Utter Chaos

Informationen zum Autor Sammy Gronemann (1875-1952) was a lawyer, Zionist, and writer in Germany. He coedited a satirical Zionist magazine and served as a translator in Europe during World War I. He was the son of rabbi and an observant Jew, though he attacked many aspects of the ultra-Orthodox movement. He emigrated to Palestine in 1936. His play, The King and the Cobbler, was a smash hit in Tel Aviv in 1943. Penny Milbouer is translator of Michael Wieck's A Childhood under Hitler and Stalin: Memoires of a "Certified" Jew and Maria Roselli's The Asbestos Lie: The Past and Present of an Industrial Catastrophe . Klappentext With deep insight into German society, German-Jewish culture, and antisemitism, Utter Chaos paints a highly entertaining portrait of German Jews at the beginning of the twentieth century. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword Joachim Schlör Translator's Introduction 1. Goethe in Borytshev 2. A Literary Enterprise 3. A Pious Fund 4. Pastoral Care 5. Paradise Apples 6. The Sounds of Easter 7. The Trumpet Sounds 8. The Minyan Man 9. The First Born 10. Resistance 11. Pogrom 12. The Grand Festival Week Glossary and Comments Index

Product details

• Authors: Sammy Gronemann, Sammy/ Milbouer Gronemann, Gronemann Sammy
• Assisted by: Foreword by Joachim Schlor Translated by (Editor), Penny Milbouer (Translation)
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2016
• EAN: 9780253019578
• ISBN: 978-0-253-01957-8
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Jewish Literature and Culture; Jewish Literature and Culture; Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature