Overview
Bergelson’s 1920 novella describes the complex Jewish life of Russia and Ukraine through the turbulent period leading up to the October Revolution of 1917.
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Author: Joseph Sherman ,
Joseph Sherman ,
Joseph Sherman
Publisher: Modern Language Association of America
Imprint: Modern Language Association of America
Dimensions:
Width: 14.20cm
, Height: 1.60cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.348kg
ISBN: 9780873527873
ISBN 10: 0873527879
Pages: 279
Publication Date: 01 January 1999
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Language: Yiddish
Reviews
Dovid Bergelson's Opgang is one of the most striking products of a modernist literature seemingly lost in recent history. Translations of forward-looking Yiddish modernists like Sholem Asch and I. J. Singer once dominated the best-seller lists throughout the world. Joseph Sherman's readable, accessible translation of Bergelson's novel adds one more text to that canon and shows how valuable this canon is for any study of modern literature and culture, especially of the Jews of Europe. --Sander L. Gilman, University of Illinois, Chicago
Dovid Bergelson's Opgang is one of the most striking products of a modernist literature seemingly lost in recent history. Translations of forward-looking Yiddish modernists like Sholem Asch and I. J. Singer once dominated the best-seller lists throughout the world. Joseph Sherman's readable, accessible translation of Bergelson's novel adds one more text to that canon and shows how valuable this canon is for any study of modern literature and culture, especially of the Jews of Europe. --Sander L. Gilman, University of Illinois, Chicago
.. .Opgang is a major contribution to Yiddish literature. Sherman enhances this edition with an excellent introductory essay and bibliography. --Choice Dovid Bergelson's�Opgang�is one of the most striking products of a modernist literature seemingly lost in recent history. Translations of forward-looking Yiddish modernists like Sholem Asch and I. J. Singer once dominated the best-seller lists throughout the world. Joseph Sherman's readable, accessible translation of Bergelson's novel adds one more text to that canon and shows how valuable this canon is for any study of modern literature and culture, especially of the Jews of Europe. ��Sander L. Gilman, University of Illinois, Chicago .. .Opgang�is a major contribution to Yiddish literature. Sherman enhances this edition with an excellent introductory essay and bibliography. ��Choice Dovid Bergelson's Opgang is one of the most striking products of a modernist literature seemingly lost in recent history. Translations of forward-looking Yiddish modernists like Sholem Asch and I. J. Singer once dominated the best-seller lists throughout the world. Joseph Sherman's readable, accessible translation of Bergelson's novel adds one more text to that canon and shows how valuable this canon is for any study of modern literature and culture, especially of the Jews of Europe. --Sander L. Gilman, University of Illinois, Chicago Dovid Bergelson's Opgang is one of the most striking products of a modernist literature seemingly lost in recent history. Translations of forward-looking Yiddish modernists like Sholem Asch and I. J. Singer once dominated the best-seller lists throughout the world. Joseph Sherman's readable, accessible translation of Bergelson's novel adds one more text to that canon and shows how valuable this canon is for any study of modern literature and culture, especially of the Jews of Europe. --Sander L. Gilman, University of Illinois, Chicago .. . Opgang is a major contribution to Yiddish literature. Sherman enhances this edition with an excellent introductory essay and bibliography. -- Choice
...Opgang is a major contribution to Yiddish literature. Sherman enhances this edition with an excellent introductory essay and bibliography. --Choice Dovid Bergelson's Opgang is one of the most striking products of a modernist literature seemingly lost in recent history. Translations of forward-looking Yiddish modernists like Sholem Asch and I. J. Singer once dominated the best-seller lists throughout the world. Joseph Sherman's readable, accessible translation of Bergelson's novel adds one more text to that canon and shows how valuable this canon is for any study of modern literature and culture, especially of the Jews of Europe. --Sander L. Gilman, University of Illinois, Chicago
Author Information
Among Yiddish prose writers of the early twentieth century, Dovid Bergelson (1884-1952) was a unique modernist voice. Born in Russia, he lived and traveled in Europe and the United States, but he finally moved to Moscow: in a world of conflicting ideologies and political unrest, he threw his lot in with Communism and the Soviet Union. He was executed in a post-World War II Stalinist purge of Jews. Joseph Sherman was a scholar of Yiddish literature. His publications include The Jewish Pope: Myth, Diaspora and Yiddish Literature and Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 333: Writers in Yiddish.
