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The Forgotten of the Shtetl

Collection : Terre humaine
Release date : 05/12/2013

In the crucible of ideas that revolutionised Europe. Yitskhok Laybush Peretz's exploration of rural Jewish communities of Eastern Europe, the shtetlech, never saw the light of day in his native land. The Czar himself forbade its publication. One of the greatest writers of the Yiddish language, Peretz's exposé was precise,...

In the crucible of ideas that revolutionised Europe. Yitskhok Laybush Peretz's exploration of rural Jewish communities of Eastern Europe, the shtetlech, never saw the light of day in his native land. The Czar himself forbade its publication. One of the greatest writers of the Yiddish language, Peretz's exposé was precise, detailed, and full of subtlety. And it revealed the shtetl as a place of prodigious intellectual ferment, clearly a fact best ignored in the antisemitic Eastern Europe of his gentile contemporaries. In this remarkable translation, Peretz allows us to discover the world of the shtetl, so little known before it disappeared into the murderous flames of the Third Reich, a world that was the cradle of great currents of thought--anthropology and psychoanalysis among others--that marked the history of the 20th century. Quite apart from its informative worth, this text is an homage to that vanished society of the shtetl that gave us so much, and to Yiddish, that inimitably rich language, today preciously conserved, that is an integral aspect of the perfume of that world that has disappeared. Nathan Weinstock, a specialist of Jewish society in Eastern Europe, offers a lively, rigorous and intelligently annotated translation of this Tableau d'un voyage en Province, a unique and rich work.

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EAN : 9782259223348
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DRM : Watermark (Tatouage numérique)
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