UID:
almafu_9959241681402883
Format:
1 online resource (426 pages) :
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illustrations, photographs.
ISBN:
1-5036-0186-2
Series Statement:
Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture
Content:
Written in pieces over the last 15 years of his life and published posthumously, S.Y. Agnon's 'A City in Its Fullness' is an ambitious, historically rich sequence of stories memorializing Buczacz, the city of his birth. This town in present-day Ukraine was once home to a vibrant Jewish population that was destroyed twice over - in the First World War and again in the Holocaust. Agnon's epic story cycle, however, focuses not on the particulars of destruction, but instead reimagines the daily lives of Buczacz's Jewish citizens, vividly preserving the vanished world of early modern Jewry. 'Ancestral Tales' shows how this collection marks a critical juncture within the Agnon canon. Through close readings of the stories against a shifting historical backdrop, Alan Mintz presents a multilayered history of the town, along with insight into Agnon's fictional transformations.
Note:
Previously issued in print: 2017.
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Frontmatter --
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Table of Contents --
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Acknowledgments --
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Introduction: “I Am Building a City” --
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1. A Baedeker to Buczacz --
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2. Inventing a Narrator --
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3. Worship and Danger: A Cantorial Triptych --
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4. Rabbis and Scholars --
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5. Jews and Poles --
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6. Austrian Mandates --
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7.Disappeared --
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8. Moments of Redemption --
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Epilogue --
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Notes --
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Index
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Issued also in print.
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In English.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-5036-0116-1
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781503601864
URL:
Stanford scholarship online
