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DECEMBER 4 & 5 MICHAEL CASEY in person and trunk show, from 10 to 4
Couture Salon
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Galleria Collections
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Jewry's Role in
Human Affairs
A LITERARY LEGACY
Not until the 19th Century did secular literature earnestly enter the Jewish
mainstream in Europe and America. A chorus of voices was then heard, those of
Jewish writers and poets within whose ranks were nine winners of Nobel Prizes for
Literature: German author Paul Heyse (1910); poet Nelly Sachs and novelist Shmuel
Agnon (jointly in 1966); Isaac Bashevis Singer (1978); playwright/novelist Elias
Canetti (1981); and Joseph Brodsky (1987), also America's fifth Poet Laureate in
1991. And others:
HENRI BERGSON
(1859-1941) b. Paris, France Phil-osopher
The
"mystical" attributes he delegated to mind and matter
have permeated much of modern philosophy and
influenced literature. His writings stressed the impor-
tance of the elan vital (vital impulse), opposed to a
static, purely scientific view of nature and evolutionary
change. Bergson reasoned that individuals may perceive
matter through intellect but sense the life force and re-
ality of time through intuition. One of the most original thinkers of the 20th Century,
the College de France professor was elected to the French Academy in 1914 and
received the Nobel Prize for Literature three years later.
BORIS PASTERNAK
(1890-1960) b. Moscow, Russia Poet/Novelist After
studying the law, music and philosophy, Pasternak took
up the pen and published several outstanding volumes of
imaginative, lyrical poetry (1917, 1922) that established
his literary reputation. Although he earlier supported
the Soviet revolution, his disenchantment with Stalinism
came to be mirrored in political poetry and short stories.
Denounced and barred from publication, Pasternak turn-
ed to translation and criticism until writing his masterpiece, Dr. Zhivago (first
published in Italy in 1957), an epic novel of the tragic upheavals of 20th Century
Russia. Acclaimed worldwide, it led to his selection as winner of the 1958 Nobel
Prize for Literature which his government forced him to decline acknowledging.
SAUL BELLOW
(1915-) b. Lachine, Canada Novelist The dean of con-
temporary U.S. novelists established his reputation in
1953 with The Adventures ofAugie March--followed by
vivid and original works often concerning the moral
dilemmas of people adrift in an apathetic society. He
was credited with inventing "the first major new style of
American prose fiction since Hemingway and Faulkner."
A short story writer and playwright as well, Bellow re-
ceived three National Book Awards and a Pulitzer Prize for Humbolt's Gift (1975),
followed by a Nobel Prize for Literature one year later. He also authored Seize the
Day (1956), Herzog (1964), Mr. Sammler's Planet (1970), followed by The Actual
in 1997.
- Saul Stadtmauer
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The collected works of Maxim Gorky (a non-Jew), issued in the Soviet Union in
1956, had all complimentary references to his Jewish countrymen deleted by the
publisher. Among them was the writer's report of a remark by V.I. Lenin: "There
are few intelligent people among us. We are, generally speaking, a gifted people, but
intellectually lazy. An intelligent Russian is almost always a Jew or a man with
Jewish blood."
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