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A storyteller's worlds : the education of Shlomo Noble in Europe and America

Title: A storyteller's worlds : the education of Shlomo Noble in Europe and America / [interviews conducted and commented on by] Jonathan Boyarin ; foreword by Sander L. Gilman.
Author: Noble, Shlomo, 1905-
Publication: New York : Holmes & Meier, 1994.

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Additional Authors

Boyarin, Jonathan.

Description

xv, 231 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

Shlomo Noble was born in Galicia before World War I and brought up in a traditional East European Jewish community until he came to America at the age of fifteen. Witness and memoirist, storyteller and scholar, he was an explorer of a vanished world who charts the path between that world and our own.
In this engaging oral history, Jonathan Boyarin, a cultural anthropologist and ethnographer, records and puts in context Noble's instructive and amusing stories of his Jewish upbringing and education in Europe and America.
Noble is an extraordinary storyteller - the kind who connects us in a unique and vivid way to worlds we might otherwise have lost: the East European Jewish shtetl attempting to hold on to old ways in the face of the dislocations of World War I; the new social movements, opportunities, and conflicts arising in interwar Poland; small-town Jewish life in America as experienced by an immigrant boy during the 1920s; the life of an Orthodox Jewish yeshiva student on the immigrant Lower East Side of New York, and the texture of thought, language, and feeling ingrained in traditional Jewish learning; American universities in the years before World War II; and Los Angeles when the Brown Derby was the fashionable place to be seen.

Series Statement

New perspectives

Uniform Title

New perspectives (Holmes & Meier)

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ISBN

0841913439

LCCN

94005770

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Columbia University Libraries