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Nusantara
Anthology of Modern Indonesian Short Stories (East Gate Book)
by David M. Roskies, D.M. Roskies
Hardcover, 232 Pages, Published 1997 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-0-7656-0032-5, ISBN: 0-7656-0032-3






Black Clouds Over the Isle of Gods and Other Modern Indonesian Short Stories(1st Edition)
by D.M. Roskies, D.M. Roskies
Paperback, 232 Pages, Published 2014 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-0-7656-0033-2, ISBN: 0-7656-0033-1






Text/Politics in Island Southeast Asia
Essays in Interpretation (Research in International Studies Southeast Asia Series)
by D. M. . Roskies
Paperback, 340 Pages, Published 1993 by Ohio University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-89680-175-2, ISBN: 0-89680-175-6






The Shtetl Book - Augmented Edition(2nd Edition)
by Diane K. Roskies, David G. Roskies, Bernard Scharfstein
Hardcover, 300 Pages, Published 2007 by Ktav Pub Inc
ISBN-13: 978-0-88125-948-3, ISBN: 0-88125-948-9






A Bridge of Longing(Updated)
The Lost Art of Yiddish Storytelling
by David G. Roskies
Paperback, 432 Pages, Published 1996 by Harvard University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-674-08140-6, ISBN: 0-674-08140-4

" A Bridge of Longing is a compelling history of how Yiddish storytelling became the politics of rescue for successive generations of displaced Jewish artists, embodying their fervent hopes and greatest fears in the languages of tradition. Its protagonists are modern writers who returned to storytelling in the hope of harnessing the folk tradition, and who created copies that are better than the original. When the cultural revolution ..."






Against the Apocalypse(Updated)
Responses to Catastrophe in Modern Jewish Culture (Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, & Art (Paperback))
by David G. Roskies, Beth S. Wenger
Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 1999 by Syracuse University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8156-0615-4, ISBN: 0-8156-0615-X

"Jonathan Frankel, Prophecy and Politics: Socialism, Nationalism, and the Russian Jews, 1862-1917 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981), pt. 1. 58. Abramovitsh, "Hanisrafim" [Victims of the Fire] (1897), in Kol kitvei, p. 447. Translations are mine. Cf. "Victims of the Fire" in Gems from Jewish Literature, trans. Elsa Teitelbaum (New York: Pardes, 1953), pp. 28-41. 59. Abramovitsh, " Hanisrafim," p. 447. 60. Abramovitsh, "Sey ..."






The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Volume 9
Catastrophe and Rebirth, 1939-1973 (Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization (Yale))
by Samuel D. Kassow, David G. Roskies
Hardcover, 1,088 Pages, Published 2020 by Yale University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-300-18853-0, ISBN: 0-300-18853-6






Voices from the Warsaw Ghetto(First Edition)
Writing Our History (Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization)
by David G. Roskies, Samuel D. Kassow, Yale University Press
Hardcover, 280 Pages, Published 2019 by Yale University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-300-23672-9, ISBN: 0-300-23672-7






Raising Secular Jews(1st Edition)
Yiddish Schools and Their Periodicals for American Children, 1917–1950 (Brandeis Series in American Jewish History, Culture, and Life)
by Naomi Prawer Kadar, David G. Roskies
Paperback, 312 Pages, Published 2016 by Brandeis University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-61168-987-7, ISBN: 1-61168-987-2






Holocaust Literature(1st Edition)
A History and Guide (The Tauber Institute Series for the Study of European Jewry)
by David G. Roskies, Naomi Diamant
Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 2013 by Brandeis
ISBN-13: 978-1-61168-358-5, ISBN: 1-61168-358-0






The Literature of Destruction(Reprint)
Jewish Responses to Catastrophe
by David G. Roskies
Paperback, 668 Pages, Published 1989 by The Jewish Publication Society
ISBN-13: 978-0-8276-0414-8, ISBN: 0-8276-0414-9






The Jewish Search for a Usable Past(1st Edition)
(The Helen and Martin Schwartz Lectures in Jewish Studies)
by David G. Roskies
Hardcover, 232 Pages, Published 1999 by Indiana University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-253-33505-0, ISBN: 0-253-33505-1






