Fear and Other Stories, Hardcover by Norich, Anita (TRN); Blankshteyn, Chana,...

by Chana Blankshteyn

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Fear and Other Stories, Hardcover by Norich, Anita (TRN); Blankshteyn, Chana, ISBN 0814349285, ISBN-13 9780814349281, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Fear and Other Stories is a translation from Yiddish to English of the collected stories of Chana Blankshteyn (~1860–1939), a woman who may be almost entirely forgotten now but was widely admired during her long and productive life. The mere existence of these stories is itself a remarkable feat as the collection was published in July 1939, just before the Nazis invaded Poland and two weeks before Blankshteyn’s death. Anita Norich’s introduction argues that this is not a work of Holocaust literature (there are no death camps, partisans or survivors of WWII), but anti-Semitism is palpable, as is the threat of war and its aftermath. What could it have felt like to live under these conditions? How might a woman who was a feminist, a Jew, and an activist understand the recent past of war and revolution through which she had lived and also confront the horror that was beginning to unfold? The nine stories in this volume take place primarily in Vilna, as well as various parts of Europe. As if presaging what was to come, World War I and Russian civil wars are the backdrops to these stories, as Jews and non-Jews find themselves under German occupation or caught up in the revolutionary fervor that promised them much and took away almost everything. The young women in Blankshteyn’s stories insist on their independence, on equality

• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Year: 2022
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9780814349281
• Condition: Fine

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