Singing for All He's Worth - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1742610439 ISBN 13: 9781742610436

Publisher: Pan Macmillan Australia, 2011

Synopsis

In the early 1990s, after writing for most of his life in Yiddish, his mother tongue, Jacob Rosenberg decided to switch to English. The period of extraordinary creativity that followed was cut short only by his death in 2008, at the age of 86. During those fifteen-odd years, Rosenberg wrote and published three collections of poetry, a book of short stories, a novel, and two prize-winning memoirs that chart his journey from youth in the Lodz ghetto, through the nightmare of the Holocaust and the loss of his entire family, to the rebuilding of a future in Australia.

Singing for All He's Worth brings together twelve men and women from Australian literary and intellectual life who knew Jacob Rosenberg and offer their responses to his writings. It is a colourful and moving collection, each contributor illuminating different facets of Rosenberg's remarkable mind and personality.

As Raimond Gaita points out in his foreword: "All the contributors to this volume were his friends. All esteemed him as a man and as a writer. Many loved him. The love and the esteem are warmly evident in the essays." Singing for All He's Worth will enrich the experience of those already familiar with Rosenberg's work, while helping to introduce him to a new community of readers.

About this title

From the Author:

Raimond Gaita is presently Emeritus Professor of Moral Philosophy, King's College London, and Professorial Fellow in the Melbourne Law School and the Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne. He is the author of Romulus, My Father, A Common Humanity and The Philosopher's Dog. Alex Miller was co-founder of the Anthill Theatre and a founding member of the Melbourne Writers' Theatre. He is the author of numerous works of fiction and has received many accolades including the Miles Franklin Award, the Commonwealth Writer's Prize, and the Age Book of the Year Award. Alex Skovron is a book editor and writer. He is the author of five collections of poetry, most recently The Man and the Map and Autographs, as well as a prose novella, The Poet.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pan Macmillan Australia
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1742610439
• ISBN 13: 9781742610436
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272
• Editor: Skovron Alex, Gaita Raimond, Miller Alex