{"product_id":"the-first-day-and-other-stories-paperback","title":"The First Day and Other Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDvora Baron\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eNaomi Seidman\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eChana Kronfeld\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDvora Baron (1887-1956), the first modern Hebrew woman writer, was born in a small Lithuanian town in 1887. Her father, a rabbi, gave his daughter a thorough education, an extraordinary act at the time. Baron immigrated to Palestine in 1910, married a prominent Zionist activist, but defied the implicit ideological demands of the Zionist literary scene by continuing to write of the shtetl life she had left behind.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe eighteen stories in this superb collection offer an intimate re-creation of Jewish Eastern Europe from a perspective seldom represented in Hebrew and Yiddish literature of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Baron brings vividly to life the shtetl experiences of women and other disenfranchised members of the Jewish community. Her stories relate the feelings of a newborn girl, a \"Jewish\" dog, an impoverished bookkeeper, a young widow who must hire herself out as a wet-nurse, and others who face emotional and physical hardships.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBaron's fluid writing style pushes the flexibility of Hebrew and Yiddish syntax to its limits, while her profound knowledge of both biblical and rabbinical literature lends rich subtleties to her stories. A companion to \u003ci\u003eConversations with Dvora: An Experimental Biography of the First Modern Hebrew Woman Writer, \u003c\/i\u003eby Amia Lieblich (California, 1997), this collection is drawn from Baron's earlier as well as later works.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eWho knew? That a Jewish village in Eastern Europe was observed by a skeptical, feminist eye, transformed into agile, delicate, earthy stories, written in Hebrew, a language never learned by most women? That a world of men and of women, deserted, divorced, unloved--later decimated by the Nazis--could spring to life again, in stunning translations that expose the stories' biblical moves and modernist countermoves? Now we know: Hebrew fiction and English fiction just gained an astonishing foremother. Sit, take a bite, read.--Mary Felstiner, Professor of History at San Francisco State University, author of \u003ci\u003eTo Paint Her Life: Charlotte Salomon in the Nazi Era\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"We know the voice of the shtetl through Shomlom Aleichem, I. B. Singer, and others; now we have a woman's perspective in the work of Dvora Baron. This mysterious, eccentric author is wonderfully translated for the first time in English, just as Israelis are beginning to treasure her. It is a triumph for literature, for women, and for readers that she is now available to us.\"--E. M. Broner, author of \u003ci\u003eA Weave of Women, The Telling, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eBringing Home the Light\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNaomi Seidman \u003c\/b\u003eis Associate Professor of Jewish Culture and Director of the Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eA Marriage Made in Heaven: The Sexual Politics of Hebrew and Yiddish \u003c\/i\u003e(California, 1997). \u003cb\u003eChana Kronfeld \u003c\/b\u003eis Associate Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. Her book \u003ci\u003eOn the Margins of Modernism: Decentering Literary Dynamics \u003c\/i\u003e(California, 1995) received the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize of the Modern Language Association.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 261\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.61 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 30, 2001\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52466190025009,"sku":"9780520085381","price":60.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0958\/3486\/5969\/files\/ZjBmUks3bmhNM3R0aVFzaCtEVkd1Zz09.webp?v=1770216920","url":"https:\/\/www.welibooks.com\/products\/the-first-day-and-other-stories-paperback","provider":"Welibooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}