Research Catalog

Title

Yiddishlands : a memoir / David G. Roskies.

Author

Roskies, David G., 1948-

Publication

Detroit : Wayne State University Press, 2023.

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Details

Description

xvi, 252 pages : illustrations, genealogical table; 23 cm

Subject

• Roskies, David G., 1948-
• Roskies, Masha, 1906-1999
• Jews > Québec (Province) > Montréal > Biography
• Yiddishists > United States > Biography
• Jewish scholars > United States > Biography
• Mothers and sons
• Juifs > Québec (Province) > Montréal > Biographies
• Yiddishistes > États-Unis > Biographies
• Savants juifs > États-Unis > Biographies
• Mères et fils
• Montréal (Québec) > Ethnic relations

Genre/Form

• autobiographies (literary works)
• Autobiographies.
• Biographies.

Note

• The Rebbe Elimeylekh -- The Dybbuk -- Cafe Rudnitsky -- Bread -- Prayer for the Tsar -- Scribal errors -- Malvina's roses -- The watercarrier -- Yeast -- Beloved fatherland -- The black canopy -- May day -- The wooden box -- The last Seder night -- Lisbon -- Playing solitaire -- The soirée -- Cape Cod -- Double feature -- Male bonding -- Études -- Sutzkever's address -- Leybl's ark -- Between two mountains -- Kotsk -- The sale of Joseph -- The two Bulvanes -- Yom Kippur -- New York Jew -- Partisans' hymn -- The menorah -- Dream house.

Contents

I. Table talk: The Rebbe Elimeylekh -- The Dybbuk -- Cafe Rudnitsky -- Bread -- Prayer for the Tsar -- Scribal errors -- Malvina's roses -- The watercarrier -- Yeast -- Beloved fatherland -- The black canopy -- May day -- The wooden box -- The last Seder night -- Lisbon -- II. Talking back: Playing solitaire -- The soirée -- Cape Cod -- Double feature -- Male bonding -- Études -- III. Jewspeak: Sutzkever's address -- Leybl's ark -- Between two mountains -- Kotsk -- The sale of Joseph -- The two Bulvanes -- Yom Kippur -- New York Jew -- Partisans' hymn -- The menorah -- Dream house -- A piece of cake -- Dream house -- Footloose in Vilna, 1939 -- Genealogy -- Masha Roskies sings.

ISBN

• 9780814350720
• 0814350720
• 0814350739
• 9780814350737
• 9780814350737 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2023933154

OCLC

• on1372393161
• SCSB-14696887

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library