Bociany - Couverture souple

Rosenfarb, Chava

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0815611714 ISBN 13 : 9780815611714

Editeur : Syracuse University Press, 2024

Synopsis

In Bociany, Rosenfarb offers completely absorbing portrayals of Jews and Christians 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.

Rosenfarb establishes an indelible sense of place, evoking its charm and the shtetl residents' ease with the natural world. Her vivid characters and portrait of the preurban, pre-Holocaust world ring true. Yet even in isolated Bociany, new ideas–socialism, Zionism, Polish nationalism, secularism–begin to challenge the shtetl's traditional agrarian and mercantile economy.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Chava Rosenfarb was born in Lódz, Poland. She was a survivor of the Lódz Ghetto as well as the Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps. She was the recipient of numerous literary prizes. In 1979, she was awarded the Manger Prize–the highest award for Yiddish literature–for her trilogy Tree of Life (Der boim fun leib).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Syracuse University Press
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0815611714
• ISBN 13: 9780815611714
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 440
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible