The Barber In Modern Jewish Culture: A Genre of People, Places, and Things, With Illustrations

by Rothman, Irving R.; Novak, Maximillian E.

ISBN13: 9780773450721

ISBN10: 0773450726

Format: Hardcover

Pub. Date: 2008-08-14

Publisher(s): Edwin Mellen Pr

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Summary

THIS ANTHOLOGY PRESENTS FIFTY-FIVE WORKS THAT CHARACTERIZE JEWISH BARBERS, DESCRIBE JEWS WHO ENCOUNTER BARBERS, AND IDENTIFY JEWISH AUTHOR WHO WRITE ABOUT BARBERS AND BARBERSHOPS.

Author Biography

DR. ROTHMAN EARNED HIS PH.D. IN ENGLISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH. HE HAS BEEN TEACHING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON SINCE 1967 AS PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH SPECIALIZING IN ENGLISH LITERATURE OF RESTORATION AND EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY.

Foreword
Precis of the Table of Contents
Introduction
Samson, Judges 16:4-31 [ca. 1150 B.C.E]	p. 1
Tonsio Judaica [1662]	p. 5
The Life of Abraham Israel, a Jew [1735]	p. 9
Story of the Baked Head [1824]	p. 15
During the Epidemic [1905, 1927]	p. 33
Turlupin [1924]	p. 55
Monkey Business [ca. 1931]	p. 67
Comedy of Vanity [1934]	p. 73
Call It Sleep [1935]	p. 81
Di Grasso [ante 1937]	p. 93
Boy with His Hair Cut Short [1938]	p. 99
A Guest for the Night [1939]	p. 103
Reb' Welvel, Welvel & Willy [1940]	p. 109
The Great Dictator [1940]	p. 113
Okay, Mr. Pappendass, Okay [1941]	p. 131
Haircut [1942]	p. 143
Elegy on a Lost Boy [1948-1962]	p. 147
Elegy [1958]	p. 153
The Magician of Lublin [1960]	p. 157
To A Child Trapped in a Barber Shop [1963]	p. 165
The Story of the Nobleman's Mustaches [1963]	p. 169
Because I Was Flesh [1964]	p. 179
A Tale of Yesteryear [1968]	p. 209
A Thief in the Temples [1970]	p. 219
Post Aetatem Nostram [1970]	p. 239
The Nazi & The Barber [1971]	p. 251
To the Barber Shop [1973]	p. 273
Legends from Invalid Street [1974]	p. 283
Shosha [1974]	p. 313
The Book of Zgierz and the Struggle [1975]	p. 319
Fatelessness [1975]	p. 333
Patty-Cake, Patty-Cake ... A Memoir [1976]	p. 347
Severance Pay [1976]	p. 357
The Pious Barber [1979]	p. 361
Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd [1979]	p. 365
The Eternal Mystery [1980]	p. 377
My Father's Life [1981]	p. 381
Woody Allen: American Prose Humorist [1983]	p. 387
The Physician [1986]	p. 399
In Siberia It Is Very Cold [1987]	p. 409
Scissors [1990]	p. 421
Gets the Barber [1990]	p. 429
Catwalk and Overpass [1990]	p. 433
Elegy and Rant for My Father [1993]	p. 437
The Abbreviated and Tragical History of the Auschwitz Barber [1994]	p. 441
Lanzmann's Shoah: "Here There Is No Why" [1997]	p. 445
There Once Was a World [1998]	p. 455
Saul and Patsy [2003]	p. 463
In a Village, Where Even the Barber is Jewish [2004]	p. 467
Barber of Midtown [2005]	p. 473
It's a Guy Thing [2006]	p. 479
The Diary of Petr Ginz 1941-1942 [2007]	p. 489
The Jew of Home Depot [2007]	p. 495
Selective Critical Bibliography	p. 499
Authors' Principal Works	p. 535
Biographical Sketches	p. 561
Glossary	p. 575
Photography	p. 581
Bittman's Vienna Barbershop [1932]	p. 583
Barbers World-Wide: A Photo Album [1967-]	p. 587
Diaspora: Homelands in Exile [2003]	p. 605
A Shave and Haircut in the Middle East [2004]	p. 613
A Snip in Time [2004]	p. 617
Index	p. 621
Index to the Selected Critical Bibliography	p. 643
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