The Frozen Rabbi
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The Frozen Rabbi
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Author : Steve Stern
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2011-06-14
The Frozen Rabbi written by Steve Stern and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-14 with Fiction categories.
Award-winning novelist Steve Stern’s exhilarating epic recounts the story of how a nineteenth-century rabbi from a small Polish town ends up in a basement freezer in a suburban Memphis home at the end of the twentieth century. What happens when an impressionable teenage boy inadvertently thaws out the ancient man and brings him back to life is nothing short of miraculous.
The Book Of Mischief
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Author : Steve Stern
language : en
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Release Date : 2012-09-04
The Book Of Mischief written by Steve Stern and has been published by Graywolf Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-04 with Fiction categories.
"In the 25 years since [Stern] published his first book, younger Jewish writers have run with a similar shtick . . . But Stern was there first." —The Toronto Globe and Mail The Book of Mischief triumphantly showcases twenty-five years of outstanding work by one of our true masters of the short story. Steve Stern's stories take us from the unlikely old Jewish quarter of the Pinch in Memphis to a turn-of-thecentury immigrant community in New York; from the market towns of Eastern Europe to a down-at-the-heels Catskills resort. Along the way we meet a motley assortment of characters: Mendy Dreyfus, whose bungee jump goes uncannily awry; Elijah the prophet turned voyeur; and the misfit Zelik Rifkin, who discovers the tree of dreams. Perhaps it's no surprise that Kafka's cockroach also makes an appearance in these pages, animated as they are by instances of bewildering transformation. The earthbound take flight, the meek turn incendiary, the powerless find unwonted fame. Weaving his particular brand of mischief from the wondrous and the macabre, Stern transforms us all through the power of his brilliant imagination.
A Rabbi S Northern Adventure
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Author : Yisrael Haber
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
A Rabbi S Northern Adventure written by Yisrael Haber and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Rabbi Haber recounts his extraordinary experiences, from his service in the USA as Air Force Chaplain stationed in Alaska, through his current position as Chabad Rabbi on the Golan Heights. With humor and good wit, Haber relates the challenges of keeping Yiddishkeit alive in the frozen wilderness, and of keeping the morale high in the Golan Heights, making for an exceptional, inspirational story for all.
The Routledge Handbook Of Contemporary Jewish Cultures
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Author : Nadia Valman
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-07-14
The Routledge Handbook Of Contemporary Jewish Cultures written by Nadia Valman and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-14 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Routledge Handbook to Contemporary Jewish Cultures explores the diversity of Jewish cultures and ways of investigating them, presenting the different methodologies, arguments and challenges within the discipline. Divided into themed sections, this book considers in turn: How the individual terms "Jewish" and "culture" are defined, looking at perspectives from Anthropology, Music, Literary Studies, Sociology, Religious Studies, History, Art History, and Film, Television, and New Media Studies. How Jewish cultures are theorized, looking at key themes regarding power, textuality, religion/secularity, memory, bodies, space and place, and networks. Case studies in contemporary Jewish cultures. With essays by leading scholars in Jewish culture, this book offers a clear overview of the field and offers exciting new directions for the future.
The Pinch
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Author : Steve Stern
language : en
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Release Date : 2015-06-02
The Pinch written by Steve Stern and has been published by Graywolf Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-02 with Fiction categories.
A dazzling, spellbinding novel set in a mythical Jewish community by the acclaimed author of the New York Times Notable Book The Book of Mischief It's the late 1960s. The Pinch, once a thriving Jewish community centered on North Main Street in Memphis, has been reduced to a single tenant. Lenny Sklarew awaits the draft by peddling drugs and shelving books—until he learns he is a character in a book about the rise and fall of this very Pinch. Muni Pinsker, who authored the book in an enchanted day containing years, arrived in the neighborhood at its height and was smitten by an alluring tightrope walker. Muni's own story is dovetailed by that of his uncle Pinchas Pin, whose epic journey to North Main Street forms the book's spine. Steve Stern interweaves these tales with an ingenious structure that merges past with present, and his wildly inventive fabulism surpasses everything he's done before. Together, these intersecting stories transform the real-world experience of Lenny, whose fate determines the future of the Pinch, in this brilliant, unforgettable novel.
Der Gefrorene Rabbi
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Author : Steve Stern
language : de
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
Der Gefrorene Rabbi written by Steve Stern and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with categories.
"Eine scharfsinnige Gesellschaftssatire, eine skurrile Zeitreise und ein spannender Familienroman Beim Durchwühlen der Gefriertruhe stösst der gelangweilte Teenager Bernie Karp zwischen Tiefkühlpizzas und Koteletts zufällig auf einen Eisblock, in dem ein bärtiger alter Mann eingefroren ist. Ein Rabbi, wie seine ebenso gelangweilten Eltern ihm erklären, der innerhalb der Familie als eine Art Talisman über Generationen weitergereicht wurde. Bei einem Stromausfall geschieht das Unglaubliche: Der Rabbi taut auf und erwacht zu neuem Leben. Der aus der Zeit gefallene heilige Mann entwickelt ungeahnte Energien und entdeckt lukrative Entfaltungsmöglichkeiten in der modernen Welt. Während der Rabbi in einem Einkaufszentrum das " "Haus der Erleuchtung" " gründet und gestressten Managern und frustrierten Hausfrauen das Seelenheil verkauft, glaubt Bernie, endlich einen Sinn in seinem Leben gefunden zu haben. Er findet nach und nach heraus, wie der gefrorene Geistliche von einem polnischen Schtetl des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts in eine Gefriertruhe im Memphis der Gegenwart geraten ist, und will das Familienerbe bewahren. Doch der Rabbi macht nichts als Ärger. Der vielfach preisgekrönte Autor gilt als legitimer Nachfolger von Isaac Bashevis Singer. "
American Rabbis Second Edition
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Author : David J. Zucker
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2019-06-21
American Rabbis Second Edition written by David J. Zucker and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-21 with Religion categories.
