Chaim Grade (1910–1982)
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Grade was born in Vilna, Poland, where he received a thorough education in the talmudic academies of the region. He began writing poetry in 1932 and soon won literary recognition. He escaped the Nazi onslaught as a refugee in the Soviet Union, only to return to Poland after the war to find his mostra altro mother and wife killed and his hometown destroyed. His later work, both poetry and prose, reflect the tragic Holocaust theme and is dedicated to the re-creation of a world that is no more. His characters are deeply rooted in Jewish tradition and the lore of his native land; his poetry is forceful and dramatic, with the pathos of national and personal tragedy. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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Opere di Chaim Grade
Von Frauen und Rabbinern: Zwei Erzählungen: Zwei Erzhlungen (Die Andere Bibliothek, Band 431) (2020) 3 copie
Milḥemet ha-yetser מלחמת היצר 1 copia
Tsemaḥ Atlas צמח אטלס 1 copia
Der mames Shabos̀im 1 copia
מלחמת היצר 1 copia
דער שטומער מנין 1 copia
Opere correlate
Have I Got a Story for You: More Than a Century of Fiction from the Forward (2016) — Collaboratore — 31 copie
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- Altri nomi
- גרדה, חיים
Граде, Хаим - Data di nascita
- 1910-04-04
- Data di morte
- 1982-04-26
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Riverside Cemetery, Saddle Brook, New Jersey, USA
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Russia (birth)
USA - Luogo di nascita
- Vilnius, Lithuania
- Luogo di morte
- New York, New York, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Vilna, Russian Empire (birth | now Lithuania)
New York, New York, USA (death)
Paris, France
Central Asia - Attività lavorative
- poet
novelist
short-story writer
Yiddish writer
memoirist
Holocaust survivor - Relazioni
- Kaczerginski, Shmerke (friend)
- Organizzazioni
- Yung Vilne
- Breve biografia
- Chaim Grade was born to a Jewish family in Vilnius (Vilna), Lithuania, at that time part of the Russian Empire. His father Shlomo Mordecai Grade was a Hebrew teacher and an outspoken advocate of the European Jewish Enlightenment; his mother Vella sold fruit to help eke out a living for the family. Chaim received a strict religious education but also read secular books. In 1922, he gave up his studies and began publishing his stories and poems in Yiddish. During the early 1930s, he was among the founding members of the Yung-Vilne (Young Vilna) group of Modernist artists and writers. When Nazi Germany invaded Vilnius in World War II, he fled east and sought refuge in the Soviet Union. Both his young wife Frumme-Liebe and his mother, who had stayed behind, were killed. In 1945, he published Doyres (Generations), a collection of poems previously published and more recent poems about his lost family and friends. He remained in Soviet Central Asia until 1946, then lived briefly in Poland and Paris, where he helped revive Yiddish cultural life and become recognized as one of the defining voices of Holocaust literature. He married his second wife, Inna Hecker, and immigrated to the USA in 1948, settling in New York City. Among his acclaimed novels, the best known are probably The Agunah (1961) and The Yeshiva (2 vol., 1967–68). His 1951 short story "Mayn krig mit Hersh Raseyner" (My Quarrel with Hersh Rasseyner) was adapted into a 1991 Canadian film called The Quarrel and a play. In 1955, he published his memoirs, Der mames shabosim (My Mother’s Sabbath Days).
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- Opere
- 22
- Opere correlate
- 2
- Utenti
- 515
- Popolarità
- #48,205
- Voto
- 4.0
- Recensioni
- 4
- ISBN
- 19
- Lingue
- 3
- Preferito da
- 1
Grade paints a realistic and engrossing picture of Jewish life between the wars in the period where freethinking and secular movements were threatening the traditional way of life. In Tsemakh we have a man with horribly ordinary passions and doubts who takes pleasure in tormenting himself and generally alienates those around him. He is balanced by a whole host of scholars, villagers, families, and shopkeepers who spend their time just living their lives.
[full review of Volume 1 here: http://spacebeer.blogspot.com/2009/12/yeshiva-volume-1-by-chaim-grade-1967.html ]
[full review of Volume 2 here: http://spacebeer.blogspot.com/2010/01/yeshiva-volume-ii-masters-and-disciples.ht... ]… (altro)