A bridge of longing : the lost art of Yiddish storytelling / David G. Roskies

Publication | Library Call Number: PJ5124 .R67 1996

Format: Book
Author/Creator: Roskies, David G., 1948-
Published: Cambridge, Mass : Harvard University Press, 1996
Includes bibliographical references and index
Language: English
Edition: 1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed

Physical Description: x, 419 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: The people of the lost book
The master of prayer : Nahman of Bratslav
The master of lore : Isaac Meir Dik
The conjurer : I.L. Peretz
Mythologist of the mundane : Sholem Aleichem
The storyteller as high priest : Der Nister
The last of the Purim players : Itzik manger
The demon as storyteller : Isaac Bashevis Singer
Estates of memory : after the Holocaust.
ISBN: 0674081404
9780674081406 (pbk.)
0674081390 (cloth)
9780674081390 (cloth)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Yiddish literature--History and criticism.
Storytelling.
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