From a Distant Relation Berdichevsky Mikhah Yosef
From a Distant Relation Berdichevsky Mikhah Yosef In his short life (1865-1921), Micha Josef Berdichevsky was a versatile and influential man of letters: an innovative Hebrew prose stylist; a…
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From a Distant Relation Berdichevsky Mikhah Yosef
In his short life (1865-1921), Micha Josef Berdichevsky was a versatile and influential man of letters: an innovative Hebrew prose stylist; a collector of Jewish folklore; a scholar of ancient Jewish and Christian history. As a Yiddish writer, however, he remains largely unknown to gen-eral readers. He was at once a peer of the Brothers Grimm, Sholem Aleichem, Friedrich Nietzsche, and a diverse circle of Jewish writers in the Russian Empire and German-speaking countries.
Yet these vivid portraits of a small Jewish town (shtetl) in the southern Russian Empire can speak powerfully to audiences today.With enchanting humor, social satire, and verbal dexterity, From a Distant Relation captures the world of the shtetl in a sharp Originally published in the 1920s, his stories were dismissed by prominent critics and viewed as out of step with the literary taste of his own time.
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