First Day and Other Stories

Name: First Day and Other Stories
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ISBN: 9780520085381

ISBN-10: 0520085388

ISBN-13: 9780520085381

Edition: 2003

Authors: Dvora Baron, Naomi Seidman, Chana Kronfeld

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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…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 4/30/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 261
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Translator's Acknowledgments


Introduction


The Later Stories


In the Beginning


The First Day


Fradl


Bill of Divorcement


Family


Deserted Wife


Shifra


Grandchildren


Ziva


The Early Stories


Sister


Burying the Books


Kaddish


Bubbe Henya


An Only Daughter


Fedka


Aggravation


The End of Sender Ziv


Liska


Glossary