NeverEnding Tales by Jack Zipes HARDBACK 9780691263779

Name: NeverEnding Tales by Jack Zipes HARDBACK 9780691263779
Brand: Princeton University Press

Princeton University Press

Never-Ending TalesStories from the Golden Age of Jewish Literature\nAuthor(s): Jack Zipes\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Princeton University Press, United States\nImprint: Princeton University Press\nISBN-13: 9780691263779, 978-0691263779\nSynopsis\nAn anthology of European and American short stories from the 1870s through the 1930s in which Jewish writers respond to antisemitism with humor, satire, irony, and hope\n\nBetween the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Jewish writers in Europe and America published countless stories addressing the Jewish Questionthe intense debate about the treatment of Jews following their so-called emancipation. In Never-Ending Tales, Jack Zipes presents more than two dozen of these stories, which attempted to subvert the antisemitism that the debate represented. Humorous and bittersweet, and filled with ironic reversals, these are stories of fantasy, magic, and transformationtales about little people who assert their humanity; about the Gol.