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Lädt ... Selected storiesvon Isaac Leib Peretz
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. I would be extremely curious to know what someone else—someone to whom these stories are completely foreign--would think. They are all about life among poor Russian Jews in the 19th century by one of the most famous of all Yiddish writers. I am Jewish (my grandparents all emigrated from Russia in the 19th century) and so these stories are particularly meaningful and also need no “translation.” I know in intimate detail almost everything he writes about. But I can’t help wonder whether they would be as evocative and as powerful to someone having no shared background. Some of the stories weren’t so good, but most were quite strong and a few even very moving. ( ) Some quotes: on "If Not Higher" from the Introduction: "The inner anecdote about the rabbi Peretz took from a familiar Hasidic story, told in many variations, about Rabbi Moses Leib of Sasov; but the encasing figure of the Litvak is Peretz' addition. . . . The Litvak sees the saintliness of the Hasidic rabbi as a this-worldly saintliness; he comes to adore the rabbi as a moral hero rather than as an agent of God. Peretz does not actually link himself to the world of the Hasidic rabbi, he merely looks into it---with wonder and admiration , but still from a distance." [p. 15] There is a version of the Rabbi Moses Leib story in Buber's 2-volume book of Hasidic stories. Eric Kimmel, in his picture book Even Higher, makes a similar point about the Litvak's appreciation of the rabbi. in "Between Two Peaks," a Hasidic rebbe explains to his former, mitnagdic rabbi, ". . . your Torah, reacher, is a matter of rules. It is without compassion. No spark of charity! That is why there is no joy within it. Once cannot breathe deeply Iron laws, regulations of copper. A very lofty Torah; but it's for the scholar, the exceptional person." [p. 93] Zeige 2 von 2 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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