ENGLISHYIDDISH

The Zelmenyaners : a family saga

By Hillel Halkin , Moyshe Kulbak , Sasha Senderovich

Book information

Publisher
Yale University Press
Year
2013
ISBN
0300112327, 978-0-300-11232-0, 9780300188950, 0300188951, 9781283915359, 1283915359, 978-1-4804-4103-3
Language
englishyiddish
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (7089015 bytes)
Series
The new Yiddish library
Pages
304\308
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
Jewish families -- Belarus -- Minsk -- Fiction. Je

Description

This is the first complete English-language translation of a classic of Yiddish literature, one of the great comic novels of the twentieth century. The Zelmenyaners describes the travails of a Jewish family in Minsk that is torn asunder by the new Soviet reality. Four generations are depicted in riveting and often uproarious detail as they face the profound changes brought on by the demands of the Soviet regime and its collectivist, radical secularism. The resultant intergenerational showdowns—including disputes over the introduction of electricity, radio, or electric trolley—are rendered with humor, pathos, and a finely controlled satiric pen. Moyshe Kulbak, a contemporary of the Soviet Jewish writer Isaac Babel, picks up where Sholem Aleichem left off a generation before, exploring in this book the transformation of Jewish life

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