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Index 231 Aberbach, David, 30, 33, 197n31 Abramovitsh, Sholem Yankev: Ahad Ha’am and, 31; childhood and, 29–30, 34, 43–45, 197n31; depression of, 29–30; Fishke der krumer, 32; forced migration of, 39–40; Hebrew writing of, 29–30, 31, 34; Dos kleyne mentshele, 13, 25, 33, 83; Di kliatshe, 33, 93; literature as vehicle for enlightenment, 29, 195n16; as Mendele , 26–27, 34, 36; monologues of, 60, 95, 201n42; myth of a Yiddish literary tradition, 195n9; Odessa circle of Jewish writers, 31; pogroms (1881–1882), 15; on Russian gentry autobiography, 38–39, 197n45; serializations in Yiddish press, 13; Sholem Aleichem and, 32, 33, 54, 196n28; Sketches to My Biography , 29, 30, 195n16; son’s conversion to Christianity and, 29–30; Di takse, 30, 32, 168; third-person narrative, 27, 35; Dos vintshfingerl, 27, 33, 198n51; Yiddish as literary medium, 30. See also Shloyme reb khayims Adamic, Louis, 100 Agnon, Shmuel Yosef, 164, 209n6 Di agune (Grade), 135, 172 Ahad Ha’am, 31 Aksenfeld, I., 40 Aleichem, Sholem. See Sholem Aleichem Alkvit, B., 101 America: as center of Yiddish literature, 17; English as language of Jewish writing in, 17, 100, 135, 181, 182; estrangement as allegory, 104, 111; isolation of Yiddish writers in, 63, 133–34, 163, 214n23; Jewish identity in, 100, 163; literary autobiography in, 18, 99; reverse migration from, 21, 100–101, 103, 108, 124, 138–39; Yiddish popular theater in, 121. See also dislocation; exile; Grade, Chaim; Singer, Isaac Bashevis “And When the King Went to War” (Konopnicka ), 101, 106 Anski, Sh., 155 Antin, Mary, 99, 163 anti-Semitism: Esterke legend and, 122– 23, 212; Glatshteyn on, 20, 98, 107; medicine and, 124; in Odessa, 83; pogroms , 15, 37, 39–40, 109, 156, 198n49; Polish-Jewish coexistence, 106–7, 123, 124; socialism and, 105 Arbeter tsaytung, 174 Asch, Sholem, 212n54, 216n59 assimilation. See America; anti-Semitism; Jewish identity autobiography. See confession; lifewriting ; Yiddish life-writing Aviezer (Gintsburg), 26 Bal-Makhshoves, 11, 12, 16, 54 Baron, Salo W., 13 Barthes, Roland, 160 Bayamim ha-hem. See A bild fun yidishn lebn in der lite Bay nakht afn altn mark (Peretz), 154, 157 Bellow, Saul, 138, 163, 181 Benjamin, Walter, 128, 216n62 Berditshevski, Micah Joseph, 27 Bergelson, Dovid, 17, 53, 61, 202n49 Bergner, Hinde, 19 Berkovitsh, Y. D., 52, 53, 56, 179 Bialik, Hayyim Nahman, 75, 105, 204n81 Biblical texts: in autobiography, 71, 107, 119; Jerusalem in, 107, 119; redemption message of Jeremiah, 141; in Yash books, 107, 112, 119, 122; in Yiddish, 18–19, 169 Bilder fun a provints rayze (Peretz), 25, 27– 28, 75, 121 A bild fun yidishn lebn in der lite (main part of Shloyme reb khayims [Abramovitsh]), 31, 33 bildungsroman, 10, 11, 28, 29, 43 Bilgoray (shtetl), 135, 144, 146–47, 180 Blocker, Joel, 218n68 Brenendike likht (Chagall), 19 Bruss, Elizabeth, 9, 81 Buloff, Joseph, 128, 152–55, 158, 219n92 Cahan, Abraham, 80, 85–86, 94–95, 99, 161, 207n37. See also Forverts Carafelli, Annette Wheeler, 202n50 Chagall, Bella, 19 chapbooks, 129, 130 children/childhood:Abramovitsh and, 29– 30, 34, 43–45, 197n31; accounts of, 42– 43; adolescence, 72–75, 81–82, 87, 91, 204n94; adulthood attained by, 115– 16; first conscious moments as a child in autobiography, 87, 116–17, 206n24; in Fun altn markplats (Buloff), 154, 155, 156; idealizations of, 56; kheyder education in, 64, 65; in Mayn tatns bezdn shtub, 143; romantic view of, 119, 155; sexual awakening in, 74, 82, 87, 89, 90, 92; Sholem Aleichem and, 44–45, 50, 56; in Singer of His Sorrow (Dimov), 155, 219n92; social class differences, 36–37; as witness, 143, 145, 154; young artists’ development from, 43, 161 Coe, Richard N., 43 confession: Augustinian confession, 9–10; Rousseauian modes of, 8–10, 11, 26, 81; in Yiddish life-writing, 14, 26, 40, 52, 59–60, 198n50 Dantsis, Mordechai, 79 Davidowicz, Lucy, 134, 163 death: childhood and, 119; ears as symbolic of, 103, 110, 116; of family members in the Holocaust, 135; di farkalekhte and, 113–14; of mothers, 51, 102, 103, 106, 108, 111, 117, 210n27; poetry as death defying, 128–29 Delacroix (“Conquerer of Death”), 155, 156 de Man, Paul, 8 Denkwürdigkeiten, 11–12 Derrida, Jacques, 8 Design and Truth in Autobiography (Pascal), 9 Der dibek (Anski), 155 Dichtung und Wahrheit (Goethe), 9, 11 Dik, Isaac Meir, 40, 131, 194n3 Dimov, Osip, 79, 155, 219n92 Dinezon, Yankev, 54 dislocation: apostasy narratives in Hebrew autobiography, 25–26, 194n3; di farkalekhte and, 112, 113–14; isolation of YiddishwritersinAmerica,63,133– 34...

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