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The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
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The review of Jewish Literature
Suggested reading:
- Sam Apple: Schlepping through the Alps: My Search for Austria's Jewish Past with Its Last
Wandering Shepherd
- Mary Doria Russell: A Thread of Grace. (a story of the heroic efforts to save the lives of thousands of Jewish refugees from 1943 to 1945 in Italy)
- David Bezmozgis:Natasha
- Jennifer Traig: The Devil in the Details: Scenes from
an Obsessive Girlhood
Saul Bellow (b. 1915)
The most successful Jewish American writer (novelist)
- To Jerusalem and Back. 1976
- Mr. Sammler's Planet (1970).
- The Adventures of Augie March (1953),
- Herzog (1964),
- The Victim (1947)
- Seize the Day (1956)
- The Last Analysis (1965)
Bernard Malamud (April 26, 1914 - March 18, 1986 )
- The Natural (1952),
- The Assistant (1957), !!!!!!!
- The Magic Barrel (1958),
- Idiots First (1963),
- The Fixer (1966),
Arthur Miller (1915 - 2005)
- The Crucible,
- Death of a Salesman
Grace Paley (b. 1922
- The Little Disturbances of Man: Stories of Women and Men at Love (1959)
- An Interest in Life,
- The Long-Distance Runner
- Enormous Changes at the Last Minute (1974)
- Later the Same Day (1985).
Israeli Wizard (b. 1939
- My Michael, 1968
- Touch The Water, Touch The Wind
- In the Lend of Israel
Philip Milton Roth (b. 1933
- Goodbye Columbus, 1959
- Portnoy's Complaint (1969)
- American Pastoral (1997),
- I Married a Communist (1998),
- The Human Stain (2000).
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Herman Wouk (b. 1915
- The Caine Mutiny (Pulitzer Prize in 1951)
- The Wind of War
- War and remembrance
Elie Wiesel (b. 1928 ) 1986 Nobel Prize
- Night
- The Jews of Silence
Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904 �1991)
- The Magician of Lublin
- Yentl, The Yeshiva Boy (Movie with Barbara Streisand 1983)
Abraham Cahan
- The Rise of David Levinsky
Henry Roth
- Call It Sleep
Leo Rosten
- Christopher C*A*P*L*A*N
Chaim Potok
- The Chosen
Shalom Aleichem (Sholem Yakov Rabinovitsh ) (1859 -- 1916)
see photo Shalom Aleichem
- Tevye the Dairyman
- Tevye's Daughters,
- Yossele Solovey
- The Adventures of Mottel, the Cantor's Son
Plays
- The Doctor (1887), one-act comedy
- Der Get (The Divorce, 1888), one-act comedy
- Die Asifa (The Assembly, 1889), one-act comedy
- Yaknez (1894), a satire on brokers and speculators
- Tsezeht Un Tseshpreht (Scattered Far and Wide, 1903), comedy
- Agenten (Agents, 1905), one-act comedy
- Yiedishe Tekhter (Jewish Daughters, 1905) drama, adaptation of his early novel Stempenyu
- Die Goldgreber (The Golddiggers, 1907), comedy
- Shver Tsu Zein a Yied (Hard to be a Jew, 1914)
- Dos Groisse Gevins (The Big Lottery / The Jackpot, 1916)
- Tevye der Milkhiger, (Tevye the Milkman, 1917, performed posthumously)
Mendele Mocher Sforim 1836 -- 1917, is the pseudonym of Sholem Yakov Abramovich, Yiddish novelist
- The Little Man in 1863
- The Dobbin, 1873
- The Travels of Benjamin the Third (1878) best-known
- The Wishing Ring, 1889
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"Rethinking the Holocaust "
by Yehuda Bauer
352 Pages, Yale University Press, 2000!
First Edition!
The Holocaust says something terribly important about humanity, says Bauer. He analyzes explanations of the Holocaust by Zygmunt Bauman, Jeffrey Herf, Goetz Aly, Daniel Goldhagen, John Weiss, and Saul Friedl"nder and then offers his own interpretation of how the Holocaust could occur. Providing fascinating narratives as examples, he deals with reactions of Jewish men and women during the Holocaust and tells of several attempts at rescue operations. He also explores Jewish theology of the Holocaust, arguing that our view of the Holocaust should not be clouded by mysticism: it was an action by humans against other humans and is therefore an explicable event that we can prevent from recurring.
Bauer, director of the International Institute for Holocaust Research at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, begins with a short discussion of what exactly historians do. He quite rightly departs from standard practice when he asks such moral and "what if" questions as what could have been done? and what should have been done? Contrary to what he calls Elie Wiesel's "mystification" of the Holocaust, he insists that the catastrophe was a human invention and therefore historically and "rationally" explicable. Separate chapters deal with Jewish armed and unarmed resistance, and with rescue attempts--he examines, for instance, the case of Gisi Fleischmann, a Zionist leader who worked to get as many Jews out of Slovakia as possible, which Bauer uses to discuss issues of gender, arguing that women did not fight for the status of women separately but for collective and individual survival and for honor. Most fascinating for non-Jewish readers are the chapter on Jewish theological attempts to explain the Holocaust and Bauer's valuable synthesis and reexamination of some of the major interpretations of the Holocaust. Bauer ends by looking at how the Holocaust is related to the creation of the state of Israel in 1948 (he rejects, for instance, the notion that "a guilt complex" on the part of Western countries led them to vote for partition of British Palestine).
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface vii
Introduction ix
1 What Was the Holocaust? 1
2 Is the Holocaust Explicable? 14
3 Comparisons with Other Genocides 39
4 Overall Interpretations 68
5 Overall Interpretations 93
6 Jewish Resistance--Myth or Reality? 119
7 Unarmed Resistance and Other Responses 143
8 The Problem of Gender: The Case of Gisi Fleischmann 167
9 Theology, or God the Surgeon 186
10 Rescue Attempts: The Case of the Auschwitz Protocols 213
11 From the Holocaust to the State of Israel 242
Appendix Speech to the Bundestag 261
Notes 275
Bibliography 311
Index 321
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Suite francaise by Nemirovsky, Irene, 1903-1942
Singer, Isaac Bashevis, 1904-
Famous Jews in Literature
Jewish Laureates of Nobel Prize in Literature (Year Nobel Laureate and Country of birth )
2005 Pinter, Harold (1930 - ) UK
2002 Kertesz, Imre (1929 - ) Hungary
1991 Gordimer, Nadine (1923 - ) South Africa
1987 Brodsky, Joseph (1940 - 1996) Russia
1981 Canetti, Elias (1905 -1994) Bulgaria
1978 Singer, Isaac Bashevis (1911 - 1923) Poland
1976 Bellow, Saul (1915 - 2005) Canada
1966 Agnon, Shmuel Yosef (1888 - 1970) Ukraine (Galicia)
1966 Sachs, Nelly (1891- 1970) Germany - Sweden from 1940
1958 Pasternak, Boris L. (1890 - 1960) Russia
1927 Bergson, Henri (1859-1941) France
1910 Heyse, Paul (1830-1914) Germany
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