Blessed Hands: Stories - Couverture souple

Halpern, Frume

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1642510491 ISBN 13 : 9781642510492

Editeur : Frayed Edge Press, 2023

Synopsis

A plain factory worker who hides herself from life finds new possibilities opening up when a co-worker invites her to a political lecture. A humble shoemaker gains confidence and pride in his work after a yeshiva student introduces him to the philosophy of Spinoza. An unhappy housewife has new emotions stirred in her by an intellectual boarder. An African American man works his entire life standing, only to find himself unable to walk in retirement. A Jewish family waits in sorrow and anger as their loved ones' fates are played out on the national news. Frume Halpern brings these "slice of life" stories to life in this collection of short stories featuring protagonists on the fringes of American society: immigrants, Jews, African Americans, and the disabled, the sick, and the poor.

Blessed Hands is the frst ever complete English-language translation of Gebenshte hent: dertseylungen, along with the original foreword by Isaac Elchanan Ronch and an afterword by the translator. This collection contains short stories were that were published over several decades in the left-wing daily newspaper Morgn frayhayt [Morning Freedom] and other Yiddish-language outlets in mid-20th century New York. ​These psychologically insightful stories present the lives of protagonists who are working-class poor, social outcasts, and those experiencing illness, disability, and racism. Halpern worked as a massage therapist in a hospital and many of these stories are about those who work with their hands: workshop/factory workers, piece workers, a shoemaker, a butcher, and a hairdresser.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Frume Halpern (neé Tarloff, among other forms) was born ca. 1881-1888(?) in Bialystok, Poland. She immigrated to the United States in 1904, and became a naturalized citizen in 1914. She worked as a massage therapist in the Bronx Hospital, and wrote stories which appeared in Yiddish-language publications such as Morgn frayhayt (Morning Freedom) and the Zamlungen (Collections). Gebenshte hent (Blessed Hands), a collection of these stories, is her only book. Halpern died in 1965.

​Yermiyahu Ahron Taub is a poet, writer, and Yiddish literary translator. He is the author of two books of fiction, Beloved Comrades: A Novel in Stories (2020) and Prodigal Children in the House of G-d: Stories (2018), and six volumes of poetry, including A Mouse Among Tottering Skyscrapers: Selected Yiddish Poems (2017). Taub's most recent translation from the Yiddish is Dineh: An Autobiographical Novel by Ida Maze (2022).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Frayed Edge Press
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1642510491
• ISBN 13: 9781642510492
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 328
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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