| Vilna My Vilna: Stories by Abraham Karpinowitz Contributor(s): Karpinowitz, Abraham (Author), Mintz, Helen (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0815634269 ISBN-13: 9780815634263 Publisher: Syracuse University Press OUR PRICE: $47.45 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) - Fiction | Jewish |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2015037080 |
| Series: Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art |
| Physical Information: 0.63" H x 6" W x 9" (1.09 lbs) 224 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Jewish - Ethnic Orientation - Jewish |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Abraham Karpinowitz (1913-2004) was born in Vilna, Poland (present-day Vilnius, Lithuania), the city that serves as both the backdrop and the central character for his stories. He survived the Holocaust in the Soviet Union and, after two years in an internment camp on the island of Cyprus, moved to Israel, where he lived until his death. In this collection, Karpinowitz portrays, with compassion and intimacy, the dreams and struggles of the poor and disenfranchised Jews of his native city before the Holocaust. His stories provide an affectionate and vivid portrait of poor working women and men, like fishwives, cobblers, and barbers, and people who made their living outside the law, like thieves and prostitutes. This collection also includes two stories that function as intimate memoirs of Karpinowitz's childhood growing up in his father's Vilna Yiddish theater. Karpinowitz wrote his stories and memoirs in Yiddish, preserving the particular language of Vilna's lower classes. In this graceful translation, Mintz deftly preserves this colorful, often idiomatic Yiddish, capturing Karpinowitz's unique voice and rendering a long-vanished world for English-language readers. |