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נאריש זשלאָב מענטש

"As #YIVO Institute for #Jewish Research archivists pored over 200,000 pages of materials from the #literary estate of acclaimed #Yiddish #writer Chaim Grade, which the #nonprofit acquired in 2010 after Grade’s widow died, they knew of rumors of an unpublished novel. Several years into their research, they found the #manuscript of Sons and Daughters, which, with YIVO’s help, was #published in English last month.

Excavating lost Jewish cultural gems has been a cornerstone of YIVO’s mission for 100 years, since it was founded in 1925, according to Jonathan Brent, the nonprofit’s CEO, who has led the organization for more than 15 years."

tjvnews.com/2025/04/at-100-yiv

The Jewish Voice · At 100, YIVO Aims to Be More Global“YIVO was conceived as a kind of Smithsonian Institution-Library of Congress of Eastern European Jews,” Eddy Portnoy, director of exhibitions at the nonprofit, told JNS. By: Vita Fellig As YIVO Institute for Jewish Research archivists pored over 200,000 pages of materials from the literary estate of acclaimed Yiddish writer Chaim Grade, which the nonprofit acquired […]
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Today in labor history April 28, 1896: Tristan Tzara was born. He was a Romanian-French poet, journalist, playwright, literary and art critic, film director. He co-founded the anti-establishment Dada movement. During Hitler’s rise to power, he participated in the anti-fascist movement and the French Communist Party. In 1934, Tzara organized a mock trial of Salvador Dalí because of his fawning over Hitler and Franco. The surrealists Andre Breton, Paul Éluard and René Crevel helped run the trial. In the 1940s, Tzara lived in Marseilles with a large group of anti-fascist artists and writers, under the protection of American diplomat Varian Fry. These included Victor Serge, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Andre Breton and Max Ernst. Later he joined the French Resistance, writing propaganda and running their pirate radio station. After the Liberation of Paris, he wrote for L'Éternelle Revue, a communist newspaper edited by Jean-Paul Sartre. Other contributors to the newspaper included Louis Aragon, Éluard, Jacques Prévert and Pablo Picasso. Varian Fry, and his communal home for radicals in hiding, was portrayed in the historical drama series “Transatlantic.”

#workingclass #LaborHistory #dada #TristanTzara #nazis #antifascist #poetry #literary #communism #fascism #surrealism #maxernst #sartre #picasso #victorserge #dali #andrebreton #film #hitler #books #playwright @bookstadon

Robert Delaunay's portrait of Tzara, 1923. By Robert Delaunay - http://www.museoreinasofia.es/sites/default/files/obras/AD00372.jpg, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=38764400
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Today in Labor History April 27, 1882: Jessie Redmon Fauset was born. She was an African-American editor, poet, essayist, novelist, and educator. Her emphasis on portraying an accurate image of African-American life and history inspired literature of the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s. In her fiction, she created black characters who were working professionals. This was inconceivable to white Americans at the time. Her stories dealt with themes like racial discrimination, "passing", and feminism. From 1919 to 1926, she was literary editor of The Crisis, a NAACP magazine.

#laborhistory #WorkingClass #naacp #africanamerican #feminism #racism #literary #novel #poetry #writer #author #poet #fiction #discrimination #HarlemRenaissance #BlackMastadon @bookstadon

Fauset, seated, wearing a dress and a pearl necklace, looking directly at the camera.
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"It took Howard Langer two years from his first serious attempt at #writing — 60 pages longhand in pencil — to complete what would become “The Last Dekrepitzer.” It took almost two more years for the 74-year-old to find an agent and #publisher.

“I was 70 and I wanted to #write my whole life, and so I said to myself, ‘You know, if you don’t start now it’s not going to happen.’ So I sat down the next morning and began,” said Langer, a Philadelphia attorney who also teaches at the University of Pennsylvania’s Carey Law School.

Langer’s debut #novel about a fiddling #Hasidic #rabbi won the 2024 National #Jewish #Book Award and was shortlisted for The Athenaeum of Philadelphia’s 2024 #Literary Award.

“I was stunned when I received the call telling me of the award,” Langer said."

timesofisrael.com/fiddling-wit

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David Brent 📚

I was in Madison, Wisconsin, USA this week. Took a side trip to the House on The Rock. It's the setting for a pivotal scene in a certain fantasy novel that has since fallen out of favor with me.

1. It is exactly as the author described, which is to say, it is an EXPERIENCE.

2. I'm glad there were other people visiting. That is not a tour I'd want to take solo. So many creepy dolls, and a few clowns for good measure.

3. I should visit more #literary locales.

#Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon

"The largest indoor carousel in the world" located at the House on The Rock.
Painting of a circus clown
Room full of self playing musical instruments
Antique dolls behind a window
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