Shomer Bachelis Rose (11 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Frontispiece photo, With black and white photos. Nahum Meïr Schaikewitz, also known by his pseudonym "Shomer" (December 18, 1849 in Nesvizh, Belarus ? 25 November 1905 in New York City) was a Yiddish novelist and playwright. Although he was very popular in his time and a giant in Yiddish literature, sometimes styled the "Dumas of Yiddish literature", he was significantly damaged by Sholem Aleichem, who derided his plotting as extravagantly artificial and improbable, characteristic of a cheap potboiler. Schaikewitz was born at Nesvizh, in the then government of Minsk, in the Russian Empire, on December 18, 1849. He distinguished himself as a clever story-teller even as a boy. His first literary efforts took the form of short stories in Hebrew for Ha-Meli?; in this way he became acquainted with such writers of Hebrew as ?ebi Hirsch Scherschewski, Dobsevage, and others. Later he became a business manager in Vilnius, and spent some time in traveling. While in Bucharest he came under the influence of the Jewish theater and resolved to become a dramatic author. He then settled in Odessa, where he became theatrical manager and playwright at the Mariinski Theatre. His play Der Rewizor (Odessa, 1883), an adaptation from Gogol's Revizor (The Government Inspector), proved very successful and showed Schaikewitz's talent as a writer. After the Jewish theater was closed in Russia, Schaikewitz went to New York in 1888, where he edited Der Menschenfreund and Der Jüdischer Puck, two Yiddish-language weeklies. Schaikewitz is the author of several Hebrew novels, all representing Jewish life in Russian towns. Among these are: Mumar le-Hak'is (Warsaw, 1879); Kewiyah Ta?at Kewiyah and ?a'ut Goi (Warsaw. 1880); and Ha-Nidda?at (vols. 1 and 2, Vilnius, 1886; vol. 3, Warsaw, 1887). He also wrote ?ayin (Warsaw, 1887), a novel on Jewish life in Portugal. But Schaikewitz became especially known as a writer in Yiddish, taking as a model, and finally excelling, Isaac Meir Dick. He wrote over two hundred novels in Yiddish, partly historical and partly reflecting Jewish life in the small towns and villages of Russia in the middle of the nineteenth century. As his language is simple, just as was spoken by the Jewish masses in Lithuania, his novels had the effect of greatly decreasing the fanaticism which prevailed in the small rural and urban communities. Among his more popular novels were Der ?a?orz?nikh, Der Blutiger Adieu, and Der Frumer Merder. Many of his historical novels appeared in the Yiddish daily press. Over thirty of Schaikewitz's plays were produced, first in Russia, then in New York, among them being one entitled Tisza-Eslar, on the subject of the blood accusation brought in the Hungarian town of that name. Others included Der Bel Tchuve (The Penitent) and Trefnyak (The Impure One). He was the subject of vitriolic attacks by S. Rabinovitz ("Sholem Aleichem"), who directed against him his Shomer's Mishpa? (Berdychev, 1888), reproaching him for his literary deficiencies. Schaikewitz successfully defended himself in a pamphlet entitled Yehi Or (New York, 1898), showing that his literary problem was to satisfy every plane of intelligence, from the householder to the servant-girl who could not understand the works of the later Yiddish writers. Jacob Adler later wrote of his melodramas that "Nothing so crude as this can be found in Goldfaden. . . [but] the humor in Sheikevitch is more believable.".

Hardbound. Condition: Good. Octavo in badly edgeworn dust jacket, frontispiece photo, 200 pp., b/w photos. Front inner hinge cracked Translated into Hebrew from the Yiddish by Aharon Vaisman.

Hardbound. Condition: Good. Octavo, brown cloth silver lettering, fraying at the head of the spine, 251 pp., b/w photos. Text is in Yiddish. The first part by Miriam Shomer-Zunzer.

Hardbound. Condition: Very Good. Octavo in edgeworn dust jacket, frontispiece photo, 232 pp. Text is in Hebrew. Foreword by Dov Sadan. With an essay by K[alman] Marmor.

Hardbound. Condition: Good. Octavo, brown cloth with wear from the removal of a library label at the base of the spine, 251 pp., b/w photos. Text is in Yiddish. The first part by Miriam Shomer-Zunzer.

Hardbound. Condition: Good. Octavo in badly edgeworn dust jacket, frontispiece photo, 200 pp., b/w photos. Translated into Hebrew from the Yiddish by Aharon Vaisman.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1955 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 156 Shomer-Bachelis, Rose.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1950 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 262 Shomer-Bachelis, Rose,Shomer-Zunser, Miriam.

Hardbound. Condition: Very Good. Octavo, light blue cloth, 154 pp., b/w photos In Yiddish. Inscribed by the author on the free front endpaper.

Hardbound. Condition: Good. Octavo, blue cloth spine with gold lettering, paper covered boards with gold lettering, frontispiece photo, 200 pp., b/w photos. Translated into Hebrew from the Yiddish by Aharon Vaisman. Inscribed on the free front endpaper by the author.

Hardbound. Condition: Good. Octavo in edgeworn dust jacket with a few small chips and the front flap separated at the hinge, 251 pp., b/w photos. Text is in Yiddish. First part by Miriam Shomer-Zunzer. OCLC Number: 568754829.