Under a Bloodred Sky: Avigdor Hameiri’s War Stories and Poetry
Autor Avigdor Hameiri Peter C. Appelbaum, Dan Hechten Limba Engleză Paperback – 21 mar 2023
“[A] gripping mix of stories and poems… interwoven with moments of quiet, affecting beauty… This remarkable work rescues an important 20th-century Israeli voice from obscurity.” — Publishers Weekly
This book represents an anthology of Avigdor Hameiri’s ten most compelling war stories and poetry. His war stories are unique, and different from his Hebrew writer contemporaries in that they mix the supernatural and macabre with war, pogroms, and antisemitism. These stories and poems reflect like no other the unique complexity of the Jewish soldier’s experience of the most vicious and shocking war the world had witnessed to date — the battles, the agony, the dilemmas faced by the Jewish soldier, bravery versus cowardice, the notion of imminent death, breaking the sixth commandment (Thou Shalt Not Murder), elements of pacifism (particularly involving camaraderie between the common soldiers on both sides of the battlefield and their shared hatred for rank), and more.
This book represents an anthology of Avigdor Hameiri’s ten most compelling war stories and poetry. His war stories are unique, and different from his Hebrew writer contemporaries in that they mix the supernatural and macabre with war, pogroms, and antisemitism. These stories and poems reflect like no other the unique complexity of the Jewish soldier’s experience of the most vicious and shocking war the world had witnessed to date — the battles, the agony, the dilemmas faced by the Jewish soldier, bravery versus cowardice, the notion of imminent death, breaking the sixth commandment (Thou Shalt Not Murder), elements of pacifism (particularly involving camaraderie between the common soldiers on both sides of the battlefield and their shared hatred for rank), and more.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9798887190679
Pagini: 300
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: Academic Studies Press
Colecția Cherry Orchard Books
Locul publicării:Boston, MA, United States
Pagini: 300
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: Academic Studies Press
Colecția Cherry Orchard Books
Locul publicării:Boston, MA, United States
Cuprins
Introduction by Editors and Translators
Introduction
1. Under a Bloodred Sky (Poem)
2. Christians (or, How My Hair Turned White Overnight)
3. Silence (Poem)
4. Revenge
5. Satan’s Idyll (Poem)
6. On the Verge
7. Kill the Lights (Poem)
8. The Spider
9. On Guard (Poem)
10. A Blessed Fall Dawn
11. Question and Answer (Poem)
12. Hanale
13. Matrimony (Poem)
14. A Night of Vigil
15. By Hands of Man (Poem)
16. The Storm
17. The Filth King (Poem)
18. Sarah Bänger
19. The Bereaved Mothers (Poem)
20. Gift
21. On Fascism and Its Goal (Speech at the ceremonial opening of the Second National “Antifa” Conference in Tel Aviv, April 12, 1935 at Mugrabi Theater)
Recenzii
“With a deeply unsettling narrative voice, Hameiri entangles the real and the fantastic, blurring boundaries between sense and madness in the absurdity of war. Many of the stories seek to understand how the conditions of war not only command killing, but also annihilate compassion and human feeling. Hameiri’s use of word play, repetition, and disturbing metaphors sketch the horrors of war, both the physical and mental traumas. Chilling and unforgettable, Hameiri’s fiction and poetry is deserving of a much wider audience—those interested in war writing, Jewish literature, and international modernisms.”
— Constance Ruzich, Robert Morris University, Journal of Modern Jewish Studies
— Constance Ruzich, Robert Morris University, Journal of Modern Jewish Studies