The day my mother changed her name : and other stories
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The day my mother changed her name : and other stories
(The library of modern Jewish literature)
Syracuse University Press, 2008
大学図書館所蔵 全2件
  青森
  岩手
  宮城
  秋田
  山形
  福島
  茨城
  栃木
  群馬
  埼玉
  千葉
  東京
  神奈川
  新潟
  富山
  石川
  福井
  山梨
  長野
  岐阜
  静岡
  愛知
  三重
  滋賀
  京都
  大阪
  兵庫
  奈良
  和歌山
  鳥取
  島根
  岡山
  広島
  山口
  徳島
  香川
  愛媛
  高知
  福岡
  佐賀
  長崎
  熊本
  大分
  宮崎
  鹿児島
  沖縄
  韓国
  中国
  タイ
  イギリス
  ドイツ
  スイス
  フランス
  ベルギー
  オランダ
  スウェーデン
  ノルウェー
  アメリカ
収録内容
- The Maftir chronicles
- The swindle
- The midwife
- The day the war ended on Penn Avenue
- A Chanukah gift
- Cheder
- Viola
- The day my mother changed her name
- Cigarettes
- Fractions
- Miss Wheatley
- My life in the theater
- The mortgage
- Bar mitzvah soliloquy
- The second industry
- The informer
- The search for God at the A & P
- The atrocity
- Miss Portia's bosom
- The great wop Donaldson
- The incident
- My cousin Izzy
- The barn
- My mother and the Illui
- The shadchen
- The day I left
- Return to Pisa
- The library
- Disappearing act
- The day the messiah came
内容説明・目次
内容説明
William D. Kaufman grew up on his mother's kugel and his father's boyhood stories. The son of Jewish immigrants from Lithuania and the Ukraine and one of five children, he learned how to translate his colorful childhood into tales of his own, regaling audiences of family, friends, and eventually his retirement community with periodic public readings. Now, at the age of 93, Kaufman makes his stories, filled with a sharp wit and telling detail, available to a wider audience for the first time.In the title story a young Jewish boy is shamed by a narrow-minded teacher who forces him to admit, before the whole class, that his mother cannot read English. His mother's eventual encounter with the teacher offers a lesson in self-respect, with just the right balance of grace and moxie. In ""The Search for God in the A and P"" a young boy goes on a clandestine mission to compare prices at his father's grocery competition; the expedition meets with comic results when the young boy refuses to be bullied in this David-and-Goliath-style parable. These semi-autobiographical stories, populated with outsized and magnetic characters, subtly layer the specifics of the Jewish experience with universal dilemmas of childhood, growing up, and old age.
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