Religious Questions, Rulings, Divorces, and Weddings from a Rabbinical Court in Poland
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Abstract
This feuilleton, published by Yiddish writer Isaac Bashevis Singer under the pseudonym Yitskhok Varshavsky, tells a series of ‘tsikave geshikhtes’ (spicy stories) about the transgressive behavior of common Jews. In a highly entertaining manner, the feuilleton depicts the meshugas (craziness) of the lowest strata of Warsaw Jewry. It is an early example of the literary trends of commemoration of ‘a world that is no more’ that would dominate post-war Yiddish literature.
Title (English)
Religious Questions, Rulings, Divorces, and Weddings from a Rabbinical Court in Poland
Title (original)
שאלות, דין-תורהס, גט׳ן און חתונות, וואס פלעגען פארקומען אין א בית-דין שטוב אין פוילען
Title (transliterated)
Shayles, din-toyres, getn un khasenes, vos flegn forkumen in a beys-din shtub in poyln
Date Issued
August 13, 1944
Place issued
Author
Newspaper
Language
Content type
Feuilleton
Translator
David Stromberg
Contributor
Jan Schwarz
Copyright status
With the kind permission of the Isaac Bashevis Singer Literary Trust
Copyright holder
Singer Family Trust
URI
Keywords
Poland, Warsaw, commemoration, psychoanalysis, Jewish tradition
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