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The Street: A Yiddish Novel from Between the World Wars - Softcover

Rabon, Israel

 
9780941423458: The Street: A Yiddish Novel from Between the World Wars
Softcover
ISBN 10: 094142345X ISBN 13: 9780941423458
Verlag: Grand Central Publishing, 1993

Inhaltsangabe

"The Street offers an unsentimental portrait of Eastern European Jewish life, with none of the Shubert Alley schmaltz of Fiddler on the Roof or the mythopoeic grandeur of Isaac Bashevis Singer's fictions. . . . Rabon speaks to us today with immediacy and power, in this memorable novel about a vanished world quite like our own."--New York Newsday

A master novelist of city life, Israel Rabon describes in The Street that peculiar moment in recent history--Eastern Europe between world wars. Day to day reality had shattered into pieces, yet people still seemed empowered with an unearthly optimism. His characters include a tubercular clown, a suicidal poet and his handsome young wife, a circus wrestler, and an ex-soldier who finds employment reading aloud the titles at a movie theatre for an illiterate audience. The eerie power of this book lies in its unerringly accurate depiction of human frailty.

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Born in the Polish village of Govorchov in 1900, the son of a widowed rag peddler, the Yiddish writer Israel Rabon published two novels, The Street (1924) and Balut (1934), as well as two volumes of poetry, Behind the World's Fence (1928) and Lider (1938). In 1941 Rabon was seized by the Nazis and presumably killed.

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Verlag
Grand Central Publishing
Erscheinungsdatum
1993
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
094142345X
ISBN 13 
9780941423458
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
200
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