Passionate Women, Passive Men by Janet Hadda Dictionaries on American society

on American society

For the Polish Jews after the Holocaust

With impressive scholarship and a riveting sense of detail

Neither of them could know this was the first of one hundred Saturdays over the course of six years that they would spend in each other’s company

Originally published between 1944 and 1953

Passionate Women, Passive Men by Janet Hadda Dictionaries on American societySuicide is always a controversial issue. Among Jews, it is often taboo. Stereotypically, Jews do not commit suicide; certainly, they do not discuss it. Passionate Women, Passive Men: Suicide in Yiddish Literature challenges this perception, exploring the problem of suicide through a series of literary case studies. Hadda investigates the lives of these fictional suicides, asking the question: What could be so wrong in a person's life that