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Blanksztejn, Anna.
Subjects
Jewish women -- Fiction.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Fiction.
Women in war -- Fiction.
Europe -- History -- 1918-1945 -- Fiction.
Lithuania -- Fiction.
Vilnius (Lithuania) -- Fiction.
Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921 -- Fiction.
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Blanksztejn, Anna.
Jewish women -- Fiction.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Fiction.
Women in war -- Fiction.
Europe -- History -- 1918-1945 -- Fiction.
Lithuania -- Fiction.
Vilnius (Lithuania) -- Fiction.
Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921 -- Fiction.
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Fear
: and
other
stories
/ Chana Blankshteyn ; translated by Anita Norich.
by
Blanksztejn, Anna.
Wayne State University Press, 2022.
Call #:
FICTION BLA
Subjects
Jewish women -- Fiction.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Fiction.
Women in war -- Fiction.
Europe -- History -- 1918-1945 -- Fiction.
Lithuania -- Fiction.
Vilnius (Lithuania) -- Fiction.
Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921 -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780814349274 (trade pbk.)
9780814349281 (hc.)
Description:
xxii, 111 p. ; 22 cm.
Notes:
Translated from the Yiddish.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Fear
-- Do not punish us -- The first hand -- The decree -- Director Vulman -- Who? -- An incident -- Colleague Sheyndele -- Our courtyard.
Summary:
Fear
and
Other
Stories
is a translation from Yiddish to English of the collected
stories
of Chana Blankshteyn (~1860-1939), a woman who may be almost entirely forgotten now but was widely admired during her long and productive life. The mere existence of these
stories
is itself a remarkable feat as the collection was published in July 1939, just before the Nazis invaded Poland and two weeks before Blankshteyn's death. Anita Norich's introduction argues that this is not a work of Holocaust literature (there are no death camps, partisans or survivors of WWII), but anti-Semitism is palpable, as is the threat of war and its aftermath. What could it have felt like to live under these conditions? How might a woman who was a feminist, a Jew, and an activist understand the recent past of war and revolution through which she had lived and also confront the horror that was beginning to unfold? The nine
stories
in this volume take place primarily in Vilna, as well as various parts of Europe. As if presaging what was to come, World War I and Russian civil wars are the backdrops to these
stories
, as Jews and non-Jews find themselves under German occupation or caught up in the revolutionary fervor that promised them much and took away almost everything. The young women in Blankshteyn's
stories
insist on their independence, on equality with their lovers, and on meaningful work. Like the men in the
stories
, they study, work, and yearn for love. The situations in which these characters find themselves may be unfamiliar to a contemporary reader, but their reactions to the turmoil, the frighteningly changing times, and the desire for love and self-expression are deeply resonant with today's audience. The history may be specific, but the emotions are universal. Blankshteyn's
stories
are both a view of the final gasp of Eastern European Jewish culture and a compelling modern perspective on the broader world. Students and scholars of history and culture, women's literature, and translation studies will wonder how they've gone this long without reading Blankshteyn's work.
Genre:
Short
stories
.
Jewish fiction
Yiddish fiction -- Translations into English.
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