The People of Godlbozhits (eBook)

Leyb Rashkin (Autor)

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2017
Syracuse University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8156-5418-6 (ISBN)

Infos

First published in 1936, The People of Godlbozhits depicts the ordinary yet deeply complex life of a Jewish community, following the fortunes of one family and its many descendants. Set in a shtetl in Poland between the world wars, Rashkin’s satiric novel offers a vivid cross-section not only of the residents’ triumphs and struggles but also of their dense and complicated web of humanity. With biting humor and acerbic wit, Rashkin portrays the stratified society—the petty bourgeoisie, artisans, and proletariat—observing the crookedness at every level. The novel’s brisk and oftentimes lively Yiddish prose and its colorful and irascible cast of characters give readers a Yiddish Yoknapatawpha in all its tragic absurdity.

Autor

Leyb Rashkin (pen name of Shol Fridman; 1903/4–1939) was born in Kazimierz Dolny, where he was the manager of a cooperative bank and of several hardware stores. The People of Godlbozhits was awarded a literary prize by the Polish Jewish PEN club.

Jordan Finkin is a librarian at the Klau Library of the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati. He is the author of several books, including An Inch or Two of Time: Time and Space in Jewish Modernisms.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.9.2017
• Reihe/Serie: Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art
• Reihe/Serie: Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art
• Übersetzer: Jordan Finkin
• Verlagsort: Syracuse
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Schlagworte: Fiction • Jewish Studies • Satire • Yiddish literature
• ISBN-10: 0-8156-5418-9 / 0815654189
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8156-5418-6 / 9780815654186