Description

David G. Roskies (born 1948 in Montreal to a family of immigrants from Vilna) is a renowned American scholar, specialist in the history of Jewish culture, professor at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York, and author of renowned works on Eastern European Jewish culture.
His book, “Bridge of Desire,” explores the formation and development of the narrative genre in Yiddish-language Jewish literature from the 18th to the 20th centuries and the state of Yiddish culture today. The mystical revelations of Nachman of Breslov, the bitter humor of Sholem Aleichem and Yitzhak Leibush Peretz, the poetry of Itzik Manger, and the virtuoso prose of Bashevis Singer find in Roskies not only a conscientious interpreter but also an inspired historian of an entire layer of Jewish culture.

Format: Hardcover. 20.5 × 12 × 3 cm. Pages: 684. Weight: 579 g
Language of the text: Russian
ISBN: 978-5-7516-0927-6
Publisher: Knizhniki
Published: 2010
Age category: 16+