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- catalog abstract "During the early 1930s Jacob Marateck (1883-1950), a Polish-born immigrant to the United States, resumed the journal he had begun during the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05. At the time of his death he had filled a total of twenty-eight notebooks, none of which had he had the opportunity to revise and edit for publication in English. To the present-day reader, they will undoubtedly evoke ready echoes of the society and culture of what collectively has come to be known as the shtetl -- the lost world of East European Jewry. Finally, there is also the story of Jacob Marateck, now a soldier in the Czar's army, finds himself adrift on the blood-soaked battlefields of Manchuria, a participant in the Russo-Japanese War. His notebooks serve to remind us that for a people simply to have survived through nineteen centuries of unrelenting hostility, most of them have truly belonged to that biblical breed of "giants of the earth"--Compassionate yet full of brawling vitality, pious yet earthy, stubbornly determined to survive without forfeiting their humanity, and not all inclined "to let anyone spit into his kasha". To prepare this huge windfall of stories, fragments, and notes for publication called not only for translation and editing, but frequently also for connective passages of imaginative reconstruction. Involving the talents of writer, historian, and literary archaeologist -- his youngest daughter, Anita, and son-in-law, Shimon -- serve him well.".
- catalog contributor b931916.
- catalog contributor b931917.
- catalog contributor b931918.
- catalog contributor b931919.
- catalog coverage "Russia Social conditions 1801-1917.".
- catalog coverage "Soviet Union Social conditions.".
- catalog created "c1976.".
- catalog date "1976".
- catalog date "c1976.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1976.".
- catalog description "During the early 1930s Jacob Marateck (1883-1950), a Polish-born immigrant to the United States, resumed the journal he had begun during the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05. At the time of his death he had filled a total of twenty-eight notebooks, none of which had he had the opportunity to revise and edit for publication in English. To the present-day reader, they will undoubtedly evoke ready echoes of the society and culture of what collectively has come to be known as the shtetl -- the lost world of East European Jewry. Finally, there is also the story of Jacob Marateck, now a soldier in the Czar's army, finds himself adrift on the blood-soaked battlefields of Manchuria, a participant in the Russo-Japanese War. His notebooks serve to remind us that for a people simply to have survived through nineteen centuries of unrelenting hostility, most of them have truly belonged to that biblical breed of "giants of the earth"--Compassionate yet full of brawling vitality, pious yet earthy, stubbornly determined to survive without forfeiting their humanity, and not all inclined "to let anyone spit into his kasha". To prepare this huge windfall of stories, fragments, and notes for publication called not only for translation and editing, but frequently also for connective passages of imaginative reconstruction. Involving the talents of writer, historian, and literary archaeologist -- his youngest daughter, Anita, and son-in-law, Shimon -- serve him well.".
- catalog description "Introduction to a nickel notebook -- The reluctant wedding -- The Samurai of Vishogrod and the very small pogrom -- Eating days -- The lean of the land -- Return from the Netherworld -- A trade for an aristocrat -- A cosmopolitan way of life -- The smell of fresh bread -- The great Warsaw labor dispute -- How to become a Czar's son-in-law -- A small cheer for corruption -- The Litvaks -- The fall (and resurrection) of Haman -- A blow struck for the revolution -- The lost and found battlefield -- Banzai! -- This way to the firing squad -- The second road to the left.".
- catalog extent "207 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Samurai of Vishogrod.".
- catalog identifier "0827600747 :".
- catalog isFormatOf "Samurai of Vishogrod.".
- catalog issued "1976".
- catalog issued "c1976.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog language "engyid".
- catalog publisher "Philadelphia : Jewish Publication Society of America,".
- catalog relation "Samurai of Vishogrod.".
- catalog spatial "Russia Social conditions 1801-1917.".
- catalog spatial "Soviet Union Social conditions.".
- catalog spatial "Soviet Union".
- catalog subject "DS135.R95 M288".
- catalog subject "Jewish soldiers Personal narratives.".
- catalog subject "Jewish soldiers Soviet Union Biography.".
- catalog subject "Jews Soviet Union Social conditions.".
- catalog subject "Marateck, Jacob, 1883-1950.".
- catalog subject "Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905 Personal narratives, Jewish.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction to a nickel notebook -- The reluctant wedding -- The Samurai of Vishogrod and the very small pogrom -- Eating days -- The lean of the land -- Return from the Netherworld -- A trade for an aristocrat -- A cosmopolitan way of life -- The smell of fresh bread -- The great Warsaw labor dispute -- How to become a Czar's son-in-law -- A small cheer for corruption -- The Litvaks -- The fall (and resurrection) of Haman -- A blow struck for the revolution -- The lost and found battlefield -- Banzai! -- This way to the firing squad -- The second road to the left.".
- catalog title "The Samurai of Vishogrod : the notebooks of Jacob Marateck / retold by Shimon and Anita Wincelberg.".
- catalog type "text".