Jewish Life
Subtitle: Tales from Nineteenth-Century Europe (Studies in Austrian Literature, Culture, and Thought Translation Series)
Contributors: Virginia L. Lewis (Translator)
Publisher: Ariadne Pr
Published: August 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9781572411142
Subjects: Judaism; Judaism - General; Religion; 1835-1895; Europe; Fiction; Jewish fiction; Jews; Ritter von,; Sacher-Masoch, Leopold,; Translations into English; Medical
Description: "This work, originally published in Mannheim in 1891, is a collection of twenty-six stories illustrating various aspects of Jewish life and culture in Europe before the twentieth century. Each story takes place in a different country, ranging from England to Turkey, and develops an isolated topic or theme from Jewish life, such as its holidays, cabalism, the Chasidic movement, fanaticism, secularism etc., in a sometimes humorous, sometimes dramatic, and often sentimental fashion.

While the endings are always happy, the level of historic realism in the stories is high. Jewish Life offers a richly detailed portrait of jewish customs and culture prior to the deplorable attempt to destroy them during the Holocaust."--BOOK JACKET.