Passionate Women, Passive Men by Janet Hadda Dictionaries Alexander Ziskind Gurwitz made the

Alexander Ziskind Gurwitz made the bold decision to emigrate with his wife and four children from southeastern Ukraine in Tsarist Russia to begin a new life in Texas

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Originally published between 1944 and 1953

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Passionate Women, Passive Men by Janet Hadda Dictionaries Alexander Ziskind Gurwitz made theSuicide 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