Yenne Velt: The Great Works of Jewish Fantasy and Occult
by Joachim Neugroschel (Editor)
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Joachim Neugroschel has won three PEN translation awards and the French-American translation prize. He has also translated Thomas Mann's Death in Venice and Sacher-Masoch's Venus in Furs, both for Penguin Classics. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.Tags
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Even though I like the genres (Jewish stories and fantasy) and have enjoyed other books that combined them, I did not enjoy many of these stories, many of which seemed to ramble.
One story that stood out was "The Gilgul or The Transformation", by A.B. Gotlober, an entertaining satire of that recounts the successive reincarnations of a Jewish soul through various roles in the Jewish community and animals that shared their worst characteristics.
One story that stood out was "The Gilgul or The Transformation", by A.B. Gotlober, an entertaining satire of that recounts the successive reincarnations of a Jewish soul through various roles in the Jewish community and animals that shared their worst characteristics.
Interesting as a collection of folklore, but, in the main, the stories are pretty dull.
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Joachim Neugroschel was a well known literary translator (he translated French, German, Italian, Russian, Yiddish, and German). He also published poetry and was a poetry magazine founder. Neugroschel was born in Vienna on January 13, 1938. He grew up in New York City and graduated from Bronx Science in 1954, and Columbia University in 1958 with a show more degree in English and Comparative Literature. He moved to Europe and returned to New York six years later where he became a literary translator. Neugroschel was the winner of three PEN Translation Awards, the 1994 French-American Translation Prize, and the Guggenheim Fellowship in German Literature (1998). Neugroschel died on May 23, 2011 in Brooklyn, N.Y. He was 73. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- Yenne Velt: The Great Works of Jewish Fantasy and Occult
- Original publication date
- 1976
Classifications
- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, Fantasy, Horror
- DDC/MDS
- 839.130876608 — Literature & rhetoric German & related literatures Other Germanic literatures Yiddish literature Fiction
- LCC
- PJ5191 .E8 .Y4 — Language and Literature Oriental languages and literatures Oriental philology and literature Hebrew Other languages used by Jews Yiddish
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Statistics
- Members
- 363
- Popularity
- 86,191
- Reviews
- 2
- Rating
- (3.35)
- Languages
- English, Yiddish
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 8
- ASINs
- 1
