Avigdor Hameiri

Broschiertes Buch

Under a Bloodred Sky

Avigdor Hameiri's War Stories and Poetry

Herausgeber: Appelbaum, Peter C; Hecht, Dan / Übersetzer: Appelbaum, Peter C; Hecht, Dan

Beschreibung

This book represents an anthology of Avigdor Hameiri's ten most compelling war stories and poetry. They are unique in mixing the supernatural and macabre with war, pogroms, and antisemitism, and reflect the unique complexity of the Jewish soldier's experience of the most vicious war the world had yet witnessed to date.

Autor

Peter Appelbaum is a retired microbiologist who is spending his retirement years writing and translating books about Jewish history during World War I and the immediate post-war period. He is the recipient of the 2019 Rise Domb Porjes prize for his translation of Avigdor Hameiri's Hell on Earth. Dan Hecht is a doctoral student at the School of Cultural Studies at Tel Aviv University who wrote an extensive Masters thesis on the writings of Avigdor Hameiri, focusing on his dual national loyalty to his Hungarian heritage and his Hebrew homeland. He is currently writing his PhD on the essayistic prose of Eliezer Steinmann.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Academic Studies Press
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. März 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 150mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 272g
• ISBN-13: 9798887190679
• Artikelnr.: 66129938