Advanced with Yitskhok Niborski: Alter Katsizne’s Ballads: Wednesday, 1:00 – 2:30 PM: July 2, 9, 16, 23, 30
Wednesday, 1:00 – 2:30 PM: July 2, 9, 16, 23, 30
Alter Katsizne (1885-1941) is one of the most interesting personalities in the Yiddish literature of interwar Poland. He cultivated different literary genres: short stories, drama, poetry, essays, and novels. He was also distinguished as an art photographer whose great number of pictures served to memorialize typical scenes of Jewish life in Poland. Katsizne considered himself a disciple of I.L. Peretz. In his book “Ballads and Grotesques” (Baladn un Groteskn) (Warsaw, 1936), he develops in his own way Peretz’s manner of interlacing folkloric motifs with poetic fantasy. In his ballads, we find storytelling and humor, hearty language, fine musicality, and clever rhymes.
Our five classes will examine some of these texts and Katsizne’s unique voice in the Yiddish literature.
Wednesday, 1:00 – 2:30 PM: July 2, 9, 16, 23, 30
Alter Katsizne (1885-1941) is one of the most interesting personalities in the Yiddish literature of interwar Poland. He cultivated different literary genres: short stories, drama, poetry, essays, and novels. He was also distinguished as an art photographer whose great number of pictures served to memorialize typical scenes of Jewish life in Poland. Katsizne considered himself a disciple of I.L. Peretz. In his book “Ballads and Grotesques” (Baladn un Groteskn) (Warsaw, 1936), he develops in his own way Peretz’s manner of interlacing folkloric motifs with poetic fantasy. In his ballads, we find storytelling and humor, hearty language, fine musicality, and clever rhymes.
Our five classes will examine some of these texts and Katsizne’s unique voice in the Yiddish literature.
Wednesday, 1:00 – 2:30 PM: July 2, 9, 16, 23, 30
Alter Katsizne (1885-1941) is one of the most interesting personalities in the Yiddish literature of interwar Poland. He cultivated different literary genres: short stories, drama, poetry, essays, and novels. He was also distinguished as an art photographer whose great number of pictures served to memorialize typical scenes of Jewish life in Poland. Katsizne considered himself a disciple of I.L. Peretz. In his book “Ballads and Grotesques” (Baladn un Groteskn) (Warsaw, 1936), he develops in his own way Peretz’s manner of interlacing folkloric motifs with poetic fantasy. In his ballads, we find storytelling and humor, hearty language, fine musicality, and clever rhymes.
Our five classes will examine some of these texts and Katsizne’s unique voice in the Yiddish literature.