Der Übersetzer und Schriftsteller Alexander Eliasberg (1879 – 1924) verließ Russland 1905 und übersiedelte nach Deutschland. Bekannt wurde er durch seine kongenialen Übersetzungen russischer Klassiker, daneben engagierte er sich aber auch für die jüdisch-polnische Erzähltradition. Der vorliegende Band enthält Sagen und märchenhafte Erzählungen aus dem Umfeld des Chassidismus. Reprint der 1916 in München erschienenen Erstausgabe.
In the final years of his life, Chekhov had reached the height of his powers as a dramatist, and also produced some of the stories that rank among his masterpieces. The poignant �The Lady with the Little Dog� and �About Love� examine the nature of love outside of marriage � its romantic idealism and the fear of disillusionment. And in stories such as �Peasants�, �The House with the Mezzanine� and �My Life� Chekhov paints a vivid picture of the conditions of the poor and of their powerlessness in the face of exploitation and hardship. With the works collected here, Chekhov moved away from the realism of his earlier tales � developing a broader range of characters and subject matter, while forging the spare minimalist style that would inspire such modern short-story writers as Hemingway and Faulkner.
Of all the characters in modern Jewish fiction, the most beloved is Tevye, the compassionate, irrepressible, Bible-quoting dairyman from Anatevka, who has been immortalized in the writings of Sholem Aleichem and in acclaimed and award-winning theatrical and film adaptations. And no Yiddish writer was more beloved than Tevye’s creator, Sholem Rabinovich (1859–1916), the “Jewish Mark Twain,” who wrote under the pen name of Sholem Aleichem. Beautifully translated by Hillel Halkin, here is Sholem Aleichem’s heartwarming and poignant account of Tevye and his daughters, together with the “Railroad Stories,” twenty-one tales that examine human nature and modernity as they are perceived by men and women riding the trains from shtetl to shtetl.
Zbiór opowieści chasydzkich, zebranych i przetłumaczonych na język niemiecki przez Eliasberga, rosyjskiego Żyda, który korzystał przy tym z żydowskich modlitewników i popularnej książki „Kehal chasidim”. Zbiór, wydany po raz pierwszy w 1916 r. w Monachium, był zapewne lekturą Bubera i Scholema.
Written in the 1830s and early 1840s, these comic stories tackle life behind the cold and elegant façade of the Imperial capital from the viewpoints of various characters, such as a collegiate assessor who one day finds that his nose has detached itself from his face and risen the ranks to become a state councillor (‘The Nose’), a painter and a lieutenant whose romantic pursuits meet with contrasting degrees of success (‘Nevsky Prospect’) and a lowly civil servant whose existence desperately unravels when he loses his prized new coat (‘The Overcoat’). Also including the ‘Diary of Madman’, these Petersburg Tales paint a critical yet hilarious portrait of a city riddled with pomposity and self-importance, masterfully juxtaposing nineteenth-century realism with madcap surrealism, and combining absurdist farce with biting satire.
Glück und Unglück liegen mitunter nah beieinander, bisweilen sogar in der Liebe. Meisterhaft verstehen es die in diesem Band versammelten russischen Erzähler des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts, die vielgestaltigen Wechselfälle des Lebens und Liebens mit ihren Geschichten in betörende Dichtung zu verwandeln. Vertreten sind folgende Autoren: Alexander Puschkin, Nikolai Gogol, Iwan Turgenjew, Anton Tschechow, Fjodor Sologub, Maxim Gorki und Leonid Andrejew.
