Research Catalog

Title

Lament for Julia : and other stories / Susan Taubes ; introduction by Francesca Wade.

Author

Taubes, Susan

Publication

New York, NY : New York Review of Books, [2023]

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Details

Additional Authors

Wade, Francesca

Description

xii, 226 pages; 21 cm.

Summary

"Susan Taubes (1928-1969), born Judit Zsuzsanna Feldmann in Budapest, was the daughter of a psychoanalyst and the granddaughter of a rabbi. She and her father emigrated to the United States in 1939, settling in Rochester, New York. She attended Bryn Mawr as an undergraduate, and in 1949 married the rabbinically trained scholar Jacob Taubes. Taubes studied philosophy and religion in Jerusalem, at the Sorbonne, and at Radcliffe, where she wrote her dissertation on Simone Weil. She and her husband had a son and a daughter, in 1953 and 1957, and in 1960 she began teaching at Columbia University, where she was curator of the Bush Collection of Religion and Culture. During the 1960s, Taubes was a member of the experimental Open Theater ensemble; edited volumes of Native American and African folktales; published a dozen short stories; and wrote two novels, Divorcing and the still-unpublished Lament for Julia. Her suicide came shortly after the publication of Divorcing, in November 1969. Two collections of Taubes's extensive correspondence with Jacob while they lived apart in the early 1950s were published in Germany in 2014: the letters appear in their original English with German annotation"--

Series Statement

New York Review Books classics

Uniform Title

New York Review Books classics.

Subject

• Young women > Fiction
• Spirits > Fiction
• Young women
• Spirits

Genre/Form

• Novels.
• Fiction.

Contents

Lament for Julia -- The patient -- The sharks -- A fatal disease -- Dr. Rombach's daughter -- Medea -- Easter visit -- The gold chain -- Swan -- The last dance.

Call Number

JFD 24-254

ISBN

• 9781681376943
• 1681376946
• 9781681376950 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

• 2022022472
• 40031821452

OCLC

1319691897

Author

Taubes, Susan, author.

Title

Lament for Julia : and other stories / Susan Taubes ; introduction by Francesca Wade.

Publisher

New York, NY : New York Review of Books, [2023]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

New York Review Books classics

New York Review Books classics.

Added Author

Wade, Francesca, writer of introduction.

Other Form:

Online version: Taubes, Susan, 1928- Lament for julia New York City : New York Review Books Classics, 2023 9781681376950 (DLC) 2022022473

Other Standard Identifier

40031821452

Research Call Number

JFD 24-254