LIBROS DEL AUTOR: jacob dinezon

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  • Falik and His House
    Jacob Dinezon / Mindy Liberman
    Jacob Dinezon’s novella Falik and His House, originally published in Yiddish in 1904 and translated into English for the first time by Mindy Liberman, tells the story of an elderly tailor who has fallen on hard times. His house, which he talks to like a brother, was once young and sturdy. Now in old age, it leans precariously, and the roof is leaking so badly it threatens to dr...
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    10,91 €

  • The Dark Young Man
    Jacob Dinezon / Tina Lunson
    Jacob Dinezon’s historical Jewish romance is set in the Russian Empire in the 1840s and weaves the bittersweet tale of Yosef, a poor but brilliant yeshiva student, who falls in love with Roza, the beautiful and charming daughter of a rich merchant. But the couple's bright horizon is clouded by the ruthless actions of Roza's brother-in-law, the Dark Young Man, who plots ...
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    21,78 €

  • Hershele
    Jacob Dinezon / Jane Peppler
    When Hershele, a poor but brilliant yeshiva student, is invited for a weekly charity meal by a rich widow, he comes face-to-face with Mirele, the widow's pretty, bright, and strong-willed daughter. As the two innocently come to know each other, they fall in love. Are they 'bashert'-soul mates destined to be together? Or will rigid class differences, shtetl politics, and a ruthl...
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    16,21 €

  • Yosele
    Jacob Dinezon / Jane Peppler
    YOSELE, Jacob Dinezon's short novel published in 1899, exposed in stark detail the outmoded and cruel teaching methods prevalent in the traditional cheders (Jewish elementary schools) of the late 1800s. Writing in Yiddish to reach the broadest Jewish audience, Dinezon described with all the pathos of Charles Dickens, the sad, poverty-stricken life of a bright and gentle school ...
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    15,32 €

  • Memories and Scenes
    Jacob Dinezon / Tina Lunson
    Memories and Scenes: Shtetl, Childhood, Writers is the first English translation of eleven autobiographical short stories by the 19th century Eastern European Yiddish writer, Jacob Dinezon (1852-1919). A beloved and successful Jewish novelist who championed Yiddish as a literary language, Dinezon befriended and mentored almost every major literary figure of his day, including t...
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    20,22 €