The First Day and Other Stories

by Baron, Dvora; Seidman, Naomi; Kronfeld, Chana

• ISBN13: 9780520085381
• ISBN10: 0520085388
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-03-01
• Publisher: Univ of California Pr on Demand

Summary

Dvora Baron (1887-1956) was the first modern Hebrew writer. She emigrated from Lithuania to Palestine in 1910. In spirit and literary power she is a sister of writers in an extraordinary arc of Jewish tradition--Isaac Singer, I. Babel, Franz Kafka, Cynthia Ozick, Nathan Englander.

Author Biography

Naomi Seidman is Associate Professor of Jewish Culture and Director of the Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. She is the author of A Marriage Made in Heaven: The Sexual Politics of Hebrew and Yiddish (California, 1997). Chana Kronfeld is Associate Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. Her book On the Margins of Modernism: Decentering Literary Dynamics (California, 1995) received the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize of the Modern Language Association.

Table of Contents

Translator's Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction	xv
THE LATER STORIES
In the Beginning	3	(13)
The First Day	16	(10)
Fradl	26	(22)
Bill of Divorcement	48	(10)
Family	58	(32)
Deserted Wife	90	(9)
Shifra	99	(10)
Grandchildren	109	(7)
Ziva	116	(21)
THE EARLY STORIES
Sister	137	(10)
Buying the Books	147	(8)
Kaddish	155	(7)
Bubbe Henya	162	(10)
An Only Daughter	172	(6)
Fedka	178	(12)
Aggravation	190	(11)
The End of Sender Ziv	201	(21)
Liska	222	(13)
Glossary	235