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Yiddish Genesis
Contributor(s): Fein, Richard J. (Author)
ISBN: 193814404X     ISBN-13: 9781938144042
Publisher: Brickhouse Books, Inc.
OUR PRICE:   $13.50  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: October 2012
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Jewish
Physical Information: 0.3" H x 5.9" W x 9" (0.50 lbs) 137 pages
Themes:
- Ethnic Orientation - Jewish
 
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Publisher Description:
"Yiddish Genesis" is a chronological gathering of personal essays, written between 1968 and 2010, which explores Fein's relationship to Yiddish and the Book of Genesis. The book may be seen as informal forays into his obsessions with this material, these obsessions going back to his childhood. Fein has entered this material as a way of enabling him to claim his obsessions, or them to claim him--not so different from the way his poetry works.

(Author's intro: ) "This book could not have been written without obsessions that go back to my childhood and that then re-emerge as findings of the adult I became. When obsessions have obtained a voice, they then can shape experience. Whatever the conceptions and chimeras that rove here, I ride them to travel more deeply into Yiddish and Genesis. I have entered and re-entered my materials as ways of enabling me to claim them, or them to claim me not so different from the way my poetry works.