"The First Day" and Other Stories - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook "The First Day" and Other Stories write by Dvora Baron. This book was released on 2001-03-31. "The First Day" and Other Stories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Dvora Baron (1887-1956), the first modern Hebrew woman writer, was born in a small Lithuanian town in 1887. Her father, a rabbi, gave his daughter a thorough education, an extraordinary act at the time. Baron immigrated to Palestine in 1910, married a prominent Zionist activist, but defied the implicit ideological demands of the Zionist literary scene by continuing to write of the shtetl life she had left behind. The eighteen stories in this superb collection offer an intimate re-creation of Jewish Eastern Europe from a perspective seldom represented in Hebrew and Yiddish literature of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Baron brings vividly to life the shtetl experiences of women and other disenfranchised members of the Jewish community. Her stories relate the feelings of a newborn girl, a "Jewish" dog, an impoverished bookkeeper, a young widow who must hire herself out as a wet-nurse, and others who face emotional and physical hardships. Baron's fluid writing style pushes the flexibility of Hebrew and Yiddish syntax to its limits, while her profound knowledge of both biblical and rabbinical literature lends rich subtleties to her stories. A companion to Conversations with Dvora: An Experimental Biography of the First Modern Hebrew Woman Writer, by Amia Lieblich (California, 1997), this collection is drawn from Baron's earlier as well as later works.
"The First Day" and Other Stories
"The First Day" and Other Stories - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook "The First Day" and Other Stories write by Devorah Baron. This book was released on 2001. "The First Day" and Other Stories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Who knew? That a Jewish village in Eastern Europe was observed by a skeptical, feminist eye, transformed into agile, delicate, earthy stories, written in Hebrew, a language never learned by most women? That a world of men and of women, deserted, divorced, unloved--later decimated by the Nazis--could spring to life again, in stunning translations that expose the stories' biblical moves and modernist countermoves? Now we know: Hebrew fiction and English fiction just gained an astonishing foremother. Sit, take a bite, read."--Mary Felstiner, Professor of History at San Francisco State University, author of To Paint Her Life: Charlotte Salomon in the Nazi Era "We know the voice of the shtetl through Shomlom Aleichem, I. B. Singer, and others; now we have a woman's perspective in the work of Dvora Baron. This mysterious, eccentric author is wonderfully translated for the first time in English, just as Israelis are beginning to treasure her. It is a triumph for literature, for women, and for readers that she is now available to us."--E. M. Broner, author of A Weave of Women, The Telling, and Bringing Home the Light
Half a Day and Other Stories
Half a Day and Other Stories - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Half a Day and Other Stories write by . This book was released on . Half a Day and Other Stories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Audistic and Other Stories
The Audistic and Other Stories - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Audistic and Other Stories write by Nelson Bryksa. This book was released on 2009-11-23. The Audistic and Other Stories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An eleven-year-old deaf girl stands in the cold, clutching the hand of the only adult she feels she can trust. A man rolls under a giant creature awaiting his fate in the black waters of the Pacific. A father tries to be inconspicuous in a line of emigrants disembarking a ship in a strange country. A young woman struggles helplessly through the winter night onto a busy highway and collapses unseen by an oncoming transport driver. A man perches in the dark on the outside ledge of a thirteen-story office building to find refuge from his troubled life. An airline passenger contemplates a mission that will bring him closure. These are some of the scenes in Nelson Bryksa's The Audistic and Other Stories. In this nine-course setting of fiction, creative non-fiction and actual events, he tells stories of prejudice, courage, and adventure.
The Heronmaster and other stories
The Heronmaster and other stories - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Heronmaster and other stories write by Alex McGilvery. This book was released on 2015-11-19. The Heronmaster and other stories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Heronmaster is the second collection of Alex McGilvery's stories. They include the title story, which is the tale of Leaper who grows from a tadpole to become a legend. Murder in the Woods is a noir style mystery with animals rather than people. Nick, a young wolf, is forced to seek out the answer to Bob the moose's disappearance. Sammy is a the story of a young man on a cruise with his new car, the elderly man he takes with him and a red balloon. Madison's Meteor tells the story of Frank Madison, a farmer outside of the town of Madison which has fallen on hard times with the closing of the plant - the main employer for the town. Frank finds a meteor one night and changes start in both him and the town.
