From shtetl to suburbia : the family in Jewish literary imagination / Sol Gittleman ; illustration by Steven Trefonides.
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| Location | Call Number | Status | Consortium Loan |
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| George Washington | |||
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Gelman Kiev Judaica Collection
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PJ 5120 .G5 1978 | Available | |
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Gelman stacks
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PJ 5120 .G5 1978 (show me on map) | Available | Request |
| American | |||
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LIB stacks
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PJ5120 .G5 | Available | Request |
| George Mason | |||
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Fenwick stacks
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PJ5120 .G5 1978 | Available | Request |
| Georgetown | |||
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Lauinger stacks
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PJ5120 .G5 1978 | Available | Request |
| Subjects |
American literature -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism.
American literature -- Jewish authors. Families in literature. Jewish families. Jews -- Intellectual life. Jews -- United States -- Intellectual life. Jews in literature. Judaism and literature -- United States. Judaism and literature. United States. Yiddish literature -- History and criticism. Yiddish literature. |
| Series |
Beacon paperbacks ; 591.
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| Description |
viii, 209 pages ; 21 cm.
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| Copyright Date |
[1978]
©1978 |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-193) and index.
Presented by the Dr. Ari Kiev family to the I. Edward Kiev Judaica Collection. DGW LOCAL |
| Summary |
Index. Bibliography. Glossary.
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| Contents |
The Roots and growth of Yiddish -- The Emergence of Yiddish -- The Earliest forms of Yiddish literature -- A Literature for women -- Yiddish: East and west -- Revulutions of heart and mind: Hassidism and Haskalah -- Haskalah -- Hassidism -- East European Jewry in crisis: The Threat of the Modern Age -- The World of the Shtetl -- The Shtetl world and the modern world -- Mendele Mocher Sforim -- Sholom Aleichem's "Tevye stories": The Crisis of family life -- Tevye wins a fortune (Dos Groyse Gevins) -- The Buble bursts (A Boydem) -- Modern children (Hayntike Kinder) -- Hodel -- Chava -- Shprintze -- Tevye goes to Palestine (Tevye fort keyne Eretz-Isroel) -- A Sociology of Mishpoche stereotypes -- I.L. Peretz (1852-1915) -- Second generation Yiddish writers -- From old world to new world: I.B. Singer's "The Little shoemakers" -- Yiddishkeit on two continents -- The Tragedy of Yiddish in Soviete Russia -- The Great Shtetl in America -- Yiddish literature in America -- From Shtetl to suburbia -- The Continuity of tradition -- The Awakening -- "Eli the Fanatic": The crisis of Yewish identity -- The Flight of Malamud's Shlemihls -- The Crisis of generations.
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| Genre |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Geographic Area |
United States
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| Network Numbers |
(OCoLC)4003845
(OCoLC)ocm04003845 |
| WorldCat | Search OCLC WorldCat |
| WorldCat Identities | Gittleman, Sol, 1934-
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