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Ancestral tales : reading the Buczacz stories of S.Y. Agnon / Alan Mintz.
Author
Mintz, Alan L.
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Language
English
Published/Created
Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2017]
Description
ix, 425 pages : illustration ; 24 cm.
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PJ5053.A4 C536 2017
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Jews in literature
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Buchach (Ukraine)
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In literature
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Agnon, Shmuel Yosef 1887-1970
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City in its fullness
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Series
Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture
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Written in pieces over the last fifteen years of his life and published posthumously, S.Y. Agnon's A City in Its Fullness is an ambitious, historically rich sequence of stories memorializing Buczacz, the city of his birth. This town in present-day Ukraine was once home to a vibrant Jewish population that was destroyed twice over - in the First World War and again in the Holocaust. Agnon's epic story cycle, however, focuses not on the particulars of destruction, but instead reimagines the daily lives of Buczacz's Jewish citizens, vividly preserving the vanished world of early modern Jewry. Its fusion of fiction and history in unique within modern Jewish literature. Ancestral Tales show how this collection marks a critical juncture within the Agnon canon. Through close readings of the stories against a shifting historical backdrop, Alan Mintz presents a multilayered history of the town, along with insight into Agnon's fictional transformations. Mintz relates these narrative strategies to catastrophe literature from earlier periods of Jewish history, showing how Agnon's Buczacz is a literary achivement at once innovative in its form of remembrance and deeply rooted in Jewish tradition. -- from back cover.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-415) and index.
Contents
Introduction : "I am building a city"
A Baedecker to Buczacz
Inventing a narrator
Worship and danger : a cantorial tryptych
Rabbis and scholars
Jews and Poles
Austrian mandates
Disappeared
Moments of redemption.
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ISBN
9781503601161 ((hardcover ; : alkaline paper))
1503601161 ((hardcover ; : alkaline paper))
LCCN
2016049624
OCLC
960707606
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40027281210
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