Passionate Women, Passive Men by Janet Hadda Dictionaries spice and wit

spice and wit

suburban American teens

Originally published between 1944 and 1953

For the Polish Jews after the Holocaust

on American society

Passionate Women, Passive Men by Janet Hadda Dictionaries spice and witSuicide 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