Publication

2000 - Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, N.Y, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

107,500 words, Guess

Page Count

430 pages

Identifiers

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  • LibraryThing821

Classifications

  • DDC839/.134
  • LCCPJ5129.R597 B5813 2000

Description

"Rosenfarb follows the destinies of characters from several walks of life in the shtetl. Her primary characters are the scribe's widow Hindele, her son Yacov, the chalk vendor Yossele Abedale, and his daughter Binele. Jewish relations with neighboring Catholics are generally civil, if complicated. Despite living next door to a convent, Hindele finds the nuns' behavior implacably alien.". "Her characters and portrait of the preurban, pre-Holocaust world ring true. Yet even in isolated Bociany, new ideas - socialism, Zionism, Polish nationalism, secularism - began to challenge the shtetl's traditional agrarian and mercantile economy."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • The library of modern Jewish literature

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