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  • Genre:FICTION
  • SubGenre:Jewish
  • Language:English
  • Pages:396
  • eBook ISBN:9798987160954

The Glatstein Chronicles

by Jacob Glatstein

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Overview
Edited by Ruth Wisse, translated by Maier Deshell and Norbert Guterman This seminal American work from the Yiddish literary canon, in a restored English edition, offers the luminous narrative of the author's journey home to his Polish birthplace. In 1934, with World War II on the horizon, Jacob Glatstein (1896 –1971) traveled from his home in America to his native Poland to visit his dying mother. One of the foremost Yiddish poets of the day, he used his journey as the basis for two autobiographical novellas, together known as The Glatstein Chronicles, in which he intertwines childhood memories with observations of growing anti-Semitism in Europe.
Description
Edited by Ruth Wisse, translated by Maier Deshell and Norbert Guterman This seminal American work from the Yiddish literary canon, in a restored English edition, offers the luminous narrative of the author's journey home to his Polish birthplace. In 1934, with World War II on the horizon, Jacob Glatstein (1896 –1971) traveled from his home in America to his native Poland to visit his dying mother. One of the foremost Yiddish poets of the day, he used his journey as the basis for two autobiographical novellas, together known as The Glatstein Chronicles, in which he intertwines childhood memories with observations of growing anti-Semitism in Europe.
About the author
Jacob Glatstein, also called Yankev Glatshteyn, (born Aug. 20, 1896, Lublin, Pol.—died Nov. 19, 1971, New York, N.Y., U.S.), Polish-born poet and literary critic who in 1920 helped establish the Inzikhist ("Introspectivist") literary movement. In later years he was one of the outstanding figures in mid-20th-century American Yiddish literature. Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia. "Jacob Glatstein". Encyclopedia Britannica, 15 Nov. 2022, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jacob-Glatstein. Accessed 3 March 2023.