{"product_id":"the-first-day-and-other-stories-9780520085381","title":"The First Day and Other Stories","description":"Dvora Baron (1887-1956), the first modern Hebrew woman writer, was born in a small Lithuanian town in 1887. Her father, a rabbi, gave his daughter a thorough education, an extraordinary act at the time. Baron immigrated to Palestine in 1910, married a prominent Zionist activist, but defied the implicit ideological demands of the Zionist literary scene by continuing to write of the shtetl life she had left behind.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe eighteen stories in this superb collection offer an intimate re-creation of Jewish Eastern Europe from a perspective seldom represented in Hebrew and Yiddish literature of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Baron brings vividly to life the shtetl experiences of women and other disenfranchised members of the Jewish community. Her stories relate the feelings of a newborn girl, a \"Jewish\" dog, an impoverished bookkeeper, a young widow who must hire herself out as a wet-nurse, and others who face emotional and physical hardships.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBaron's fluid writing style pushes the flexibility of Hebrew and Yiddish syntax to its limits, while her profound knowledge of both biblical and rabbinical literature lends rich subtleties to her stories. A companion to \u003ci\u003eConversations with Dvora: An Experimental Biography of the First Modern Hebrew Woman Writer, \u003c\/i\u003eby Amia Lieblich (California, 1997), this collection is drawn from Baron's earlier as well as later works.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-2295390\"\u003eDvora Baron\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/30\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 261\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.76lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.61d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780520085381\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0520085388\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC029000\"\u003eShort Stories (single author)\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNaomi Seidman \u003c\/b\u003eis 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 \u003ci\u003eA Marriage Made in Heaven: The Sexual Politics of Hebrew and Yiddish \u003c\/i\u003e(California, 1997). \u003cb\u003eChana Kronfeld \u003c\/b\u003eis Associate Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. Her book \u003ci\u003eOn the Margins of Modernism: Decentering Literary Dynamics \u003c\/i\u003e(California, 1995) received the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize of the Modern Language Association.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44443333918957,"sku":"9780520085381","price":49.92,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_a1c3352d-756a-495d-9edf-0fde6755e490.jpg?v=1700228635","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/the-first-day-and-other-stories-9780520085381","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}