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Chaim Grade. 4.35. 71 ratings13 reviews. Tsemakh Atlas, torn between his commitment to the ascetic life of the yeshiva community and his natural longings, tries to protect his students from the earthy villagers of Valkenik. Genres Fiction Historical Fiction Judaism Jewish Literature. 394 pages, Hardcover.
- Yeshiva Volumes I and II by Chaim Grade | Goodreads
Grade somewhat idealised his teacher the Chazon Ish, and he...
- Yeshiva Volumes I and II by Chaim Grade | Goodreads
Focus on Chaim Grade. An Introductory Essay by Ezra Glinter, Newly Digitized Yiddish Books, and a Guide to Works in Our Collections. Chaim Grade’s life and work spanned poetry and prose, Europe and America, pre- and post-Holocaust life, both the religious and secular worlds. As the product of intense Talmudic training who eventually turned to ...
Grade somewhat idealised his teacher the Chazon Ish, and he comes across in the book as a wise and balanced person, an island in a stormy world. Grade left his faith when the Chazon Ish moved to Palestine, and the letter he wrote to him from Vilna in 1934, in wretched poverty, touches the heart with its desparate need for approval. Yet the ...
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Bobbs-Merrill, 1977 - Fiction - 399 pages. The Yeshiva: Masters and Disciples is the second and concluding volume of Chaim Grade's masterwork. Continuing the moving story of Tsemakh Atlas, head of the Yeshiva, Grade re-creates the rich world of his native city Vilna in pre-World War II Lithuania. The now-vanished Eastern European Jewish ...
The Yeshiva. , Volume 1. Chaim Grade. Bobbs-Merrill, 1976 - Fiction - 394 pages. [The author is the] winner of the Jewish Book Council's award for best novel of 1978 ... [The novel] does not concern itself with the interaction between the Jewish communities of Eastern Europe and the hostile non-Jewish communities that surrounded the, but rather ...
Chaim Grade was born in Vilna, the Jerusalem of Lithuania, in 1910 and died in what for him was exile, in New York City, in 1982. His father was a maskil, a moderately enlightened Jew who studied the Bible with Moses Mendelssohn’s commentary, and his mother was a pious woman who recited tekhines and read the Tsena-Urena (Yiddish prayers and homilies on the Chumash for women).
Grade was born in Vilna, Poland, where he received a thorough education in the talmudic academies of the region. He began writing poetry in 1932 and soon won literary recognition. He escaped the Nazi onslaught as a refugee in the Soviet Union, only to return to Poland after the war to find his mother and wife killed and his hometown destroyed.
