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The world of Israel Weissbrem / by Israel Weissbrem ; translated by Alan D. Crown.
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Weissbrem, Israel, 1839-approximately 1916
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Works.
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English.
1992
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Language
English
Published/Created
Boulder : Westview Press, 1992.
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xxxi, 171 pages ; 21 cm.
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PJ5052.W37 A2 1993
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Weissbrem, Israel 1839-approximately 1916
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Modern Hebrew classics.
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Israel Weissbrem, whose complex themes were taken from the lives of educated and wealthy Jews in Eastern Europe at the end of the nineteenth century and whose writings all but disappeared in the twentieth century, wrote in a vein of melodrama and fantasy, with an ironic and frequently savage wit. His cast of characters is extraordinarily diverse and appears to reflect societal attitudes - sometimes sympathetic, sometimes bitterly satirical - toward the religious, the poor, and the wealthy; toward Christians and anti-Semites. The viewpoint of the author himself appears to change as the drama of the novels unfolds.
In his later stories, Weissbrem is concerned with the cause of Jewish nationalism and the lot of the Jewish people in Poland, which is to say, in part, with the invidious horrors of anti-Semitism. Weissbrem was both a Jew and a Polish patriot, and he often uses the novel as a rhetorical forum for discussing the nature of Polish anti-Semitism and for defending his fellows against charges of usury and lack of interest in Polish national life. Frequently these rhetorical devices lead plot and structure: There is an unabashed resort to sentimentality and melodrama and to Coincidence on a grand scale. But Weissbrem's stories, despite these weaknesses that are sometimes fatal to tension and drama, still shed an intense and sympathetic light on Jewish social conditions in Eastern Europe during the second half of the nineteenth century.
Contents
Between the Times
The Lottery and the Inheritance.
ISBN
0813316316
LCCN
92022730
OCLC
60400988
RCP
C - S
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