This book is a broad-brush approach describing the realities of life in the American rabbinate. Factual portrayals are supplemented by examples drawn from fiction--primarily novels and short stories. Chapters include: ♣Rabbinic Training ♣Congregational Rabbis and Their Communities ♣Congregants' Views of Their Rabbis ♣Women Rabbis [also including examples from TV and Cinema] ♣Assimilation, Intermarriage, Patrilineality, and Human Sexuality ♣God, Israel, and Tradition This book draws upon sociological data, including the recent Pew Research Center survey on Jewish life in America, and presents a contemporary view of rabbis and their communities. The realities of the American rabbinate are then compared/contrasted with the ways fiction writers present their understanding of rabbinic life. The book explores illustrations from two hundred novels, short stories, and TV/cinema; representing well over 135 authors. From the first real-life women rabbis in the early 1970s to today's statistics of close to 1,600 women rabbis worldwide, major changes have taken place. Women rabbis are transforming the face of Judaism. For example, this newly revised second edition of American Rabbis: Facts and Fiction reflects a fivefold increase in terms of examples of fictional women rabbis, from when the book was first published in 1998. There is new and expanded material on some of the challenges in the twenty-first century, women rabbis, human sexuality/LGBTQ matters, trans/post/non-denominational seminaries, and community-based rabbis.
When We Were Bad
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Author : Charlotte Mendelson
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2009-09-30
When We Were Bad written by Charlotte Mendelson and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09-30 with Fiction categories.
When We Were Bad is a spellbinding, witty and poignant portrayal of a family in crisi, in love, and in denial. 'As intelligent as it is funny. A beautifully observed literary comedy as well as a painfully accurate description of one big old family mess. A joy' – Observer In North London, Claudia Rubin is in her heyday. Wife, mother, rabbi – and sometimes moral voice of the nation – everyone wants to be with her at her son Leo's glorious wedding. That is, until Leo jilts his bride, and the gleaming bubble surrounding the Rubins threatens to burst. Frances – Claudia's calm, mature, married daughter – tries to hold the nucleus of the family together, but the stress forces her to re-examine her own life, leading her to make a decision as shocking as Leo's choice to bolt. And Claudia's husband, Norman, has an uncharacteristic secret. And, whether he likes it or not, he is powerless to stop it coming out . . . 'A comedy with the warmest of hearts and the most deliciously subversive of agendas' - Marie Claire 'Fast-paced and engaging. Brilliant, touching and true' - Naomi Alderman, bestselling author of The Power
Sounds Of A New Generation
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Author : Deborah Wallrabenstein
language : en
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Release Date : 2017-10-31
Sounds Of A New Generation written by Deborah Wallrabenstein and has been published by transcript Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-31 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book offers insight into the approaches of a new generation of Jewish-American writers. Whether they reimagine their ancestors' "shtetl life" or invent their own kind of Jewishness, they have a common curiosity in what makes them Jewish. Is it because most of them are third-generation Americans who don't worry about assimilation as their parents' generation did? If so, how does the writing of recent Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union fit into the picture? Unlike Irving Howe predicted in 1977, Jewish-American literature did not fade after immigration. It always finds new paths, drawing from the vast scope of Jewish life in America.
Le Rabbin Congel
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Author : Steve Stern
language : fr
Publisher: Autrement
Release Date : 2022-05-04T00:00:00+02:00
Le Rabbin Congel written by Steve Stern and has been published by Autrement this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-04T00:00:00+02:00 with Fiction categories.
Pologne, 1889. En plein hiver, le grand rabbin ben Zephyr, en pleine méditation, tombe dans une mare et y meurt congelé. Un siècle plus tard, à Memphis, Tennessee, l’adolescent Bernie Karp retrouve le sage dans le congélateur de ses parents. Suite à une coupure de courant, le vieil homme dégèle et se réveille... Comment le rabbin est-il arrivé dans le congélateur d’une famille américaine moyenne ? Alternant entre passé et présent, Steve Stern raconte tour à tour l’épopée du religieux dans son cercueil de glace souvent à deux doigts de la décongélation et le retour de Bernie Karp à un judaïsme que sa famille a abandonné. Le rabbin, lui, une fois réveillé, ne tardera pas à découvrir les avantages de combiner les vertus de la spiritualité et du capitalisme le plus décomplexé. Un autre genre de conversion. Le Rabbin congelé est à la fois une magnifique satire de l’Amérique, un roman désopilant et une savoureuse fresque yiddish.