The Schlemiel As Modern HeroWisse, Ruth R.
9780674081390
A Bridge of Longing: The Lost Art of Yiddish Storytelling
David G. Roskies
ISBN 10: 0674081390 / 0-674-08139-0
ISBN 13: 9780674081390
Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr
Publication Date: 1995
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 13: 9780674081390
Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr
Publication Date: 1995
Binding: Hardcover
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A Bridge of Longing is a compelling history of how Yiddish storytelling became the politics of rescue for successive generations of displaced Jewish artists, embodying their fervent hopes and greatest fears in the languages of tradition. Its protagonists are modern writers who returned to storytelling in the hope of harnessing the folk tradition, and who created copies that are better than the original. Behind the joyous weddings that end the fairy tales and romances of Rabbi Nahman, I. L. Peretz, Der Nister, and Abraham Sutzkever; beneath the folksy facade of holiday stories by I. M. Dik and Sholem Aleichem, the Bible Poems of Itzik Manger, the demon-monologues of I. B. Singer, there lies, according to David G. Roskies, an aesthetic and moral sensibility totally at odds with the coarse humor and conventional piety of the folk. Taken together, these writers and their deceptively simple folk narratives weave a pattern of rebellion, loss, and retrieval that Roskies calls "creative betrayal" - a pattern he traces from the weddings of Yiddish fantasy to the reinvented traditions of contemporary Jews. His book is itself a delightful expression of the art of storytelling - it is a warm and vivid account.
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"[Roskies] has produced an often brilliant scholarly volume that will help resuce the 'lost art of Yiddish story-telling' by explaining what it really was."
Richard Bernstein, New York Times, 07/21/1995
Review:"...[an] insightful and erudite study."
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times Book Review, 07/30/1995
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