Yiddishlands(second edition)
A Memoir, Second Edition (Title Not in Series)
by David G. Roskies
Paperback, 280 Pages, Published 2023 by Wayne State University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8143-5072-0, ISBN: 0-8143-5072-0






Arguing the Modern Jewish Canon
Essays on Literature and Culture in Honor of Ruth R. Wisse (Harvard Center for Jewish Studies (Hardcover))
by Justin Daniel Cammy, Dara Horn, Alyssa Quint, Rachel Rubinstein, David Aberbach, Edward Alexander, Marion Aptroot, Marc Caplan, Jeremy Dauber, Ken Frieden, Leah Garrett, Janet Hadda, Hillel Halkin, Philip Hollander, Michael Kimmage, Susanne Klingenstein, Mikhail Krutikov, Ezra Mendelsohn, Alan Mintz, Dan Miron, Goldie Morgentaler, Avraham Novershtern, Cynthia Ozick, Yavron Peleg, Jonathan Rosen, David Roskies, Sasha Senderovich, Naomi Sokoloff, Ilan Stavans, Miriam Udel-Lambert, Emily Miller Budick, Monika Adamczyk-Garbowska, Beatrice Lang Caplan, Hana Wirth-Nesher, Jed Wyrick, Ruth R. Wisse
Hardcover, 721 Pages, Published 2009 by Harvard University Center For Jewish Studies
ISBN-13: 978-0-674-02585-1, ISBN: 0-674-02585-7

" Over the past four decades Ruth R. Wisse has been a leading scholar of Yiddish and Jewish literary studies in North America, and one of our most fearless public intellectuals on issues relating to Jewish society, culture, and politics. In this celebratory volume, edited by four of her former students, Wisse's colleagues take as a starting point her award-winning book The Modern Jewish Canon (2000) and explore an array of topics that ..."






Voices from the Warsaw Ghetto
by David G. Roskies
276 Pages, Published 2019 by Yale University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-300-24535-6, ISBN: 0-300-24535-1

"The powerful writings and art of Jews living in the Warsaw Ghetto Hidden in metal containers and buried underground during World War II, these works from the Warsaw Ghetto record the Holocaust from the perspective of its first interpreters, ..."






The Tauber Institute Series for the Study of European Jewry Ser.
Holocaust Literature : A History and Guide
by David G. Roskies, Naomi Diamant
Digital, 368 Pages, Published 2012 by Brandeis University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-61168-359-2, ISBN: 1-61168-359-9

"Selections in O the Chimneys: Selected Poems, Including the Verse Play, Eli. ... First published as In den Wohnungen des Todes. ... To read Holocaust literature in chronological order is to recover the surprise of first encounter. ... Via her love affair with Hasidism, which acculturated German Jews of her generation saw as an expression of the exotic East, Sachs arrived at a mystical ... Where poetry no longer serves liturgical en ..."






Shtetl Book(Updated)
by Diane K. Roskies , David G. Roskies , J. David Bleich
Paperback, 327 Pages, Published 1990 by Ktav Pub Inc
ISBN-13: 978-0-87068-455-5, ISBN: 0-87068-455-8






Bearing the Unbearable
Yiddish and Polish Poetry in the Ghettos and Concentration Camps (Suny Series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture) (Suny Series, Modern Jewish Literature & Culture)
by Frieda W. Aaron , David G. Roskies
Paperback, 254 Pages, Published 1990 by State University Of New York Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-7914-5856-3, ISBN: 0-7914-5856-3






A Bridge of Longing
The Lost Art of Yiddish Storytelling
by David G. Roskies
Hardcover, 419 Pages, Published 1998 by Harvard University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-674-08139-0, ISBN: 0-674-08139-0






Raising Secular Jews
Yiddish Schools and Their Periodicals for American Children, 1917&Ndash; 1950 (Brandeis Series in American Jewish History, Culture, and Life)
by Naomi Prawer Kadar , David G. Roskies
Hardcover, 312 Pages, Published 2016 by Brandeis
ISBN-13: 978-1-61168-986-0, ISBN: 1-61168-986-4



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