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Conversations with Dvora: An Experimental Biography of the First Modern Hebrew
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- Book Title
- Conversations with Dvora: An Experimental Biography of the First
- Publication Date
- 1997-05-22
- ISBN
- 9780520085411
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of California Press
ISBN-10
0520085418
ISBN-13
9780520085411
eBay Product ID (ePID)
838680
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
294 Pages
Publication Name
Conversations with Dvora : an Experimental Biography of the First Modern Hebrew Woman Writer
Language
English
Publication Year
1997
Subject
Women Authors, Judaism / General, Gender Studies, General, Jewish
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism, Religion, Philosophy, Social Science
Series
Contraversions: Critical Studies in Jewish Literature, Culture, and Society Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
16.5 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
96-037297
Dewey Edition
21
Series Volume Number
6
Original Language
Hebrew
Dewey Decimal
892.4/35
Synopsis
The life of Dvora Baron (1887-1956) evokes both inspiration and mystery. The daughter of a Russian rabbi, Dvora immigrated to Palestine at age 23, married a Zionist journalist, and wrote stories with surprisingly modern themes. The last 30 years of her life were spent in seclusion. Written as a series of imagined conservations at the end of her life, Amia Lieblich's biography takes a fascinating look at a most unusual woman., The life of Dvora Baron (1887-1956) evokes both inspiration and mystery. She was born in a Russian shtetl , the precocious daughter of a rabbi. Her intellectual gifts garnered her an education usually reserved for boys, and she soon proved a brilliant writer, widely published while still in her teens. At age twenty-three she immigrated to Palestine, married a prominent Zionist journalist, and joined the literary intelligentsia of the emerging nation. Her writing showed startlingly modernist points of view (a day-old baby girl in "The First Day" and a female Jewish dog in "Liska," for example), and she took on such topics as divorce ("Fradl"), incest ("Grandma Henya"), and domestic violence ("A Quarreling Couple"). But when her beloved brother died in 1923, Baron retired to her apartment. There she spent the last thirty years of her life, in touch with the literary community but rejecting her early stories as "my rags." She never left her residence and spent most of her time in bed, tended by her daughter. Israeli writer and psychologist Amia Lieblich was seventeen when Dvora Baron died; the two women never met. But Lieblich has written this biography as a series of conversations taking place in Dvora's darkened room during the last year of her life. Lieblich's vividly realized portrait elicits Dvora's memories of childhood; the descriptions of traditional women's lives in her writing; a view of her eccentric marriage and odd relationship with her daughter; and her thoughts on work, life, and death. Dvora is a living presence in these conversations; Lieblich approaches her as one of the great creative spirits of Hebrew literature. Having undergone a crisis in her own life, Lieblich seeks out Baron as a source of wisdom and direction. The result is an unusual and moving literary-psychological adventure that merges Dvora Baron's world with that of an Israeli woman today., The life of Dvora Baron (1887-1956) evokes both inspiration and mystery. She was born in a Russian shtetl, the precocious daughter of a rabbi. Her intellectual gifts garnered her an education usually reserved for boys, and she soon proved a brilliant writer, widely published while still in her teens. At age twenty-three she immigrated to Palestine, married a prominent Zionist journalist, and joined the literary intelligentsia of the emerging nation. Her writing showed startlingly modernist points of view (a day-old baby girl in "The First Day" and a female Jewish dog in "Liska," for example), and she took on such topics as divorce ("Fradl"), incest ("Grandma Henya"), and domestic violence ("A Quarreling Couple"). But when her beloved brother died in 1923, Baron retired to her apartment. There she spent the last thirty years of her life, in touch with the literary community but rejecting her early stories as "my rags." She never left her residence and spent most of her time in bed, tended by her daughter. Israeli writer and psychologist Amia Lieblich was seventeen when Dvora Baron died; the two women never met. But Lieblich has written this biography as a series of conversations taking place in Dvora's darkened room during the last year of her life. Lieblich's vividly realized portrait elicits Dvora's memories of childhood; the descriptions of traditional women's lives in her writing; a view of her eccentric marriage and odd relationship with her daughter; and her thoughts on work, life, and death. Dvora is a living presence in these conversations; Lieblich approaches her as one of the great creative spirits of Hebrew literature. Having undergone a crisis in her own life, Lieblich seeks out Baron as a source of wisdom and direction. The result is an unusual and moving literary-psychological adventure that merges Dvora Baron's world with that of an Israeli woman today.
LC Classification Number
PJ5053.B34Z7613 1997
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