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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Paperback, 1st ed., 204 pages
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 0299180743
Release Date: Jan 6, 1995
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In Stories of an Imaginary Childhood,/I> Melvin Jules Bukiet inscribes the world that might have been his own if not for the catastrophe that destroyed most of Jewish life in eastern Europe during the 1940s. Set before the Holocaust in the tiny Polish shtetl of Proszowice, each interconnected story follows the young protagonist through the pleasures and humiliations of childhood and the rites of manhood, as he fights against historical, social, and psychological forces that threaten to pull him down.
Winner of the Edward Lewis Wallant Award for Best Jewish-American Fiction
Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction
Author Biography: Melvin Jules Bukiet teaches writing at Sarah Lawrence College. He is the author of Strange Fire, Signs and Wonders, After, and While the Messiah Tarries and editor of Nothing Makes You Free: Writings by Descendants of Jewish Holocaust Survivors.
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I don't know of any other work in English (or for that matter in any other language) that tried to recreate imaginatively the lost world of European Jewry. We cannot help thinking about Proszowice as one of the hundreds of East European shtetls whose population vanished from the face of the earth during the Second World War. This muted anticipation of a devastating future is handled throughout with the control of the true artist….It seems to me evident that Sholom Aleichem and Isaac Babel have been among Mr. Bukiet's models, but this is not an intrusive detail; rather it inspires the informed reader to appreciate his talents and perhaps even genius for developing a vision uniquely his own that bears comparison (favorably) with theirs….An original contribution to modern literature.
—(Lawrence L. Langer) —Lawrence L. Langer
Extremely finely polished gem of stories about the child's understanding of the world around him, how it has been passed down to him, how real and imagined worlds may never be entirely distinct from each other. They are wise, dexterously told, ironic, funny, and sad—they capture both the impulse of a survivor's child to know all that was lost, and the details of this past life as remembered by a father to his son….The only work to which I might compare this collection would be Spiegelman's Maus.
—(James E. Young) —James E. Young
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