Word: yiddishe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Image and Other Stories offers 22 reassuring proofs of the laureate's continuing vitality. "The instinct to create remains as long as one breathes," says an obscure Yiddish poet in one of these tales, and he obviously speaks for his author as well as for all the compulsive monologists who continue to pop up in and then dominate Singer's short stories. "Now listen," commands Aunt Yentl, who is overheard telling three different anecdotes, and only the dull or the terminally uninterested could possibly disobey...
...help trains the lad to become a writer: "I was interested in people's talk -- their expressions, their excuses for wrong deeds, and how they twisted things to suit themselves." And he or someone very like him appears in other Warsaw stories as an apprentice author, hanging around the Yiddish Writers' Club, looking for work and the experience of life...
...mirrored the flow of the immigrants themselves. By the early 1900s, when the boatloads of newcomers reached their peak, some 1,300 foreign- language newspapers and magazines were being published in the U.S. New York City alone boasted a cacophony of 32 dailies, including ten in German, five in Yiddish, two in Bohemian and one each in Croatian, Slovakian and Slovenian...
Like most of the other immigrant moguls, Mayer achieved the American dream without becoming a homogenized American. By parading their unregenerate Yiddish accents and their careful malapropisms, the studio bosses were implying that their success came from street smarts acquired on the Lower East Side and further back, in the shtetls of Eastern Europe; it took a ragman to become a Hollywood rajah. "They had grown up," wrote Film Historian Carlos Clarens, "in a trade where samples could be smelled, fingered and felt; they recognized craft when they saw it, and they respected it; rather than hoodwink the customer, they...
...offers the convenience of all three novels in one volume and something else besides. Roth has added a novella-length epilogue to Nathan's saga called The Prague Orgy. For reasons he does not fully understand, a ( rejuvenated Zuckerman finds himself in Czechoslovakia, trying to obtain a manuscript of Yiddish stories, written by someone both unknown and deceased, to take back with him to the U.S. The writers and artists he meets in Prague have all been silenced and repressed by the government. Sex is their outlet and anodyne. Zuckerman wants to discuss literature; his hosts want him to join...