Joseph Roth - Job
Mendel Singer, "a very ordinary Jew, somewhere in a village in the Belarusian regions at home, as single teacher on a lower social level, lives with his wife Deborah and their three children, Jonas, Miriam and Schemarjah in simple poverty. With the birth of fourth child, however, start the calamities that revolutionize his life dramatically. Menuchim, the fourth child suffers from epilepsy since he was born (at the end of the 1900 century.) - The skepticism and orthodoxy Mendel prevents treatment, the healing miracles to they pray, enters not. Jonas and Schemarjah be patterned - and to be Schemarjah, precisely in order to not be with the result that Jonas renounces to soldier - are threatening the pogroms in 1905 in the background and the violence of the Cossacks - and illegally immigrated to the United States. There he manages to earn enough to invite his family. Mendel and Deborah accept the invitation because her daughter is with soldiers and they cover the same as another future disaster. Menuchim must be left behind, partly because so far no miracle occurred and is left in the care of a friendly young couple, the one sold at that price it were my own house. Schemarjah, which is now Sam, provides housing, Accommodation and support his family. But always remains a stranger - far away from the ground, in mehrgeschössigen houses, creaking and squeaking. The next blow comes when Sam, as a patriotic, new, American, in the war drags and then dies. Also, Jonas is still missing. Mirjam is insane. And Deborah died in pain. Sun Mendel Singer is left alone and turns his faith, his trust in God to hate. Thanks to friends, he survived his grief, languishing in a corner and found employment through assistance, humbly and without something to have - and to hate with God. However: Menuchim, healed and alive, a corporeal wonder working as a musician, appears on Passover and redeemed it in some ways out of its misery and give him back his faith in God.
are fascinating in any case, the hammer blows, reflected on the Mendelsohn - hammer blows that can be tolerate with his Orthodox faith, but also partly just because of hammer blows. It is also about integration of (Eastern) Jews into a belief in progress, "totalitarian" (in the sense of complete everything) rule that makes it difficult for an untroubled life on the periphery without "cultural progress". As a kind of late-occurring cultural industrial revolution occurs and people uprooted. While the youth can assimilate (Jonas, Sam, Miriam), while their cultural origins denied, and so goes down, is perhaps even punished. but also the one who is punished, at least perceived as a punishment, as the parents would have the right path and must have failed so to speak. Reconciled with itself - and with his God - Mendel until he sees the successful integration of his son Menuchim. In and through the artistic processing of his background, he creates the Reconciliation - both cultures, as well as his father with himself, even in the rejection of his faith, so his cultural background, yet inextricably arrested in the old remains.
"He has no son, he has no daughter, he has no wife, he has no home, he has no Money. God says: I have punished Mendel Singer, for which he punishes, God? Why not Lemmel, the butcher? Why he does not punish Skowronnek? Why he does not punish Menkes? Only he punishes Mendel! Mendel's death, Mendel was mad, Mendel has the hunger, all the gifts God has Mendel. is off, over, over there with Mendel Singer. " (p.144)
I take the whole exercise as kulturpessismistisches work, matching the late work of Joseph Roth's, but with this a glimmer of hope on the symbiosis of the different worlds, on the right amount of new, which is possible, it is certainly well written compelling -. as short as possible, as long as necessary ...
(17 [Menuchim well will be] 22 [Menuchim did not die], 25 [a word that means all the words], 27 [and sister], 29 [The Czar: at nothing], 32 [drank]; 40 [always the false sayings by heart], 44 [companions of the pogrom mood], 46 [Jonas, like in soldiers], 49 [Schemarjah flees abroad], 50 [homesick for life], 53 [Jonas Pskov], 55f [Schemarjah in America]. 60 [wg Menuchim they can not] go, 73 [fantasies Mirjam]] 78 [subservience; 82f [everything is possible], 91 [waiting] to drive way, 93 [Menuchim feel ... what an idiot ?], 94 [America], 97 [No wonder, Deborah screaming] 99 [languages] at the port of Bremen, 100 [low to the ground Leviathan], 103 [fire burned through the brain] 106! [Lonely in America], [squeak all beds] 111, 112 [Menuchim missing], 113 [thought of the departure], 114 [Sam was a boss], 115 [wait for the letter], 117 [all thought Mac talking] , 118 [Letter on Menuchim], 119 [Letter from Jonathan, a soldier for life], 123 [Faith of an American], 126 [The war broke out], 127 [set out the light off], 130 [also Sam in the war] , 134! [The hair out, because Sam dead], 135 [Deborah dies of grief], 136 [no son left] 137 [America death is] crazy 138 [Mirjam - Down> The devil in them], 142 [his majesty, the] pain; 144! [All gifts of God], 145 [But God was still in her heart], 146 [remember to Job], 149 [God is kinder than the devil], 152 [As an example of suffering], 155 [he is not afraid] , 159 [Menuchim song], 178 [Jonas perhaps as white-garde?], 182 [message: Menuchim lives as Alexei Kossak and healthy], 184 [a miracle: Menuchim lives], 186 [The night of America], 191 [miracle ])
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