David G. Roskies

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David G. Roskies (2009)

David G. Roskies (born March 2, 1948 in Montreal ) is a North American literary scholar and cultural historian and internationally recognized author and editor of numerous publications in the field of Yiddish literature and the culture of Eastern European Judaism . Roskies holds the Sol and Evelyn Henkind Chair of Yiddish Literature and Culture and Professor of Jewish Literature at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in New York .
Since February 2010 Roskies has also been director of the new Center for Yiddish Studies at Ben Gurion University in the Negev in Israel .

biography

Roskies was born in Montreal in 1948, where his family emigrated in 1940 from Vilnius via Budapest , Athens , Lisbon and New York . Roskie's mother Masha (born in 1906 in Vilnius) was the daughter of Fradl Matz, the operator of the "Matz-Presse", a publishing house that sold prayer books, Bibles and popular Yiddish literature. Roskie's childhood home in Montreal became a salon for Yiddish authors, actors, and artists. a. Isaac B. Singer , Melekh Ravitch , Itzik Manger , Avrom Sutzkever and Rachel Korn were guests. After attending Yiddish schools in Montreal, Roskies studied at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, where he received his doctorate in 1975.

In 2012 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Work area

One focus of Roskie's work is the Holocaust. In 1971 Roskies published Night Words: A Midrash about the Holocaust , one of the very first liturgical texts on the subject. In 1984 Roskies published Against the Apocalypse: Responses to Catastrophe in Modern Jewish Culture , for which he received the Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize from Phi Beta Kappa . A companion volume, The Literature of Destruction , was released in 1989. In 2007, Roskies was a senior scholar-in-residence at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum . He is currently working on a history of Holocaust literature ( Holocaust Literature: A History and Guide ).

A second focus of his work since 1975, the year of publication of The Shtetl Book: An Introduction to East European Jewish Life and Lore , published together with Diane Roskies , has been the folk culture of Ashkenazi Judaism. Thanks to a Guggenheim scholarship in 1985, Roskies began studying modern Jewish reconsideration to folk culture and folk telling , and published The Dybbuk and Other Writings by S. Ansky (Yale, 1992) and A Bridge of Longing: The Lost Art of Yiddish Storytelling ( Harvard, 1995). In 2005 the 30th anniversary edition of The Shtetl Book was published.

A third focus of Roskies' work is the Jewish search for the past. The Jewish Search for a Usable Past is the title of a collection of essays that he published in 1999. In 2008 the autobiographical work: Yiddishlands: A Memoir was published , which tells the story of modern Yiddish culture, viewed through the lens of one's own family history.

In 1981 Roskies co-founded Prooftexts: A Journal of Jewish Literary History , since 1998 he has been chief editor of the New Yiddish Library and co-editor of the Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization .

bibliography

  • David G. Roskies: Night Words: A Midrash about the Holocaust . Clal, 1971. [1]
  • Diane K. Roskies, David G. Roskies: The Shtetl Book: An Introduction To East European Jewish Life And Lore . Ktav Publishing House, New York, 1975
  • David G. Roskies: Against the Apocalypse: Responses to Catastrophe in Modern Jewish Culture . Harvard University Press, 1984
  • David G. Roskies (ed.): The Literature of Destruction: Jewish Responses to Catastrophe . Jewish Publication Society, Philadelphia, 1989
  • David G. Roskies (ed.): The Dybbuk and Other Writings by S. Ansky . Yale, 1992
  • David G. Roskies: A Bridge of Longing: The Lost Art of Yiddish Storytelling . Harvard, 1995
  • David G. Roskies: The Jewish Search for a Usable Past (Helen and Martin Schwartz Lectures in Jewish Studies) . Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 1999
  • David Roskies (ed.), Leonard Wolf (ed., Transl.): Introduction to Itzik Manger, The World According to Itzik: Selected Poetry and Prose . New Haven, Yale University Press, 2002.
  • Melvin Jules Bukiet (ed.), David G. Roskies (ed.): Scribblers on the Roof: Contemporary Jewish Fiction . Persea, New York, 2006.
  • David G. Roskies: Yiddishlands: A Memoir . Wayne State University Press, 2008
  • David G. Roskies: Holocaust Literature: A History and Guide University Press of New England (work in progress)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ David Roskies The Jewish Theological Seminary, New York ( Memento of May 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), accessed February 10, 2010
  2. ↑ aabgu.org ( memento of July 19, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) accessed on February 23, 2010
  3. ^ Susanne Klingenstein : Enlarging America: the cultural work of Jewish literary scholars, 1930-1990 . Syracuse University Press, 1998, ISBN 0-8156-0540-4 , p. 310
  4. ^ Wayne State University Press. Retrieved January 17, 2010
  5. ↑ www.jweekly.com accessed on January 17, 2010
  6. ↑ JTS press release ( Memento of May 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) accessed on January 17, 2010
  7. ↑ Interview with David G. Roskies in Forward ( Memento of May 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 23 kB) accessed on January 17, 2010
  8. ↑ Proof texts accessed on January 17, 2007
  9. ^ New Yiddish Library. Retrieved January 22, 2017
  10. ↑ https://iupress.org/journals/prooftexts/
personal data
SURNAME Roskies, David G.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian-American literary scholar and editor
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Montreal