Overview
Available in English translation for the first time, Dineh, posthumously published, is an autobiographical Yiddish-language novel by Ida Maze (1893--1962). Dineh is a pastorale laced with beauty and sorrow and a bildungsroman told from the point of view of a young girl. Living in what is now Belarus, Maze's eponymous heroine is fueled by her hunger for learning, connection to family and community, and love of the natural world.
Full Product Details
Author: Ida Maze ,
Yermiyahu Ahron Taub
Publisher: White Goat Press
Imprint: White Goat Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.80cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.644kg
ISBN: 9798985206906
Pages: 290
Publication Date: 01 April 2022
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Temporarily unavailable
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Reviews
"Maze's posthumous novel presents the beauty, poverty, and tragedy of Belarus during the First Russian Revolution as seen through the eyes of a young Jewish girl...A tragic, lovely, and important novel in translation."""" - Kirkus Reviews """" ...Yermiyahu Ahron Taub brings this world to life again in English with great poetic sensitivity and illuminates Maze's contributions to Yiddish literature in a fascinating afterword. This novel should take a prominent place in the expanding canon of Yiddish women writers brought out of entirely undeserved obscurity."""" - Ross Benjamin, translator of Kafka's Diary"
Maze's posthumous novel presents the beauty, poverty, and tragedy of Belarus during the First Russian Revolution as seen through the eyes of a young Jewish girl...A tragic, lovely, and important novel in translation. - Kirkus Reviews ...Yermiyahu Ahron Taub brings this world to life again in English with great poetic sensitivity and illuminates Maze's contributions to Yiddish literature in a fascinating afterword. This novel should take a prominent place in the expanding canon of Yiddish women writers brought out of entirely undeserved obscurity. - Ross Benjamin, translator of Kafka's Diary
Author Information
Born Hayeh Zukofsky in 1893 in the village of Ugli, White Russia (now Belarus), Ida Maze was an important figure in the world of Yiddish letters. After emigrating from White Russia, she lived briefly in New York City and then settled in Montreal. Maze' s generosity was the stuff of legend. She helped refugee writers navigate the Canadian immigration system, edited the books of other poets, and advocated for writers in many ways. The doors of her home were always open, and many Yiddish writers gathered there. Ida Maze died in Montreal in 1962.
