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Is it Good for the Jews?
Adam Biro
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Description for Is it Good for the Jews?
Hardcover. A sequel to the author's collection of stories "Two Jews on a Train". Through twenty-nine tales, it spins stories of characters coping with the vicissitudes and reverses of daily life, while painting a portrait of a world of unassimilated Jewish life. Translator(s): Tihanyi, Catherine. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 139 x 16. Weight in Grams: 308.
'Jewish stories', writes Adam Biro, 'resemble every people's stories'. Yet at the same time there is no better way to understand the soul, history, millennial suffering, or, crucially, the joys of the Jewish people than through such tales - 'There's nothing', writes Biro, 'more revelatory of the Jewish being'. With "Is It Good for the Jews?" Biro offers a sequel to his acclaimed collection of stories "Two Jews on a Train". Through twenty-nine tales - some new, some old, but all finely wrought and rich in humor - Biro spins stories of characters coping with the vicissitudes and reverses of ... Read more
'Jewish stories', writes Adam Biro, 'resemble every people's stories'. Yet at the same time there is no better way to understand the soul, history, millennial suffering, or, crucially, the joys of the Jewish people than through such tales - 'There's nothing', writes Biro, 'more revelatory of the Jewish being'. With "Is It Good for the Jews?" Biro offers a sequel to his acclaimed collection of stories "Two Jews on a Train". Through twenty-nine tales - some new, some old, but all finely wrought and rich in humor - Biro spins stories of characters coping with the vicissitudes and reverses of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
Number of Pages
152
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226052175
SKU
V9780226052175
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About Adam Biro
Adam Biro is the author of Two Jews on a Train and One Must Also Be Hungarian. Catherine Tihanyi has translated numerous books from the French.
Reviews for Is it Good for the Jews?
"In applying an Old World sensibility to the present, the author underscores the nature of the divide between them, and the increasingly despairing punch line of each joke seems to become: Why did You abandon us?" - New Yorker"