Literature as a Medium for Memory - The Universe of Sholem Asch's Novels

The book focuses on the presentation of some basic figures of memory that are present in the twenty-six novels by the Yiddish writer Sholem Asch. This study shows how memory is crystallized in the experience of surrounding landscapes and nature, and particularly in the reality shaped by man: towns and cities, family, religion, festivities and everyday life, the world of dreams and ideas as well as the biblical and historical events to which the author refers. Asch tried to preserve the common memory as perceived by Jews but since the target readers of his works were both Jews and Christians, his work has had an impact on both the collective memory of his own people and the treasury of universal human memory.

List of contents

Contents: Jewish Life in Poland: "From the world which is already gone" - Literature as a Reflection and Co-Creator of Common Memory - Memory in Sholem Asch's Novels - Was Sholem Asch a Polish Author? - First Editions of Asch's Works in Yiddish and Their Translations.

About the author

Magdalena Sitarz graduated in German Philology at Jagiellonian University (Poland), where she also received her doctoral and post-doctoral degree. She has worked at the Institute of German Philology at Jagiellonian University since 1988, currently she is Assistant Professor. Her doctoral dissertation contains an analysis of Yiddish proverbs as compared to their Polish and German counterparts.

Product details

• Authors: Magdalena Sitarz
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2013
• EAN: 9783631638927
• ISBN: 978-3-631-63892-7
• No. of pages: 379
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 29 mm x 210 mm
• Weight: 640 g
• Series: Polish Studies - Transdisciplinary Perspectives; Polish Studies - Transdisciplinary Perspectives; Polish Studies ¿ Transdisciplinary Perspectives
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > General, dictionaries