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- ISBN 9780810144392
- Weight: 228g
- Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 30 Nov 2021
- Publisher: Northwestern University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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From the Jewish Provinces showcases a brilliant and nearly forgotten voice in Yiddish letters. An insistently original writer whose abrupt departure from the literary scene is the stuff of legend, Fradl Shtok composed stories that describe the travails of young women looking for love and desire in a world that spurns them. These women struggle with disability, sexual violence, and unwanted marriage, striving to imagine themselves as artists or losing themselves in fantasy worlds. The men around them grapple with their own frustrations and failures to live up to stifling social expectations. Through deft portraits of her characters’ inner worlds Shtok grants us access to unnoticed corners of the Jewish imagination.
Set alternately in the Austro?Hungarian borderlands and in New York City, Shtok’s stories interpret the provincial worlds of the Galician shtetl and the Lower East Side with literary sophistication, experimenting with narrative techniques that make her stories expertly alive to women’s aesthetic experiences.
Set alternately in the Austro?Hungarian borderlands and in New York City, Shtok’s stories interpret the provincial worlds of the Galician shtetl and the Lower East Side with literary sophistication, experimenting with narrative techniques that make her stories expertly alive to women’s aesthetic experiences.
Fradl Shtok (1890–1990?) was born in Galicia, near the border between the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Russia. She emigrated to New York at around the age of seventeen, quickly making a name for herself as an up-and-coming poet, highly regarded and widely anthologized. She published a collection of short stories, written in Yiddish, in 1919, and a novel, written in English, in 1927. By the 1930s Shtok had dropped out of the literary scene, and little is known about her later life.
Jordan D. Finkin is the rare book librarian at Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati. He is the author of Exile as Home: The Cosmopolitan Poetics of Leyb Naydus and An Inch or Two of Time: Time and Space in Jewish Modernisms.
Allison Schachter is an associate professor of Jewish studies, English, and Russian and East European studies at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of Diasporic Modernisms: Hebrew and Yiddish Literature in the Twentieth Century.
Jordan D. Finkin is the rare book librarian at Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati. He is the author of Exile as Home: The Cosmopolitan Poetics of Leyb Naydus and An Inch or Two of Time: Time and Space in Jewish Modernisms.
Allison Schachter is an associate professor of Jewish studies, English, and Russian and East European studies at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of Diasporic Modernisms: Hebrew and Yiddish Literature in the Twentieth Century.
