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Ruth R. Wisse

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Satan in Goray - Isaac Bashevis Singer, Jacob Sloan, Ruth R. Wisse

The Best of Sholem Aleichem - Sholem Aleichem, Irving Howe, Ruth R. Wisse

A Shtetl And Other Yiddish Novellas - Ruth R. Wisse

Jews and Power - Ruth R. Wisse

The Middle East: Uncovering The Myths: P...

The Middle East: Uncovering The Myths: Papers Prepared For A Conference - Edward Alexander, Richard John Neuhaus, Daniel Pipes, Eugene V. Rostow, Ruth R. Wisse, Cynthia Ozick

No Joke: Making Jewish Humor (Library of Jewish Ideas) - Ruth R. Wisse

The Schlemiel As Modern Hero - Ruth R. Wisse

The Penguin Book Of Modern Yiddish Verse - Irving Howe, Ruth R. Wisse

I. L. Peretz and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture - Ruth R. Wisse

The Modern Jewish Canon: A Journey Through Language and Culture - Ruth R. Wisse

A Little Love in Big Manhattan: Two Yiddish Poets - Ruth R. Wisse

The Glatstein Chronicles - Jacob Glatstein, Ruth R. Wisse, Maier Deshell, Norbert Guterman

If I Am Not For Myself - Ruth R. Wisse

The I. L. Peretz Reader - I. L. Peretz, Ruth R. Wisse

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Uncertain, Fugitive, Half-fabulous rated it

15 years ago

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Read for my Yiddish Lit class.In a semester of depressing reading, this was possibly the most dismal and hopeless, but that's exactly what it was meant to convey. The story is somewhat from the point of view of the town of Goray itself, and at times this makes the personal repercussions of certain e...

Uncertain, Fugitive, Half-fabulous rated it

15 years ago

text A Shtetl and Other Yiddish Novellas

I read most of these for a class, but not all, so maybe I'll get to them someday. The collection is pretty good over all, although I really couldn't get too into Bergelson--he works so hard to give us a melancholy atmosphere, and he succeeds... which makes his story genuinely oppressive and boring. ...

Uncertain, Fugitive, Half-fabulous rated it

15 years ago

text A Shtetl and Other Yiddish Novellas

I read most of these for a class, but not all, so maybe I'll get to them someday. The collection is pretty good over all, although I really couldn't get too into Bergelson--he works so hard to give us a melancholy atmosphere, and he succeeds... which makes his story genuinely oppressive and boring. ...

Uncertain, Fugitive, Half-fabulous rated it

15 years ago

text A Shtetl and Other Yiddish Novellas

I read most of these for a class, but not all, so maybe I'll get to them someday. The collection is pretty good over all, although I really couldn't get too into Bergelson--he works so hard to give us a melancholy atmosphere, and he succeeds... which makes his story genuinely oppressive and boring. ...

Uncertain, Fugitive, Half-fabulous rated it

15 years ago

text A Shtetl and Other Yiddish Novellas

I read most of these for a class, but not all, so maybe I'll get to them someday. The collection is pretty good over all, although I really couldn't get too into Bergelson--he works so hard to give us a melancholy atmosphere, and he succeeds... which makes his story genuinely oppressive and boring. ...

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