (Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art) by Mikhah Yosef Berdichevsky, James Adam Redfield (transl.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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"A lively collection of little-known short stories, monologues, and folktales by a major figure in modern Jewish literature and thought, translated from Yiddish. In his short life (1865–1921), Mikhah Yosef Berdichevsky was a versatile and influential man of letters: an innovative Hebrew prose stylist; a collector of Jewish folklore; a scholar of ancient Jewish and Christian history. He was at once a peer of Friedrich Nietzsche, the Brothers Grimm, and a diverse circle of Jewish writers in the Russian Empire and German-speaking countries. As a Yiddish writer, however, he remains unknown to gen­eral readers. Written in 1902-1906, but not published in full until the 1920s, his stories were dismissed by prominent critics and viewed as out of step with the literary taste of his own time. Yet these vivid portraits of a small Jewish town (shtetl) in the southern Russian Empire can speak powerfully to new audiences today. With enchanting humor, social satire, and verbal dexterity, From a Distant Relation captures the world of the shtetl in a sharp realist prose style. Themes of repressed desire, poverty, relations with non-Jews, and historic upheavals echo in a cast of memorable characters

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Author

Mikhah Yosef Berdichevsky, James Adam Redfield (transl.)

Publisher

Syracuse University Press

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9780815611363

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Humanities