Yiddish Civilisation: The Rise and Fall of a Forgotten Nation - Brossura

Kriwaczek, Paul

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ISBN 10: 1400033772 ISBN 13: 9781400033775

Casa editrice: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2006

Riassunto

Describes the origins and evolution of Yiddish culture from the thirteenth century to the present, examining its Eastern Europe on origins; the development of Yiddish language, social life, art, literature, music, and occupations; prominent Yiddish artists, philosophers, and diplomats; and the destruction of Yiddish culture in Russia and Europe, culminating in the Holocaust. Reprint.

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Recensione:

“A highly enjoyable and surprisingly positive account of how Jewish culture helped shape European history and vice versa.” –The Sunday Telegraph

“An outstanding survey. . . . Kriwaczek tracks the origins, flowering, and destruction of this unique, vibrant, and tenacious culture with a fine mixture of pride, regret, and eloquence.” –Booklist

“Evocative and precise. . . . An enjoyable narrative that captures the intricacies of a very complicated history.”–Publishers Weekly

“Informative and very entertaining . . . conjures up and re-creates baroque images and marvelous set pieces of feverish activity, long lost towns and shtetls [as well as] wonderful pictures of lost communities of Jews.”–The Irish Times

L'autore:

Paul Kriwaczek was born in Vienna in 1937 and, with his parents, narrowly escaped the Nazis in 1939, fleeing first to Switzerland and then to England. He grew up in London and graduated from London Hospital Medical College. After several years spent working and traveling in the Middle East, Central Asia, and Africa, he joined the BBC, where he spent the next quarter of a century as a program producer and filmmaker. Since leaving television in the 1990s, he has devoted himself to writing full-time, catching up on the unfinished business of a life spent exploring places, times, and ideas. He is married and lives in London.

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• Editore: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1400033772
• ISBN 13: 9781400033775
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 400