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Moshkeleh the Thief
- A Rediscovered Novel
Engelsk Paperback
Moshkeleh the Thief
- A Rediscovered Novel
Engelsk Paperback

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This first English translation of Sholom Aleichem’s rediscovered novel, Moshkeleh the Thief, has a riveting plot, an unusual love story, and a keenly observed portrayal of an underclass Jew replete with characters never before been seen in Yiddish literature. The eponymous hero, Moshkeleh, is a robust chap and horse thief. When Tsireleh, daughter of a tavern keeper, flees to a monastery with the man she loves-a non-Jew she met at the tavern-the humiliated tavern keeper’s family turns to Moshkeleh for help, not knowing he too is in love with her. For some unknown reason, this innovative novel does not appear in the standard twenty-eight-volume edition of Sholom Aleichem’s collected works, published after his death. Strikingly, Moshkeleh the Thief shows Jews interacting with non-Jews in the Russian Pale of Settlement-a groundbreaking theme in modern Yiddish literature. This novel is also important for Sholom Aleichem’s approach to his material. Yiddish literature had long maintained a tradition of edelkeyt, refinement. Authors eschewed violence, the darker side of life, and people on the fringe of respectability. Moshkeleh thus enters a Jewish arena not hitherto explored in a novel.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
277
ISBN-13:
9780827615151
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0827615159
Udg. Dato:
1 sep 2021
Længde:
9mm
Bredde:
228mm
Højde:
153mm
Forlag:
Jewish Publication Society
Oplagsdato:
1 sep 2021
Forfatter(e):
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