Across the Great Divide: The Selected Essays of Abraham Coralnik, Volume 1"The publication of translated essays by Dr. Abraham Coralnik is an important step in enlarging our understanding of the cultural milieu of the early twentieth century in which Jewish immigrants from eastern Europe become Americanized."--Professor Eli Katz, University of California, Berkeley In 1937, when the essayist Abraham Coralnik died of a heart attack, Yiddish speakers in the United States lost one of their most articulate guides. As a columnist for the New York newspaper Der Tog (The Day) during the 1920's and 1930's, Coralnik moved effortlessly from discussions of Zionist politics to analyses of Marx and Plato to travelogues through the American heartland. As Europe exploded in anti-Semitism, and American Jewish life continued its spectacular transformation into the land of promise and confusion, Coralnik provided both insight and context for an immigrant community desperate to understand the changes taking place around it. Today, Coralnik's essays can be enjoyed not just for their perspective on two crucial decades of Jewish history, but for their timeless wisdom about culture, spirituality, philosophy and history. In Volume One of Across the Great Divide, Coralnik analyzes a European Jewish community in the process of disintegration, and an American Jewish society on the rise; the politics surrounding the development of pre-state Israel; the broad impact of the Hasidic movement; and the quirky existence of European Jewish refugees in places like Mexico and Cuba. About the Translator: Beatrice Coralnik Papo, the eldest daughter of Abraham Coralnik, was born in Berlin in 1913. Educated in Germany, Russia and France, she came to the U.S. in her early 20s. A social worker by profession, Mrs. Papo is a lifelong student of literature, and has spent the last two decades translating her father's essays. She lives in San Jose, California. |
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Page vii
... Politics A Time for Soul Searching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 The Paradox of Judaism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Civilization and “Kugelization ...
... Politics A Time for Soul Searching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 The Paradox of Judaism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Civilization and “Kugelization ...
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... political expression existed in stunning varieties, from Zionism to communism to the Bund; and theaters, art centers and cultural societies blossomed. It was a time of fierce — perhaps desperate — creativity, which the Jewish community ...
... political expression existed in stunning varieties, from Zionism to communism to the Bund; and theaters, art centers and cultural societies blossomed. It was a time of fierce — perhaps desperate — creativity, which the Jewish community ...
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... political life taking place for Jews and for Europeans in general. Coralnik was in Berlin when World War I started. As a Russian national, he felt it would be prudent to leave Germany, and he took his family to neutral Copenhagen. Stuck ...
... political life taking place for Jews and for Europeans in general. Coralnik was in Berlin when World War I started. As a Russian national, he felt it would be prudent to leave Germany, and he took his family to neutral Copenhagen. Stuck ...
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... political, or between the philosophical and the geographic. Many of Coralnik's essays explore the bewildering variety of political choices facing Jews during this period, and many are striking in their prescience about the fate of ...
... political, or between the philosophical and the geographic. Many of Coralnik's essays explore the bewildering variety of political choices facing Jews during this period, and many are striking in their prescience about the fate of ...
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... political and philosophical personality — especially, as in the case of Karl Marx, when they came together in the ... politics, essays like “Marx and the Manifesto” and “Pierre-Joseph Proudhon: The Pathos of Justice,” for all their ...
... political and philosophical personality — especially, as in the case of Karl Marx, when they came together in the ... politics, essays like “Marx and the Manifesto” and “Pierre-Joseph Proudhon: The Pathos of Justice,” for all their ...
Contents
Zionism and the Land of Israel | 121 |
The Religious Experience | 185 |
Texts and Histories | 247 |
Travels in Europe | 361 |
Travels in the Americas | 415 |
A Detour to Egypt | 477 |
About the Author | 495 |
Back Cover | 497 |
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