Unfinalized Moments by Derek Parker Royal

Author:Derek Parker Royal [Royal, Derek Parker]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781557535849
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Publisher: Purdue University Press
Published: 2011-11-15T00:00:00+00:00

Notes

1. Nathan Englander, For the Relief of Unbearable Urges (New York: Vintage, 1999), 27-55. All subsequent references to the book will be made parenthetically within the text.

2. See Arnold Perl, The World of Sholem Aleichem, directed by Don Richardson, produced by Henry T. Weinstein (Ashville, NC: Ivy Video, 1996); Isaac Bashevis Singer, The Fools of Chelm and their History (New York: FSG, 1973); and Solomon Simon, The Wise Men of Helm and their Merry Tales (New York: Behrman House, 1945).

3. Henry D. Spalding, ed., Encyclopedia of Jewish Humor (New York: Jonathan David Publishers, 1973), 122.

4. Ruth R. Wisse, The Schlemiel as Modern Hero (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1971), 10.

5. Leo Rosten, The Joys of Yiddish (New York: McGraw Hill, 1968), 85. The Chelm Story and Holocaust Representation123

6. See Perl, The World of Sholem Aleichem.

7. Paul deMan, Allegories of Reading: Figural Language in Rousseau, Nietzche, Rilke, and Proust (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979), 9. DeMan uses this term to refer to the character Edith Bunker, from the 1970s sitcom All in the Family, in an example he gives “from the sub-literature of the mass media” about the tension between grammar and rhetoric. “Asked by his wife whether he wants to have his bowling shoes laced over or laced under, Archie Bunker answers with a question: ‘What’s the difference?’ Being a reader of sublime simplicity, his wife replies by patiently explaining the difference between lacing over and lacing under, whatever this may be, but provokes only ire.” It even sounds like something that could come out of Chelm. More could be said about the deconstructive impulse in Chelm logic.

8. Nathan Ausubel, “Pure Science,” in A Treasury of Jewish Folklore (New York: Crown Publishers, 1948), 337.

9. Adin Steinsaltz. The Essential Talmud (Basic Books, 1976), 235.

10. Wisse, 11.

11. Isaac Bashevis Singer, “Are Children the Ultimate Literary Critics?” in Stories for Children (New York: FSG, 1985), 332-37.

12. Sanford Pinsker, The Schlemiel as Metaphor (Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press, 1991), 16.

13. Israel Knox, “The Wise Men of Helm,” Judaism 29, no.2 (1980): 190-91.

14. Nathan Ausubel, “The Mistake,” in A Treasury of Jewish Folklore (New York: Crown Publishers, 1948), 326.

15. Eric A. Kimmel, “The Jar of Fools,” in The Jar of Fools: Eight Hanukkah Stories from Chelm, illust. by Mordecai Gerstein (New York: Scholastic, 2001), 1-4.

16. Knox, 186.

17. Isaac Bashevis Singer, “When Schlemiel Went to Warsaw,” in Stories for Children (New York: FSG, 1985), 3-7.

18. Train de Vie, VHS, directed by Radu Mihaileanu (Hollywood, CA: Paramount, 2000).

19. Michael Andre Bernstein, “Narrating the Shoah,” in Foregone Conclusions: Against Apocalyptic History (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), 43.

20. Dan Miron, The Image of the Shtetl (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2000).

21. Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2002), 12.

22. Ibid., 149.

23. David Roskies, A Bridge of Longing: The Lost Art of Yiddish Storytelling (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995).

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